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This is more criticism about Deleuze and Guattari that I am reading as a grounding --- again, brief notes on these.

War machine comes out of Guattari talks that cited Deleuze before they started working together --- was a Lacanian but was critical of structuralism, felt that "the eruption of the machine marks a date, a break that is not homogenous with structural representation." 

"Deleuze... was vigilant about how structuralism could reduce the event to insignificance. He argued against making structure and event alternatives and instead favored their articulation." 

This would be a vital source if I wanted to write RPS about Deleuze and Guattari. Since I do not, I am not sure what I am supposed to get out of reading Deleuze's correspondence with Althusser and about how he met Guattari. Unlike the last Dosse essay, this seems like a further depth for established readers of D&G, not a text I might take in with me to have a toehold. I guess it is interesting to know that the two of them encouraged each other into mutually more radical anti-structuralist positions. And that Anti-Oedipus "Was designed to be a war machine against structuralism," also an "infernal machine" which concept I am less clear on.

"a single plane of consistency unfolding across multiple strata" as a way of dissolving the binary of expression and content. (and thus of signified and signifier? Maybe?) Their goal was "to show the primacy of mixtures and hybridizations." OK, I can see that.

"The desiring machine must blaze a pathway into structures in order to destroy the master signifier defended by Lacanians." I WISH TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME.

"The problem is not the exchange of women... A woman circulates by herself." Hrm.

Ends with "A general theory of flux" which just what I will come back to this if I have time.

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Date: 2010-09-23 03:05 am (UTC)
talia_et_alia: Photo of my short blue hair. (Default)
From: [personal profile] talia_et_alia
I'm guessing they meant some other sort of infernal machine? Although perhaps conceiving of the text as a hoax device might get you somewhere.

(I have been mostly not keeping up with these, sorry to be so very flippant. But one from a couple of weeks ago dislodged some thoughts about gender as an act requiring mutual consent, which perhaps I will write up this weekend on the bus. If not, I will leave this here and maybe it will illuminate someone else's brain.)

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Date: 2010-09-23 02:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sixolet
Gender should require mutual consent, certainly. But I feel like in our current world it's all too often imposed coercively. Or maybe this meaning of "gender" is not the meaning of "gender" I am thinking of.

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Date: 2010-09-23 04:03 am (UTC)
jld: A StarCraft minimap. (hexa)
From: [personal profile] jld
"The desiring machine must blaze a pathway into structures in order to destroy the master signifier defended by Lacanians." I WISH TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME.

ObCrawl: “For too long has humanity been ruled by cruel and disputatious gods! Fly through the various layers of the Celestial Oversphere to unseat those who control the universe.”

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Date: 2010-09-23 02:05 pm (UTC)
sixolet: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sixolet
I had the same thought, in terms of a SF novel, but I think I like your idea better. 7DRL?

(responding actually to the original quote, if wasn't clear)
Edited Date: 2010-09-23 02:07 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)
eredien: Dancing Dragon (Default)
From: [personal profile] eredien
Are you making pokemon-themed icons around quotes from your transsomatechnics readings?

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Date: 2010-09-23 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rax.livejournal.com
Apparently! I get these ideas, and so I implement them...

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Date: 2010-09-23 02:35 am (UTC)
eredien: Dancing Dragon (Default)
From: [personal profile] eredien
That is an awesome idea to implement.

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Date: 2010-09-23 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ab3nd.livejournal.com
Did I give you my copy of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials?

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