ILN EP 83: Gilles Deleuze

Pat was feeling rhizomatic (whatever that means) so Ben confounds him with the very upsetting philosophy of noted French Postmodernist Gilles Deleuze. This single-lunged pervert developed some of the most Byzantine theories on metaphysics in the Continental tradition. He claimed, for example, that difference precedes identity, upending 2000 years of Western philosophical traditions. In other words, the thing that makes a thing that thing is not its intrinsic properties, but its differences with other things. Pretty straightforward, right? So naturally, Pat and Ben scream about it for the better half of an hour. Enjoy!