Immanence and Collage Heuristics

This paper explores the pedagogical affordances and limitations of the philosophy of immanence, and by extension, the concepts of multiplicity and the virtual as elaborated by Deleuze and Guattari (1983, 1994) through collage. By elaborating the collage onto-epistemology, and an exercise of looking at collage, I will explore how immanence as well as the virtual are interacting pedagogically to co-create (both forming and informing) the viewer. Thus the paper has three aspects, an interaction with a specific collage and an examination of its onto-epistemic principles. Also I elaborate (with reference to the same piece) on the conceptual level and theorize the salience of the construct of multiplicity as an engagement with the piece. Finally, I offer a teasing out of what the pedagogical implications of understanding collage through this lens might offer.