ABSTRACT
The first determination that comes to mind apropos of Delouse is that he is the philosopher of the Virtual, and the first reaction to it should be to oppose Deluge's notion of the Virtual to the all-pervasive topic of virtual reality: what matters to Deleuze is not virtual reality but the reality of the virtual. Virtual Reality in itself is a rather miserable idea: that of imitating reality, of reproducing its experience in an artificial medium. The reality of the Virtual, on the other hand, stands for the reality of the Virtual as such, for its real effects and consequences. Let people take an attractor in mathematics: all positive lines or points in its sphere of attraction only approach it in an endless fashion, never reaching its form, the existence of this form is purely virtual, being nothing more than the shape toward which lines and points tend.
