This blog continues extends the work of becomings in the Fictions of D&G blogs__ examine&explore the text of A/O but not limit ourselves __ invention and connection stammer stutter __ perform interactions on A/O and oTHER tEXTS oUTside.Language is a machine bodywithoUtOrgans__ Experiment Invent, never interpret. How does the machine work, how does one plug a blog into a famous book, that is itself a translation from another language, another machine, the French language_pragmanticism.
A breath of fresh air, a relationship with the outside world. Lenz's stroll, for example, as reconstructed by Buchner.
This walk outdoors is
different from the moments when Lenz finds himself closeted with his pastor, who forces him to situate himself socially, in relationship to the God of established religion, in relationship to his father, to his mother. While taking a
stroll outdoors, on the other hand, he is in the mountains, amid falling snowfiakes, with other gods or without any gods at all, without a family, without a father or a mother, with nature.
"What does my father want? Can he offer me more than that? Impossible. Leave me in peace."1
Everything is a machine. Celestial machines, the stars or rainbows in the sky, alpine machines— all of
them connected to those of his body.
The continual whirr of machines.
"He
thought that it must be a feeling of endless bliss to be in contact with the profound life of every form, to have a soul for rocks, metals, water, and plants, to
take into himself, as in a dream, every element of nature, like flowers that breathe with the waxing and waning of the moon."
To be a chlorophyll- or a
photosynthesis-machine, or at least slip his body into such machines as one part
among the others.
Lenz has projected himself back to a time before the
man-nature dichotomy, before all the co-ordinates based on this fundamental dichotomy have been laid down.
He does not live nature as nature, but as a process of production. There is no such thing as either man or nature now, only a process that produces the one within the other and couples the machines together.
Producing-machines, desiring-machines everywhere, schizophrenic machines, all of species life: the self and the non-self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever.
If yer anaoedipal there's no need for truck s Mister ______ the knight walks her vein. Bubbled the paths of random and her canonicity is guaranteed by city and councils, docile codicils marking the moment ~ Everything revealed ~ the show unmasked .
Personafictatives of delire de lire to read of read yes the falling water of ____________________________________________ Word is out Ghost of Deleuze and Guattari and en personne le clandestine Eric Allieze will be there at your dissertation defence. Almost Doctorat Doctor le Différence Docteur Duffee Duffee is that the le peintre? Oh my Word O mon dieux ! en deux dieux . Defence for the defenestrater! et non pas les défenestrations. Defence defenestrations et , non Or, or yes, yes Or gold Or Ok. so say defence d'or deleuze guattari milton waste land paradise lost eliot eloquence revision d i v i s i o s n s. Not quite a Parasol de Parsifal, eh, Non! Duffy: when is the defence Deleuze Prof. Challenger : as Monsieur Ritournelo Felix: Ask Clifford.
___________ Seem you 'got to spelll épelez? pliez? is that It Alliez? on va allez alliez.
Well we have no A/O on hand! O mY Dieuz en deux! Quelle Effluence Défense revanche a ces hanches! He wants to hold her hanches!
O
O
O
O
______________ Exit stage right blogger, fatigue, work, almost. not undone reterritorialize et deterritorialize .
Go to Sleep Stu_dent[as indent indent indentindent you fool!] Duff yer brain is a cendre de feu fatigue .
Je suis pas étudiant ni
a cacadémiq ue just justjuste justee poète ....
Sweet Lady Mrs Assemblage send [go to his futon with yer legs spread bed bed spread] him to his futon toute-de-suite s'il te plait ~ . s'il vous plaît =======================================
resending sent . consent . recursive return. dust felt pen. lap around the storm . of yer room _________________________________________________________________ "A deliberately poetic vocabulary, a record of ideas incompatible with common speech, would be a different matter, however. The world of appearances is complicated, and language has only verbalized a
miniscule part of its potential, indefatigable combinations. Why not create a word, only one, for the converging perception of the cow bells announcing day's end and the sunset in the distance? Why not invent another for the dilapidated and threatening face of the streets at dawn? And another for the
well-meaning though pitifully ineffectual, first streetlamp to go on at dusk while it is still light out? And another for our lack of trust in ourselves after we have done wrong?" (JLB, 1926)
There is no whole self. Any of life's present situations is seamless and sufficient.
Are you, as you ponder these disquietudes, anything more than an indifference gliding over the argument I make, or an appraisal of the opinions I expound?"
