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"The language, as the thought, comes from the arithmetical binary functioning of our brain. We classify in yes and not, positive and negative (…) The insufficiency of language is evident and strongly deplores. But, what about the insufficiency of the binary intelligence itself? The internal existence, the essence of things escapes from it (…) To achieve it, should change his status, it would be necessary that other machines that the usual ones were putting to work in the brain, that the binary reasoning were replaced by an analogical conscience that assumes the forms and assimilates the inconceivable rhythms of these deep structures…" [1].[1] CORTÁZAR, Julio. Hopscotch
In opposite to the thought of similarity, Deleuze raises a thought of difference. A thought that, instead of recognizing and associate the similar things, recognize what is different and thinks it singularly. "The freeing of difference requires thought without contradiction, without dialectics, without negation; thought that accepts divergence; affirmative thought whose instrument is disjunction; thought of the multiple-of the nomadic and dispersed multiplicity that is not limited or confined by the constraints of the same" [1] According to Foucault, in his essay devoted to Deleuze’s thought, there are two main factor impeding to think the difference: 1. Subjection to common sense, which recognizes the similar, divides and characterizes. 2. Subjection to categories that "suppress anarchic difference, divide differences into zones, delimit their rights, and prescribe their task of specification with respect to individual beings" [2] It is necessary to design an "acategorical thought".
Both thought of the outside and thought of the difference reveal panoramas quite gloomy. We understand where they go, but we are really far from applying them. Undoubtedly the subordination to the positive floor of the current thought is so big that we only glimpse the possibility of another thought, still dark. There are open questions: how to leave the thought of the similarity by a thought that values the difference? How to accede to a thought freed of the subject control?
"The language, as the thought, comes from the arithmetical binary functioning of our brain. We classify in yes and not, positive and negative (…) The insufficiency of language is evident and strongly deplores. But, what about the insufficiency of the binary intelligence itself? The internal existence, the essence of things escapes from it (…) To achieve it, should change his status, it would be necessary that other machines that the usual ones were putting to work in the brain, that the binary reasoning were replaced by an analogical conscience that assumes the forms and assimilates the inconceivable rhythms of these deep structures…" [1]
