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graphicality’ necessary for supposition and position to interact(1994, p. 12). In a later discussion of texture and distance, Ginsvoices what I take to be the condition of a destratifi ed yet fullyembodied person:
Von Senden reports that to a blind person who had onlyrecently recovered her sight, a house that was miles away wasthought of a being nearby, but requiring the taking of a lotof steps. In the blind,either there’s no distance or all of distance.Certainly for the deafblind, at least, there’s no perceivingat a distance whatsoever. (Gins,1994, p. 143)
In light of the potential for individuals to explore cross- modalperception and perform resingluarization, John Rajchman’s(2000) discussion of affect in Deleuze is relevant. He notes that,for Deleuze (via Spinoza), affect
becomes the sensation of what favours or prevents, augmentsor diminishes, the powers of life of which we are capable eachwith one another; and it is in something of this same ‘ethical’sense that Deleuze proposes to extract clinical categories(like ‘hysteria’ or ‘perversion’ or ‘schizophrenia’) from theirlegal and psychiatric contexts andmake them a matter ofexperimentation in modes of life,in art and philosophy, oras categories of aphilosophical-aesthetic ‘clinic’. (Rajchman,2000, p. 132)
If Rajchman’s assessment of Deleuzian affect is correct,then language is one of many activities constituting the ecologicalfolding of inside and outside, virtual and actual.4 Selftransmutation