The philosophy of Deleuze is best known as a continuous creation of machinic apparatuses aimed at transforming the figurative conception in which applicative forms and models sediment. The geological metaphor is thus not merely arbitrary. It is tied to a real encounter between the possibilities of creative movements of folds and the very folds considered as formal reliefs. One can thus reasonably suppose that, in the philosophy of Deleuze, simulacrum is the first of these generating forms. In this article, we will try to follow how Deleuze analyzes simulacrum in his two fundamental essays about Plato and Lucretius.
Machinic apparatuses; Fold; Simulacrum