D + G
Not Dolce and Gabbana but Deleuze and Guattari.
The masters of the non-dendro-centric rhizome. Can the inseperable internality of the authorial polypersona not impact on our essentially biunivocal responses? Meccanosphere.
Did that make any sense? If so then you don't need to read the rest of this entry. In fact you're probably not going to be reading this blog. And well done on that decision.
Below is the ultimate D+G I have found so far. If you can tell me what it means please let me know.
'A field of anuses, just like a pack of wolves. Does not the child, on the periphery, hold onto the wolves by his anus? The jaw descends to the anus. Hold on to those wolves by your jaw and your anus. The jaw is not a wolf jaw, it's not that simple; jaw and wolf form a multiplicity that is transformed into eye and wolf, anus and wolf, as a function of other distances, at other speeds, with other multiplicities, between threshholds.'
Oh yes. Read it again. Do you get a strange feeling that this does make sense, but that you can't quite get it? I think D+G have hit on a brilliant formula. They have some excellent ideas - using Dumezil's bipolar political structure (priest/king) and then adding a third structure (the Nomad War Machine) is brilliant. The problem is that they push these ideas to the limits of sense, which is admirable. It's just that most radical thinkers like them have the courtesy to compress and edit these ideas again before publishing.
Anyway I highly recommend A Thousand Plateaus. Go for it and let me know if you ever did hold onto the wolf, via jaw or anus or even both...
The masters of the non-dendro-centric rhizome. Can the inseperable internality of the authorial polypersona not impact on our essentially biunivocal responses? Meccanosphere.
Did that make any sense? If so then you don't need to read the rest of this entry. In fact you're probably not going to be reading this blog. And well done on that decision.
Below is the ultimate D+G I have found so far. If you can tell me what it means please let me know.
'A field of anuses, just like a pack of wolves. Does not the child, on the periphery, hold onto the wolves by his anus? The jaw descends to the anus. Hold on to those wolves by your jaw and your anus. The jaw is not a wolf jaw, it's not that simple; jaw and wolf form a multiplicity that is transformed into eye and wolf, anus and wolf, as a function of other distances, at other speeds, with other multiplicities, between threshholds.'
Oh yes. Read it again. Do you get a strange feeling that this does make sense, but that you can't quite get it? I think D+G have hit on a brilliant formula. They have some excellent ideas - using Dumezil's bipolar political structure (priest/king) and then adding a third structure (the Nomad War Machine) is brilliant. The problem is that they push these ideas to the limits of sense, which is admirable. It's just that most radical thinkers like them have the courtesy to compress and edit these ideas again before publishing.
Anyway I highly recommend A Thousand Plateaus. Go for it and let me know if you ever did hold onto the wolf, via jaw or anus or even both...
posted by Dark Hunter at
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
1 Comments:
These two always cropped up in my reading lists. I would lie if i said that they made complete sense. I had to read them to often that I wonder how I ended up getting a degree without actually understanding them.
Loved the quote though.
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