What is real is the becoming itself, the block of becoming
"Becoming is a rhizome, not a classificatory or genealogical tree. Becoming is certainly not imitating, or identifying with something..."
I love the idea of becoming as an rhizome, a necessary symbiotic intermediary. And I love and agree with the idea that "what is real is the becoming itself, the block of becoming." I think that as I have aged, my understanding of what otherkin is about centers so much less on what I 'am' than on the process of becoming itself. But I wonder if it's right to say that becoming is 'certainly not' 'identifiying with something,' especially when you can become an identity itself; it seems like they're putting limits on the process of becoming, which seems counteractive to the process of becoming, somehow.
"Writers are sorcerers because they experience the animal as the only population before which they are responsible in principle."
Huh. I think this makes sense, given that the writer is a kind of animal when they are writing, responsible as of yet only to themselves (quote from last week's post re: music and hardness, etc.)
.. anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.
In 2012 the rise of the sentient pets will herald the end-times. During the first great shortage of catnip, tuna, and milk-bones, Deleuze will be the first to go. (Read as a dramatic voiceover, superimposed over an aerial shot of a Mayan temple national-Geographic-special style for full effect).
break them, reduce them to relations of totemic or symbolic correspondence.
Why is totemic or symbolic correspondence viewed as a default reduction, a default breaking? Way to other "societies," and way to doubly-other "primitive societies" by first setting them as a possible group apart and then putting them back in the group which reduces and breaks, Deleuze.
terms of strata, this idea of many borderlines mashed together and cut by a "plane of consistency" that can "bring into coexistence any number of multiplicities"
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Date: 2010-09-29 02:20 am (UTC)"Becoming is a rhizome, not a classificatory or genealogical tree. Becoming is certainly not imitating, or identifying with something..."
I love the idea of becoming as an rhizome, a necessary symbiotic intermediary.
And I love and agree with the idea that "what is real is the becoming itself, the block of becoming." I think that as I have aged, my understanding of what otherkin is about centers so much less on what I 'am' than on the process of becoming itself. But I wonder if it's right to say that becoming is 'certainly not' 'identifiying with something,' especially when you can become an identity itself; it seems like they're putting limits on the process of becoming, which seems counteractive to the process of becoming, somehow.
"Writers are sorcerers because they experience the animal as the only population before which they are responsible in principle."
Huh. I think this makes sense, given that the writer is a kind of animal when they are writing, responsible as of yet only to themselves (quote from last week's post re: music and hardness, etc.)
.. anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.
In 2012 the rise of the sentient pets will herald the end-times. During the first great shortage of catnip, tuna, and milk-bones, Deleuze will be the first to go. (Read as a dramatic voiceover, superimposed over an aerial shot of a Mayan temple national-Geographic-special style for full effect).
break them, reduce them to relations of totemic or symbolic correspondence.
Why is totemic or symbolic correspondence viewed as a default reduction, a default breaking? Way to other "societies," and way to doubly-other "primitive societies" by first setting them as a possible group apart and then putting them back in the group which reduces and breaks, Deleuze.
terms of strata, this idea of many borderlines mashed together and cut by a "plane of consistency" that can "bring into coexistence any number of multiplicities"
The Devonian Fossil beds of Indiana State Parks