(Jorges Louis Borges, 1922)
Deleuze from the film made with Claire Parnet _L' ABCdaire __ summarized by Professor Charles Stivale. The section I have excerpted is near the end of the Letter A_ Deleuze expanads expounds on barbaric words, words coined from other words... the secret sources of philosophical terms...
"Moreover, one must consider behavior in the territory as the domain of property and ownership, territory as "my properties" in the manner of Beckett or Michaux. Deleuze here digresses slightly to discuss the occasional need in philosophy to create "mots barbares", barbaric words, even if the word might exist in other languages, some terms that he and Guattari created together. In order to reflect on territory, he and Guattari created "deterritorialization" (Deleuze says that he has found an English equivalent of "the deterritorialized" in Melville, with "outlandish"). In philosophy, he says, the invention of a
barbaric word is sometimes necessary to take account of a new notion: so there would be no territorialization without a vector of leaving the territory, deterritorialization, and there's no leaving the territory, no deterritorialization, without a vector of reterritorialization elsewhere. In animals, these territories are expressed and delimited by an endless emission of signs, reacting to signs (e.g. a spider and its web) and producing signs (e.g. a wolf track or something else), recognized by hunters and trackers in a kind of animal relationship.Here Parnet wonders if there is a connection between this emission of signs, territory, and writing. Deleuze says that they are connected by living an existence "aux aguets", "être aux aguets," always being on the lookout, like an animal, like a writer, a philosopher, never tranquil, always looking back over one's shoulder. One writes for readers, "for" meaning "à l'attention de," toward them, to their attention. But also, one writes for non-readers, that is, "for" meaning "in the place of," as did Artaud in saying he wrote for the illiterate, for idiots, in their place. Deleuze argues that thinking that writing is some tiny little private affair is shameful; rather, writing means throwing oneself into a universal affair, be it a novel or philosophy. Parnet refers parenthetically to Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of Lord Chandos by Hoffmanstahl in A Thousand Plateaus. Deleuze says that writing means pushing the language, the syntax, all the way to a particular limit, a limit that can be a language of silence, or a language of music, or a language that's, for example, a painful wailing (cf. Kafka's Metamorphosis). Deleuze argues that it's not men, but animals, who know how to die, and he returns to cats, how a cat seeks a corner to die in, a territory for death. Thus, the writer pushes language to the limit of the cry, of the chant, and a writer is responsible for writing "for", in the place of, animals who die, even by doing philosophy. Here, he says, one is on the border that separates thought from the non-thought."
___ Think of the territory of love, desire at a distance __ the language of blogs __ the space of a page blog ___one medium shaping over and twisting another.
bodies in a distance an insuperable one of mis_placed desire
these days aside or beside being an artist __ worker producer i am working on this 'document' __ about Paradise Lost wASTE LaNd
and the __ mostly the concept of territory and monotheism __ thinkin thinkin yer thinkin like ink aroun dyer scrappage and I am also thinkin' a lot about the desire-machines __ how does one take a reactive machine and convert it into a working part of one's productive faculties __?
think of Salvadore Dali and how he turned his own paranoia into the , what he called the paranoid-critical method __ or other semi-mad artists shaping their folly into a method ___
Sour Orange becomes edible celery__
a little problem I have is __ I dont eat __ I have food in the fridge but leave it there __ I stay at the writing machine overtime __
Oranges 've gone bad in my fridge __ thinkin' of you__the writingmachine becomes a lover writing machine __ O Desire! of ten strengths!
O lyre O continent
__ it's easy to make lyric poems that have no context or float around in the air _ but what happens when you have big earth pounders only say 200 yards from yer workroom and the shaking and pounding stops you from making sentences about territory and Satan and monotheism and the stupid world never stops __ imagine doing this in a war zone? impossible __ for some
these 'earthPounder things' are used to bash holes in the ground so as to Build I suppose condominiums as they're called __ gulag buildings for the future __
'they bash us with gramophones' I wrote once at the end of a poem __
art poetry are always possible but may not always be necessary
'every author creates from a true necessity' Tristan Tzara said this in the 1918 Dada manifesto__ almost 100 years ago gone.
Interesting __ anguish of contradiction __ Love at a body at a distance __
permissive forbidden fruit Adam A and Eve B years later __
____________
this is not the film which is resumed aBLove. but wonderous wonderfully.
this is Gilles Deleuze a Vincennes 1980 _ Lignes des Fuites et lignes de Vie
1980 wld. be the period between the publication of Antioedipus (vol. 1 of Captialism and Schizophrenia and One Thousand Plateaus _ the latter being Volume 2.)
