August 2010
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Radio Rhizomatics - Part I:
Often when one thinks of ‘radio’, one may see the figure of the transmission tower, sending out signals across the landscape, a monolith of signal, creating spheres of influence over a large space. But this is only the larger narrative of Transmission, that which has been forced upon us by corporate interests, state interests, all working within the restraints of the dominant...
May 2010
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Deleuze Teaching
Incredible footage of Deleuze working out some ideas for ATP in a classroom setting. French language. -Brian Ehrenpreis
I am Legion
Perhaps it is a personal preoccupation with the history of magik and the macabre that draws me so to the chapter BECOMING-INTENSE, BECOMING ANIMAL. Particularly evocative and exciting was D+G’s discussion of the anaomalous. There is a strong connection with the concept of the anomalous with the early modern English conception of the familiar. The word familiar derives from the latin...
Thousand Plateaus and the Bible--0
What does the Bible have to do with Deleuze and Guattari? One can just as easily ask- what do current events have to do with Deleuze and Guattari? I will speak of the Book because the world today is terrifying.
If it is certain that the Bible is often mentioned in A Thousand Plateaus, it is equally certain that the latter is not simply a work of literary analysis. Today, the Powers That Be-...
Virtual/Intense/Actual
Especially commendable in A Thousand Plateaus is the insistence of the authors on real living actors proliferating experience ever outward. Against the reductive currents of psychoanalysis and state philosophy that seek to hem us in, D+G develop a model of individual potentiality that is not focused on form but on intensity. We do not speak of subjectivities, we instead speak of intersections....
Becoming Schizophrenic
-Brian Ehrenpreis
Demos, Uncertainty, Plurality
A Thousand Plateaus is an eminently practical book. It is a stirring defense of plurality and democracy against state,corporate, and technological fascism, though without ever being overtly so. ATP above all is about possibility. In her Human Condition and Origins of Totalitarianism, the great political theorist Hannah Arendt argues for a renewed focus on plurality. Plurality, Arendt argues, is...
Heidegger Reaches Escape Velocity
Much of A Thousand Plateaus is a shell game devoted precisely to developing a linguistic frame from which its authors can appropriately discuss things too large and amorphous for words. Each time we believe we have localized the correct linguistic framework from which to discuss potential we realize the cup hides nothing underneath it. There are few lapses in the book into Heideggerian...
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Love and Line of Flight
Do you know what love...
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Periphery/Center
1923-2003 (and beyond)
“‘When the pack forms a ring around the fire, each man will have neighbors to the right and left, but no one behind him; his back is naked and exposed to the wilderness.’
We recognize this as the schizo position, being on the periphery, holding on by a hand or a foot… As opposed to the paranoid position of the mass subject, with all the...
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The War Machine and Strategy
May 8, 1945:
“On the plane of consistency, a body is defined only by a longitude and a latitude: in other words the sum total of the material elements belonging to it under given relations of movement and rest, speed and slowness (longitude); the sum total of the intensive affects it is capable of at a given power or degree of potential (latitude)” (D&G 260).
“What...
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1985: “By assembling modules, source...
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