"Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. The account of multiplicity given here is indebted to the great clarity and synthetic nature of the first chapter of de Landa's book." Truth & Genesis by Miguel de Bestegui, chapter 8 footnote 16.
Interesting. Let us take a look at page 30 of Manuel de Leuze's tour de force (Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy). Read the passage beginning: "These two operators..." ending on page 31 with "...two essentially distinct mathematical realities." Yes, it is unintelligible scientific nonsense. Now, imagine you are an academic who still finds it incomprehensible, yet who wishes to place himself at the cutting edge of current research (what with Heidegger being 'a bit 90s' and all). What is to be done?
Now pick up Miguel de Beistegui's magnum opus (Truth & Genesis) and begin reading on page 268 "The two operators..." and stop reading a page further on at "...two essentially distinct mathematical realities."
Perhaps indebtedness doesn't quite capture the relationship between the ideas of these two scholars.
ps. I have neither the time nor patience to read both (or either) of these books, nor do I care to type the whole text onto this blog post. Axel did the hard part - ie. trawling through the complicated rubbish - for his dissertation, and he alerted me to the astonishing coincidence noted above.
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Not a fan of de Beistegui at all, but – it's pretty clear here from the context that this is a paragraph that should have been indented as a blackquote and hasn't been. The chapter in question is a mess of blockquotes from de Leuze and commentary by de Beistegui, so . . .
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