O philo thinkers and would be ones I write as poet. Yes, one writes from the poem. to the _________________________>
_____________________
A beautiful question: What has capitalism done to desire?
posed by a member of the audience just atthe end of the second video
&
Bifo's
reply
re capital
producing
desire
the story
of the
two hands of desire
[his reply]( strikes me as naive
and reverting to something not said nor seen...
while grabbing for something
else)
the quadruple claws
But Bifo Bifo (god of deterritorialization bless him) Bifo's
reply
to my
ears
a complete
evasion
esp.
O you know the dark quarter of desire, shit man,
give me some poetry....
as he seems to puck around
plucking a thought here there
not picking up at all
and going
saying
what to me
are false
strands
from
Baudrillard
(he states as much asserting a legitimacy
to some ofthe former's criticism!~ of the philosphy of desire)
and
reverting
to terms
that compoundFoucault
(Foucault as compassionate Christian!~this is a fracas of a farce Mister Bifo)
and references
from
Hardt's ideas
of Multitude
and he goes
on about self love and to me he is blabbling
mixing old notions
with rather tired ones that dont create but mimic
something
in a pervers e econony
a sort of alchemy
of hope
yes, yes
compassion
and the other
but self
love as he is using it__ we cant love the other
except by way of our self love
shit man ? what is this?
'encounter group 34?' a la palto alto?
____ where is the great idea of abandoning self
and ego
the line the line
of no more I
auditioned to disappearance ~
sounds like late
chrisitanization__ O you Poor Nazarene
if only you heard it ~
Zarathustra
had said you were too young
to understand his ideas
you died too young
yes yes, indeed
too young
too 'jung and easily freudened'
blended to
a lesser
milder version
of milles plateau
visioning of Hardt and Negri
all which is fine
for it is fine
but what it has to say
(re G&D)
thir thrust toward something
Utopic
the people to come
almost unspeakable
far to grasp
in the distant becoming future
of what has been
to bode
is
weak
& vague
and even
I hate to say
rationalizing ....
~
call
it
the
Rechristianization
as the movement
reterritorialization
of the
rhizomatic
idea
~
the problem is that Bifo__Beradi's answer is no answer at all.
Which is perhaps as it should be. ___ but then one has to say, why did he bother to speak __ and take questions __ the pretence of taking questions when all you can say, really, is to speak of your own practice, to say here is what I do, yes, yes, __________here is what we do ____ yes, mix ideas from all over but not from a salad_______but his statement as I understood it, is simply a reiteration of the old one of the intellectual as stimulator. this seems to me a move back __ Seems ___ but is not.
( Sartre articulated this problem much better in his later years, in his essay discussion __ What is the role of the Intellectual _ I think the discussion was with Michel Contat __ the essay is from the series of essays entitled Situations __ in French I cant remember what the English translatiion was claled )
___ Sartre __ stating something along these lines ~ one cannot go back ___ one is already in the atmosphere of present the new concepts and vocabularies .... Hence his criticism (In Search for A Method) is valuable once more : One cannot return to the ideas of a previous generation, or rather a previous epoch's notions_ they have been surpassed by the needs of the time, _-__ the conditions thatproduced them are gone __ and so have their rulers, _____ AND the great thinkers of the Present Moment __> ie Deleuze Guattari's combinatory in this case is what has not been surpassed< __and their efforts of their history and meaning have past _ his criticism was directed a t that time to the thinkers,, so called thinkers really who wanted to go back behind Marx ______(similarly to those who want to get to a time they imagine before the D&G philosophy__ it is not possible becuase the conditions they described have not been surpassed__ if anything we in the thick of them __ even more -- we are in their midst the high peak perhaps to last till the times change and the capitalization of desire continues __ and this is not a simple question of good versus bad yes, yes we know that)___ this Sartre said was not possible and would only produce something that falsely resembled the true idea that had been expressed.... Well, Sartre went on to write the Critique of Dialectical Reason to drive home his ideas further and to demonstrate the action of history and totalities. This is also where I believe some of Zizek's ideas __ especially in his book on Lenin ring true __ _ i dont think Zizek remotely ___right in his critique of Guattari against Deleuze , but I do think much of what he stated about the "left's " pretences were accurate_(albeit he too confuses the pratical and the specific __ No No Zizek dont cry for a so called universal narrative __ its Not the grand narrative we need __ we Do require many (actually we dont need narratives at all ) [we make others] ___the more multiple the better and each to their Own Specificity to create their Own City __[each her own hamburger and potatoe salad with whatever dressing suits yer fancy folks ]__ But he is as i understand him right in his polemic against the watered _ the "left" leaning postmodernist thought as p0tato salad cocktail of thought ___ wha tthey do is not DeleuzoGuattarian combinatories but rather they never look at the becomings and the in-betweens.
its the in-betweens where things happen. Not in the big words nor in the big places. ....
