Disparation, Deleuze, Simondon, Heidegger, and the Aesthetic

The aesthetical is the new place for philosophy of individuation, even for rationalisms concerned with this topic, since individuation is more and more finding its territory there. In his book on Nietzsche, Heidegger writes:

"The train of thought continues as Plato interposes a striking antithesis: 'But to beauty alone has the role been alloted [i.e., in the essential order of Being's illumination] to be the most radiant, but also the most enchanting.' The beautiful is what advances most directly upon us and captivates us. While encountering us as a being, however, it at the same time liberates us to the view upon Being. The beuatiful is an element which is disparate within itself; it grants entry into immediate sensuous appearances and yet at the same time soars toward Being; it is both captivating and liberating. Hence it is the beautiful that snatches us from oblivion of Being and grants the view upon Being" (196, Vol. 1, Trans. Farrell Krell).

In this pasage one can trace echoes of Agamben, Deleuze and Simondon, Luhmann and Maturana and Varela. in his magnificent little book, the Open, Agamben had already drawn out the relations in Heidegger's thought between the aesthetic, the animal, and its disinhibitors, that which captivates a being, disclosing a world to it. And of course, Simondon's concepts of transduction, and disparation match well with these aesthetical themes and terms.