Irreversible Incidents of Invisible Forces

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Paul Czerlitzki, Willem de Rooij, Agata Ingarden

Gilles Deleuze once pointed out that repetition and difference in philosophical speculation have always been devalued because they refer – secondarily or negatively – to source material and cannot exist without it. And for philosophy, only the essence of being and existence, and reaching the source, was important. He begins his reflections on these two notions like this: "All identities are only simulated, produced as an 'effect' – an optical effect emerging in the course of a deeper game, the game of difference and repetition."