___ So ? So we negotiate eh? Why does Bifo not speak of this? because because because Bifo is a practice not a theory split from its self consideration. His assemblage is the he and his friends have made for themselves in the specific conditions of Italy in the present moment,
Bifo is beautiful passionate and ....
yes yes its possible and desirable to live without inhuman labour. yes, yes, everyone agreees. with this.
How does this connect to Bifo's ideas?
Problems to Pose for oneself :
________________ Read the discussion between Foucault and Deleuze on the practice and theory and how theory is its own practice.
Now Bifo must know this and is aware of it.
So perhaps I am unfair to him, but perhaps it is simply that Bifo is trying out his new ideas, or rather ideas which are not really ideas but that have been practices he has come to use ove the years, and this is good. A praxis has its own idea. its own chaosmosis yes, yes, but then why wrap it up in vain glorious packaging?
But to compromise the ideas of Guattari and Deleuze in this way, to lend Baudrillard's criticiism legitimacy? to babble of compassion for the other by way of self love what is this
? its not the Parhessia of Foucault __ Not surely the fierce Foucault that I know.
__________________ In any event the woman who posed the question will find her own answer because the only questions worth asking are the ones one has posed for oneself or as Deleuze once wrote to Parnet the only problems are the ones one poses for one self that let one get out....
-___________________> A further comment: the problem is how to get out.
if these notions, and techniques he describes aid one to get out to go where one has to go to get where one must go ___ yes,, yes, yet if they return to addled notions of compassion and twisted and perverse replies that are not replies at all, and a return to christian __ well, then it's time to take Guattari
and Deleuze's dear ideas and books to a new store.
but all power to them: Each Desire machine its own Compassionate wheels
if Compassion permits the combat and flight between and desire 's surge then grand
but I think, i have an inkling they are running the other way.
and who knows what is waiting for them? A pope perhaps dressed in red? the red velveteen robes of a new communist p0pe -----surrounded by compassionate troops of love?
Philos
and Caritas
and Agape?
Jesus Christ _____________ as the communist carrier of the hope?
of the practice of everyday life?
___________________________ Jesus the desiremachine captain Hiphop artist deluxe?nein deleuze? while my Guattari gently weeps?
Debord as cribbing Christian?
________ nay nay nay
______________________ we require Le Marteau de Deleuze as Rene Scherer speaks in his lectures of the Same ~ A body without organs of ferocity and mouths open to hunger ____
_____________________ lets not forget that christanity and its compassion killed millions and wont hesitate to do so again
if given a half chance
the only real christianity is the one that does not exist but is treated merely as a polemic.
Yes yes, love Love and Love.
and Desire
but to say O desire has a dark side
O jesus this is Just to Boring to Believe to hear it said again after all these years?
________________Shit man is that all it is ?
No
it is not and cannot be one must find and refind the diction and vocabularies attendant on the new visions.
Give me good Old Sartre before this
____________________________________ Rough speakings of love 's rude body ~
vague tumble dry version of ideas....
and perhaps Bifo is in his bones and daily practice
as I'd imagine he is a practioner of what he cannot say or articulate but his discussion of it is not as strong
I dont know about his books as Ive not read them
_________________
So to the woman who posed the questionhere then is what Deleuze said to Parnet in Dialogues
"If you aren't allowed to invent your questions, with elements from all over the place, from never mind where, if people 'pose' them to you, you haven't much to say. The art of constructing a problem is very important you invent a problem, a problem-position, before finding a solution."
So the replies Bifo gave were answers to his own questions really. and thus my response is my own position place as was the original question as posed by the woman in the audience....
"Objections are even worse"
"The aim is not to answer questions, it's to get out, to get out of it."
Chomsky, for instance, in a recent intervieww said that when he was in Latin America people didn't ask him what he thought they should do or be doing, they told him what they were doing, they showed him in some instances what they do. That was what was important.... that is getting out
People wont stop returning to the question to get out of it.
"But getting out never happens like that. Movement alwayhs happens behind the thinkers back ___ (and Bifo must have known this or did, or perhaps he forgot his job was not to answer questions but to show people how he gets out and where he is in flight ) ____Or
in the Moment when he Blinks __" Get that ? when he blinks __ Don't look But blink
__ was that Man blinking officer?
--------------------
Getting is already achieved, or else it never will.
