Post-Foucault
"Frankly, [the definition of a woman] is a problem that lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual system of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women." M. Wittig
“I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.”
M. Wittig
M. Wittig
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"Only one persona was never a truly sufficient explanation of what I truly am."
Eldritch Sonder
Eldritch Sonder
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
H. Bergson
H. Bergson
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Forwarded from Galactocosmic Ontological Disorder (Batzy)
"Deleuze and Guattari are amongst the great cyberneticists, but that they also surrender cybernetics to its modernist definition is exhibited in a remark on capital in Anti-Oedipus: ‘an axiomatic of itself is by no means a simple technical machine, not even an automatic or cybernetic machine’.9 It is accepted that cybernetics is beyond mere gadgetry (‘not even’), it has something to do with automation, and yet axiomatics exceeds it. This claim is almost Hegelian in its preposterous humanism. Social axiomatics are an automatizing machinism: a component of general cybernetics, and ultimately a very trivial one. The capitalized terminus of anthropoid civilization (‘axiomatics’) will come to be seen as the primitive trigger for a transglobal post-biological machinism, from a future that shall have still scarcely begun to explore the immensities of the cybercosm. Overman as cyborg, or disorganization upon the matrix."
"Circuitries" by Nick Land
"Circuitries" by Nick Land
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"It is in this sphere of force relations that we must try to analyze the mechanisms of power. In this way we will escape from the system of Law-and-Sovereign which has captivated political thought for such a long time. And if it is true that Machiavelli was among the few—and this no doubt was the scandal of his “cynicism”—who conceived the power of the Prince in terms of force relationships, perhaps we need to go one step further, do without the persona of the Prince, and decipher power mechanisms on the basis of a strategy that is immanent in force relationships."
M. Foucault; The Deployment of Sexuality
M. Foucault; The Deployment of Sexuality
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"confidence is felt on the basis of experience and will be different for every individual. [...]
the institutional object, like the transitional object, represents all the phenomena associated with contextualizing the psychotherapeutic cure and foregrounding the environment.
The question of confidence is just as vital for Guattari.
[...]
Despite themselves, psychiatric hospitals produce illness rather than treat it.
The institutional object is known by means of group subjectivity, and the innovative conceptual tool used to pose the question is transversality."
G. Genosko; The Life and Work of Felix Guattari(From Trasference to Transversality)
the institutional object, like the transitional object, represents all the phenomena associated with contextualizing the psychotherapeutic cure and foregrounding the environment.
The question of confidence is just as vital for Guattari.
[...]
Despite themselves, psychiatric hospitals produce illness rather than treat it.
The institutional object is known by means of group subjectivity, and the innovative conceptual tool used to pose the question is transversality."
G. Genosko; The Life and Work of Felix Guattari(From Trasference to Transversality)
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"Subjectivity is a group phenomenon. It is completely deindividuated and depersonalized and ecologized, a consequence of foregrounding the social environment of the institution. There are different kinds of subjectivity, but they are always of the group. Subjectivity involves, then, non-predetermined interrelations, non-linear and non-logical 'evolution', and the production of differences. [...]
Guattari also developed a sense of the between, the potential space. [...] Transversality is explicitly a creature of the middle. Guattari places the greatest emphasis on the potential as in virtual: it isn't contained in the actual and isn't constrained by typical dyadic frames(analyst-analysand)[...]
It is, rather, a space in which becomings are truly creative— radically open and simply not what is now actual."
G. Genosko; The Life and Work of Felix Guattari(From Trasference to Transversality)
Guattari also developed a sense of the between, the potential space. [...] Transversality is explicitly a creature of the middle. Guattari places the greatest emphasis on the potential as in virtual: it isn't contained in the actual and isn't constrained by typical dyadic frames(analyst-analysand)[...]
It is, rather, a space in which becomings are truly creative— radically open and simply not what is now actual."
G. Genosko; The Life and Work of Felix Guattari(From Trasference to Transversality)
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