Tom McCarthy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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So, you know, there's this enormously complex kind of recursive structure where it
where, you know, it's almost like there's one pattern repeating at every kind of, like, scales of ten.
Repetitions on pass.
No, I mean, we should talk about money later.
But I think, I mean, sticking with Spinoza, a vital kind of...
aspect of Spinoza's writing and indeed his life is optics, right?
I mean, his actual job beside being a philosopher was- Made spectacles.
Yeah.
He was a lens grinder and he writes lots and lots of letters where he talks about cones of rays and he rails against Descartes' dioptrics.
So Descartes advocates hyperbolic lenses, which focus light onto a single point and light and
Spinoza says this is exactly wrong.
We should think in terms of spherical lenses, which spread lights over multiple points.
There is no one focal point.
It's kind of dispersed everywhere.
He writes...
a letter.
In order to see an object, we need not only rays coming from a single point, but also the other rays that come from all the other points.
What Deleuze says, Spinoza is thinking with light.
They love Spinoza.
He's absolutely correct.
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