------------------------------------------------------ but during this time
while you turn
in circles
among these
questions
there are becomings which are silently at work which are almost imperceptible.
We think too much in terms of history ( the limit of Sartre's project in the Critique)
(history is the nightmare I am trying to escape _Dedalus)
( D& G's departure to geologies their ___ attention to stratas & molecules
matter particles
ridges vacuoles gaping gaps...
and Foucault's geographies and
discourses of knowledge & archeologies)
whether personal or universal.
Becomings belong
to
geography,
they are orientations,
directions
entries
and exits
."
So the idea of political change
yes yes Mister Bifo
we know
we all know
desire has its nasty side
the Buddhists taught us that a long time
ago
and we
know desire's jerked around by capital
you dont need
to soft pedal us
that
we're not dumb
You didnt reply to the question
because its not yours
anylonger
and the woman
was posing her own
query with her own idea
and built in assumptions
perhaps ~
But that perhaps has yet to be seen
and her questionand answer
are yet to be heard read and
written
and yer practice
could not answer
it and yes
we know
you are Alice in
Communist land
and its very good
but
dont jerk them around
with vagaries
and bemusements
of a past vocabulary
and
failed revolutionary hopes
and fancy ideas
expressed
by
mister mackenzie
giggling as he spoke
of tryin to live without
working
profess
profess
professers
But please
Allow the Novel InIn In in
Let some Air
In ~
so the Stale ideas
get out
and the fresh faced troops of Others
ones
and
twos
enter
Cause none of you seem to
Electrify these electricfying ideas
that were perhaps
once your own ~
____________
The poet must be a creator
as the thinkers
were
and I recall
Sartre speaking about what he called the
parasites in philosophy
about those
that came after the great thinkers
not the creators
he
doesnt mean
parasites
as
something monstrous
or wicked
but as workers
who are often tired
and press forward faded ideas
no longer fired
by the struggles of the
original inventors of thought and practice
the interpretors
yes,
he calls existentialism itself
one of these
yet he also
says it must be doing it s
job
which is to work
between
yes
between the great ideas
but not to water them
down
and thus
he offered his own
necessary criticism
of Stalinist marxist
dogmatic
dialectial
materialism
___
So to say
O yes,
Baudrillar
d
had a point
oh this is not treacherybut mere trickery
pulling t he
wool over
the eyes
and ears
of the listeners
Because boring old baudrillard
has nothing
but butter in his ears
and
to bring a point
up
when you should be talking
about
Lines
is a backward
loop
and Lope
to the 18th century
becuase baudrillard
was not
a thinker
and you Bifo
knowthatand you know
that Guattari
made this criticism
as well
he held in contempt this notion
of B's that the social
did not exist
that the baudrillardian
simulacrum
was a mere fanciful play
on words
and there's more in that sentence Of Guattari and several others too
than in all of baudrillard's
words
____
and when
the great Nietzsche
's
Overman
spoke
he spoke of
overcoming
revenge
and
holding
in contempt
one's enemies
because one knew one was stronger
and that ones ideas would not perish
inthe vacuum cleaner of time
andthe
watering down
of
followers
-------------------
O
thinkers
ask your own
questions
Do not ask
Old
Man
who've
Lost
their
Fire
Abandon them
before the day is Over
Move on
Get out
Go over
Get past
_________________________________________
________________________________________
I am sure yes yes, I amsure he is a very nice man.
that is not the question.___ there are many queries. One has the assemblages to build. Oneself and the others near by.
___________________________ We dont forgive spelling mister Anti
because yer orthography is a desire. A mesh pulling the wheating times.
Love is what moves your machine ~.
8/01/2009
Anti had no brief with the hucksy hussies of puffed out lacquered lyricisms.
Shewe ---------------------- what fat plateau is that Mister Polar unconscious , is yer invested desire huffed puffed to yer interest? Do the thing swing around its edged. Combine the ripe word with your orchid. this way you make dance happen ~ happiness.
Antigone Mona stood on her head. The somesault self was her berling belonging . She did it better. the words dont far fetch their desire in the time . we live. livid
apple trees. the honey of birds? O the honey of steal.leaves me. strangled. like the walking on the beaches loooking at the peaches.
Mister Anti wore his sneaker. backassward.
Antigone stretched her appled gut. her mucksie sweat ranked to high heavened . alocholed fumed. was her tree. wild? she was a deterritory babe. Indeed. His mother
was family bourgeois son pig of dog. rich bastard.
Antigone had no time to bath. She was gashed to goodwill. its pill of contrail her winging thong. ass lined showed to honey bun.
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