Friday, June 13, 2008

Notations on Various Conditions

While ordering the beginning of the day I was forced to think on various topics while reading Deleuze and Guattari's "War Machine":
  1. Relationship does not belong to the order of the state: it is not observable. Relationship is always imperceptible, a form of magic outside of the surveillance of the state.
  2. Desire cannot be forced: desire cannot be regulated. This is the fundamental element where desire and relationship are not obtainable through the state apparatus.
  3. Deleuze and Guattari have yet to (and never will in this form) comprehend the relationship to the feminine, Isis and Asherah. There is something about their psychology that remains dry, spirited, but somehow unwilling to deal with all the anima attachments that tend to drag us backward--- it is too big a question for Deleuze and Guattari, and for Foucault, who tended to work on the issues of the shadows of relationship through power: they did not understand that the desire behind this is painfully part of the state organization itself: that the state is not uniformly counter to desire... even though they admitted to micro-fasciscular forms of power and organization... the argument was not developed enough. I do not want to call the missing element "the Feminine" because that definitely rings wrong in this instance. I can call it soul. They lack soul.
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
  5. Bob Dylan's "Isis" is about as close to a non-Oedipal description of desire. If it is Oedipal, then it is a matter of passing through Oedipus, not of being reducible to a psychoanalytic model by any stretch of the imagination.
  6. I am thinking of "Snow Crash" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash by Neal Stephenson. Stephenson is rather blind when it comes to politics, but his theory is that the cult of Ashera spread a sort of venerial virus that blocked out thinking.
  7. Isis is associated with the development of the city state: at least as is discussed in Jung (who may be a psychologist of the state, but nevertheless is a heavy influence in terms of his capacity for developing relationship in the most profound sense between various conditions: incarcerated, small, captured and also large, kowledgeable, infinite and so on... and his use of dreams): Jung discusses the "Mural Crown" of Isis representing the city walls.
  8. The City walls represent order and regulation of flows (of desire, commerce, etc.): various means of police/polis. When a city is stormed by nomadic forces of desire it is said to be raped, violated as a woman is violated.
  9. The State apparatus sets in and defines and controls, orders and reifies only so long as there is soul.
  10. Love labors, "alienated labor" (Marx) ("Arbeit") represents the point where the demands of love reach a crisis: work ("Werga," "Werk") and desire, which are freely given turn restlessly at the point of becoming alienated from desire.
  11. I am working in a modality where I stand as a "man of state" with his letters and authority (It is the set up of "middle management"), and yet I understand that the interface is through relationship and connection. I bring my employees together: and yet desire cannot be forced. The employees are resistant to the idea of forced relating. The result is that the war machine slips out of my dominion....

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