Inspiration is a butterfly

It's singular beauty is almost always appreciated from afar, but when it lands on you it's presence is painfully brief.

I found this particular theory class to be rather inspirational. In particular the last bit of the discussion that started with how we are to guard the variability of our localized environments within a globalized, homogenizing super-structure and ended with the paradigm shift towards looking for opportunites within the negative to propagate hope.

Just wanted to make a note to a concept from Deleuze that was brought up in class today for those us us who didn't catch it (as I'm sure I'll have forgotten by Monday). Jae explained the notion of 'pure-event vs. event' using the metaphor of a hockey game. Each player exists as part of the matrix within the realm of the 'pure-event' but that the player who has the puck is the only one with any value at that moment as he owns 'the event'. This is not to negate the importance of the other players as they (the pure-event) contain the potential to own the event as it shifts from player to player. The event is not the puck nor the player who owns the puck, in of themselves. The event is the hybrid of the player who controls the puck. That's a good way of looking at it as a synthesis between the field of the pure-event and the material coagulations operating within it.

Comments or add-ons, anyone?