image of thought

Thinking can only begin (and continually begin again) when liberated from the image of thought. To illuminate this idea of thinking, Deleuze suggests, “Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.” ⁶ What is encountered cannot be recognized; it can only be sensed as it forces the posing of a problem. The challenge of thinking is not to methodically apply a thought that pre-exists, but to bring into being that which does not yet exist.