질 들뢰즈의 이미지 존재론: 물질의 구성요소와 공외연성을 중심으로

Abstract

This research was intended to examine the meanings and relationships that are altered by the invisible and imperceptible properties of matter in the act of perception. Human free will is not predetermined and has the characteristic of self-creation. This study is meaningful in that it analyzed Deleuze’s perspective that images are reflections of human free will as well as volitional expressions and content. Did Deleuze believe human will to be transcendent of reason, or was he convinced that the latter goes beyond the former? His perspective of free will through images extends beyond the discussion of whether he is an intellectualist or a voluntarist. An image is not only matter that we already possess but also an immaterial component that is out of the scope of our perception. Moreover, it is a form that lies on the border between matter and immateriality, making it possible to capture the immateriality of matter. Given the indeterminacy or absolute autonomy of perceptual actions, an image is not an a priori condition. The image subverts the dichotomous view of voluntarism and intellectualism. The image, which is the object of seeing or reading, and the experience itself unfold visual information while encompassing it along with other sensory information. An image also contains haptic information as elements within itself, separates and combines it with other sensory information, and becomes a perceptual object and a sensory sign. An image is a will that constructs a cognitive process wherein concepts or ideas are filtered from a mass of matter. In this process, concepts or ideas always come and go through a receptor, which maps the intersection, union, and empty sets of image elements. Thinking deconstructs extensive space and experiences a new sensible time. The perceptual action, which is released from the qualitative space and falls into the speed difference of the unconscious, distributes and shares extension and expansion in common. To probe into the free will conveyed through images, the researcher chose the coextensive properties and diagrams of matter as components of this study’s methodology. As extensive objects are deconstructed into intensity, beings have the sensible necessity of deductively inferring the form of an image by themselves as a manifestation of their free will.