"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DARK, AND THE DARK WAS WITH GOD, AND THE DARK WAS GOD"

a proposal for a dionysian-diabolical cosmogony in Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

The following text presents a proposal for cosmogonic and cosmological proto-mythology based on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his work together with Félix Guattari, based on Greek myth. Our mythical-philosophical conceptualization is based on the Greek god Dionysus and his dynamics with the god Apollo through the notion that Deleuze explains – based on the thoughts of G.W. Leibniz – of the duality distinct-obscure and clear-confused. Such duality characterizes the process of updating and forming ideas – both in the sense of the ideas that underlie the cosmos, as well as the formations of subjectivity and philosophical thinking itself – according to a movement of differentiation of the germinal and virtual field of a complete void of form or a priori sense (based on the concept of Eternal Return, adapted from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Deleuze), for an incessant production of simulacra, expressed in the tragic theater of Dionysus in falsifying and masking the original cosmic chaos.