"‘I’ oppress myself inasmuch as that ‘I’ is the produced of a system of oppression that extends to all aspects of living.
The “revolutionary consciousness” is a mystification if it is not situated within a “revolutionary body,” that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation.
Women in revolt against a male power—a power that has been forced on their bodies for centuries—homosexuals in revolt against the terroristic “normality,” young people in revolt against the pathological authority of adults: these are the people who, collectively, have begun to make the body a means of subversion, and have begun to see subversion as a means for meeting the “immediate” needs of the body.
These are the people who have begun to question the mode of production of desires, the relationship between pleasure and power, the relationship between the body and the individual. These are the people who question the function of such relationships in all spheres of capitalist society, including within militant groups."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
The “revolutionary consciousness” is a mystification if it is not situated within a “revolutionary body,” that is to say, within a body that produces its own liberation.
Women in revolt against a male power—a power that has been forced on their bodies for centuries—homosexuals in revolt against the terroristic “normality,” young people in revolt against the pathological authority of adults: these are the people who, collectively, have begun to make the body a means of subversion, and have begun to see subversion as a means for meeting the “immediate” needs of the body.
These are the people who have begun to question the mode of production of desires, the relationship between pleasure and power, the relationship between the body and the individual. These are the people who question the function of such relationships in all spheres of capitalist society, including within militant groups."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
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Post-Foucault
"‘I’ oppress myself inasmuch as that ‘I’ is the produced of a system of oppression that extends to all aspects of living. The “revolutionary consciousness” is a mystification if it is not situated within a “revolutionary body,” that is to say, within a body…
There is no real difference between the “immaculate conception” and the seductive female of advertising, between dutifully-fulfilled marital obligations and the promiscuity of bourgeois women on the go. The same censorship is at work in all cases. The same will to put to death the body-that desires perpetuates itself. Only a change of strategy has occurred.
[...]
We want to free this living body, make it whole again, unblock it, clear it, so that it may experience the liberation of all its energies, desires, intensities, which at present are crushed by a social system that prescribes and conditions.
We want to recover such elementary faculties as the pleasure of breathing, which has literally been strangled by the forces that oppress and pollute. We want to recover the pleasure of eating and digesting, which has been disrupted by the rhythms imposed by Productivity and by the bad food that is produced and Prepared according to criteria of marketability.
And let us not forget the pleasure of shitting and the pleasures of the anus, systematically destroyed by the coercive conditioning of the sphincter— a conditioning used by capitalist authority to inscribe even into the flesh its fundamental principles (relationships of exploitation, neurotic accumulation, the mystique of property of cleanliness, etc.). Or the pleasure of masturbating happily and without shame, which no anguished feelings about failure and compensation, but simply for the pleasure of masturbating. Or the pleasures of shaking oneself, of humming, of speaking, of walking, of moving, of expressing oneself, of feeling delirious, of singing, of playing with one’s body in every possible way. We want to recover the pleasures of producing pleasure and of creating—pleasures which have been ruthlessly quashed by educational systems charged with manufacturing obedient worker-consumers.
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
[...]
We want to free this living body, make it whole again, unblock it, clear it, so that it may experience the liberation of all its energies, desires, intensities, which at present are crushed by a social system that prescribes and conditions.
We want to recover such elementary faculties as the pleasure of breathing, which has literally been strangled by the forces that oppress and pollute. We want to recover the pleasure of eating and digesting, which has been disrupted by the rhythms imposed by Productivity and by the bad food that is produced and Prepared according to criteria of marketability.
And let us not forget the pleasure of shitting and the pleasures of the anus, systematically destroyed by the coercive conditioning of the sphincter— a conditioning used by capitalist authority to inscribe even into the flesh its fundamental principles (relationships of exploitation, neurotic accumulation, the mystique of property of cleanliness, etc.). Or the pleasure of masturbating happily and without shame, which no anguished feelings about failure and compensation, but simply for the pleasure of masturbating. Or the pleasures of shaking oneself, of humming, of speaking, of walking, of moving, of expressing oneself, of feeling delirious, of singing, of playing with one’s body in every possible way. We want to recover the pleasures of producing pleasure and of creating—pleasures which have been ruthlessly quashed by educational systems charged with manufacturing obedient worker-consumers.
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
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Post-Foucault
There is no real difference between the “immaculate conception” and the seductive female of advertising, between dutifully-fulfilled marital obligations and the promiscuity of bourgeois women on the go. The same censorship is at work in all cases. The same…
"[...] we have already begun to create a new social reality which the maximum of ecstasy is combined the maximum of consciousness. [...]
This is the only step that will truly make us STRONG against a system of domination that continues to strengthen its power, that aims to weaken and undermine each individual in order to force him or her to bow to the system, that seeks, in effect, to reduce us all to the level of dogs."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
This is the only step that will truly make us STRONG against a system of domination that continues to strengthen its power, that aims to weaken and undermine each individual in order to force him or her to bow to the system, that seeks, in effect, to reduce us all to the level of dogs."
F. Guattari; To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body
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Post-Foucault
transsexual catwomen from cyberspace.
transsexual bearmen from cyberspace as well.
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LSD-fueled shapeshifting genderfluid dolphins??
yes, not to be surprised, everything comes from cyberspace!
yes, not to be surprised, everything comes from cyberspace!
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"A second of emotion. But it was too late! Something is broken. Maybe there always was something broken between the two of us. But also, has he ever opened up to the other, has he ever talked to anyone? I wonder. He sets himself up as a despotic signifier. Hasn't he condemned himself to this kind of solitude forever?"
F. Guattari; Love Story between an Orchid and a Wasp
(Context: Felix Guattari talking about his Professor, Mentor and Analyst: Jacques Lacan. These words were said in light of the publishment of the seminal text "Anti-Oedipus".)
F. Guattari; Love Story between an Orchid and a Wasp
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