Here’s a quick attempt to sketch out some key concepts in The Logic of Sense. As always, I’m reading between the lines for religion and Talmud, in this case in relation to sense and non-sense, fantasy and paradox as modeled for Deleuze by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The connection with Talmud has to do with paradox and the world made strange, with a kind of “atheism,” and with the splitting off of sense along unexpected, multiple and possible directions, across a conceptual surface like cracked glass. If “logic of sense” is important it is because there is nothing more primary than to human cognition and to other forms of being.

By sense is meant not about what is conventionally as “making sense.” Nor does it mean empirical sense-impression. Rather, what sense means in The Logic of Sense is a primary form of expression that does not…