Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault

Penn State PhD researcher (bqd5342@psu.edu); author of two wiki-ingested papers:

The two papers form a coherent program: the MP-Deleuze convergence on Bergsonian foundation, traced at two levels — organic-temporal (2025: passive syntheses, anonymous temporality, multilateral emergence) and historical-intersubjective (2024: encounter, transtemporality, passence of the deep human past). Toadvine's The Memory of the World (2024) is the key secondary interlocutor across both papers, supplying the animal-stratum frame (2025) and the phenomenology-of-the-fossil frame (2024).

Why Décarie-Daigneault Matters for the Wiki

  • MP–Deleuze parallel on organic syntheses (2025): coins multilateral emergence and reads MP's Structure of Behavior alongside Deleuze's Difference and Repetition Ch. 2 to argue that both thinkers locate time-constitution in the institution of signs below the threshold of subjective consciousness. Wiki's entry-point for the organic-temporal MP-Deleuze comparison.
  • MP–Deleuze parallel on historical-intersubjective time (2024): extends the convergence into the phenomenology of cave-art encounter. Coins the neologism passence for the modality in which a singular past-other is given as implicated in the present; articulates transtemporality (rarely thematized in MP scholarship) as the structure of encounter with a double-sided artifact; uses Deleuze's encounter as the load-bearing operator.
  • Internal critique of early MP (2025): the paper's real target is not Heidegger but the early MP — the implicit hierarchy in SB's "adherence to the here and now" (SB 126) that the Nature lectures and Institution and Passivity later overcome through laterality.
  • Synthesizes Grosos, Cohen, and Dufourcq (2024): makes Grosos's voluntary-expression / collateral-trace distinction structural; uses Cohen's mourning-of-Lindow-Man case as the ethical paradigm; deploys Dufourcq's authenticity-as-enacted reading of MP as the hermeneutic register of transtemporality.
  • Confirms and extends Beith's framework: cites beith-2018-birth-of-sense approvingly (2025 fn. 16) and supplies the Deleuzian parallel that Beith's Husserlian-Steinbockian tripartite passivity does not formalize — exposing the question of whether the two architectures are commensurable as the 2025 paper's main undefended assumption.

Scholarly Profile

  • Method: comparative philosophical analysis combining textual reconstruction of MP and Deleuze with engagement of Toadvine (2024) as primary secondary interlocutor across both papers. The 2024 paper additionally engages Bergson's Matter and Memory directly and synthesizes Grosos's prehistoric-art philosophy, Cohen's mourning-Lindow-Man case, and Dufourcq's authenticity-as-enactment reading of MP.
  • Wiki coverage: two papers (2024, 2025). Both are recent; the program is in active development. Future Décarie-Daigneault publications should be tracked.

Connections

  • authored decarie-daigneault-2025-anonymous-temporality — organic-temporal MP-Deleuze convergence (2025)
  • authored decarie-daigneault-2024-crooked-finger — historical-intersubjective MP-Deleuze convergence and the passence / transtemporality / double-sided-artifact apparatus (2024)
  • coined multilateral-emergence (2025) — non-teleological, bidirectional emergence in organic systems where disorganization is as productive as organization.
  • coined passence (2024) — the modality of past-given-as-implicated; positive name for what MP IP p. 57 formulates negatively.
  • articulated transtemporality (2024) — coherent coexistence of multiple heterogeneous temporalities on a single plane; the wiki's primary articulation of MP's IP-concept.
  • articulated double-sided-artifact (2024) — synthesis of Grosos's distinction into a structural typology of encounters.
  • builds on beith-2018-birth-of-sense (Beith) and Toadvine's The Memory of the World (2024) — Toadvine across both papers; Beith for the 2025 paper.
  • reads alongside Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense — the post-Humean architecture supplying organic-temporal vocabulary (2025) and the encounter operator (2024).
  • extends a single-researcher program in claims#bergson-mp-deleuze-naissance-continue — both papers articulate the MP-Deleuze convergence on Bergsonian foundation, at organic and historical levels respectively. Promotion of the claim to supported would require independent confirmation from a different researcher.

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