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How does repetition temporalise the space of its encounter? This thesis proposes that repetition is not only a force that unlocks a multiplicity of incidences in both space and time, but that it is an engine of difference.What are the operational means of repetition as an engine of difference?.How does repetition reposition the temporal conditions of the static painted image?.

This practice-based research project addresses what might be considered a reasonably straightforward question: what, if anything, can be achieved in painting from what is often perceived to be a most unpromising strategy for the visual artist - that of repetition? The emergence of repetitive strategies in my own painting practice generated three questions that form the basis of a PhD project that examines the relations between repetition, time, and painting: In this sense, Deleuze’s inverted Platonism can at the same time be seen as a rejuvenated Platonism and even a completed Platonism. Starting from this new conception of the Idea, Deleuze proposes to take up the Platonic project anew, rethinking the fundamental figures of Platonism (selection, repetition, ungrounding, the question-problem complex) on a purely differential basis.

An inverted Platonism would necessarily be based on a purely immanent and differential conception of Ideas. Deleuze consequently defines the simulacrum in terms of an internal dissimilitude or “disparateness,” which in turn implies a new conception of Ideas, no longer as self-identical qualities (the auto kath’hauto), but rather as constituting a pure concept of difference. If the goal of Platonism is the triumph of icons over simulacra, the inversion of Platonism would entail an affirmation of the simulacrum as such, which must thus be given its own concept. The deeper, practical distinction moves between two kinds of images or eidolon, for which the Platonic Idea is meant to provide a concrete criterion of selection “Copies” or icons (eikones) are well-grounded claimants to the transcendent Idea, authenticated by their internal resemblance to the Idea, whereas “simulacra” (phantasmata) are like false claimants, built on a dissimilarity and implying an essential perversion or deviation from the Idea. This article examines Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the simulacrum, which Deleuze formulated in the context of his reading of Nietzsche’s project of “overturning Platonism.” The essential Platonic distinction, Deleuze argues, is more profound than the speculative distinction between model and copy, original and image. The argument analyses works by Baudrillard and Deleuze in order to suggest further openness and the need for singularities to ensure that any one definition of the soul is not burdened with a particular universality. In conclusion there will be a comparison of their views to ascertain how similar and different their conceptions of the simulacrum are and in relation to the soul. Fourthly, its relation to the soul will be examined through his readings of Plato in ‘Plato and the simulacrum’ in The Logic of Sense and the sections on Plato in Difference and Repetition. Thirdly, Deleuze’s interpretation of simulacra will be analysed focusing on Difference and Repetition. Secondly, his conception of simulacra and its relation to the soul is examined in ‘Clone Story’ in Simulacra and Simulation, ‘The Final Solution: Cloning Beyond the Human and Inhuman’ in The Vital Illusion, and ‘The Hell of the Same’ in The Transparency of Evil. Firstly, Baudrillard’s interpretation of simulacra will be analysed in ‘The three orders of simulacra’ in Symbolic, Exchange and Death and ‘the Hyperreal and the Imaginary’ in Simulacra and Simulation.

It will be argued that the simulacrum plays an important role as it undermines the role of the One and enables an emphasis on multiplicity and plurality in its place. This dissertation will focus upon on the relation of simulacra and the soul in the philosophies of Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze.

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