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- | Notes on Dark Deleuze, Andrew Culp | + | Notes on [[https:// |
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+ | My ultimate purpose is to convince readers to completely abandon all the joyous paths for their dark alternatives. The best scenario would be that these contraries fade into irrelevance after Dark Deleuze achieves its ostensible goal: the end of this world, the final defeat of the state, and full communism. It is far more likely that various aspects of darkness will be captured along the way. Like any other war machine, a dark term is defeated when it isomorphically takes on relations or forms of its joyous counterpart. So it is worth uttering a cautionary note from A Thousand Plateaus: even when contrary, never believe that darkness will suffice to save us. | ||
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+ | .......................................__Joyous__..........................................__Dark__\\ | ||
+ | The Task.......................Create Conceptions..................Destroy Worlds\\ | ||
+ | Subject.........................Assemblages...............................Un-becoming\\ | ||
+ | Existence.....................Genesis.........................................Transformation\\ | ||
+ | Ontology......................Realism.........................................Materialism\\ | ||
+ | Difference....................Inclusive Disjunction..................Exclusive Disjunction\\ | ||
+ | Diagram........................Complexity..................................Asymmetry\\ | ||
+ | Organisation................Rhizome.......................................Unfolding\\ | ||
+ | Ethics............................Processural Democracy............Conspiratorial Communism\\ | ||
+ | Affect............................Intensity.......................................Cruelty\\ | ||
+ | Speed............................Acceleration................................Escape\\ | ||
+ | Flows.............................Production...................................Interruption\\ | ||
+ | Substance.....................Techno-Science..........................Political Anthropology\\ | ||
+ | Nomadism....................Pastoral........................................Barbarian\\ | ||
+ | Distribution...................Nomos..........................................The Outside\\ | ||
+ | Politics...........................Molecular....................................Cataclysmic\\ | ||
+ | Cinema...........................The Forces of Bodies................The Powers of the False\\ | ||
+ | The Sensible.................Experience..................................Indiscernibility | ||
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"We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it... We lack resistance to the present" | "We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it... We lack resistance to the present" | ||
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+ | critique is not effective in its own right, no matter how loudly it proclaims its own right. The only adequate knowledge is activity. | ||
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+ | //[art=] impressions that have congealed enough to become their own mobile army of sensations.// | ||
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+ | the punk ethos of “no future”, which paradoxically recognizes that the only future we have comes when stop reproducing the conditions of the present (Edelman, No Future) | ||
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+ | We know better that to think that a rhizome is enough to save us. Even something as rhizomatic as the internet is still governed by a set of decentralised protocols that helps it maintain its consistency--the drawback being that these forms of control are diffuse, not immidiately apparent, and difficult to resist (Galloway, Protocol, 61-72). | ||
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+ | In posing better problems, instead of trying to solve them, (nomad) science invites a range of potential solutions. | ||
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+ | The Sensible: Indiscernibility, | ||
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+ | The senses think when the boundary between the imaginary and the real collapses. This is what happens whenever the suspension of disbelief continues outside the frame (C2, 169). But the suspension carries on only as long as it is not whittled down to a narrow proposition through “infinite specification” (DR, 306). It expands by establishing a “distinct yet indiscernible” proximity (TP, 279–80, 286). In this strange zone of indiscernibility, | ||
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+ | “Knowledge is not made for understanding; | ||
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+ | The lesson to be taken is that “we all must live double lives”: one full of the compromises we make with the present, and the other in which we plot to undo them. The struggle is to keep one’s cover identity from taking over. There are those whose daily drudgery makes it difficult to contribute to the conspiracy, though people in this position are far more likely to have secret dealings on the side. Others are given ample opportunities but still fail to grow the secret, the most extreme example being those who live their lives “with nothing to hide,” often declaring that they are “an open book.” Some treat the conspiracy as a form of hobbyism, working to end the world only after everything else has been taken care of—the worst being liberal communists, who exploit so much in the morning that they can give half of it back as charity in the afternoon. And then there are those who escape. Crafting new weapons while withdrawing from the demands of the social, they know that cataclysm knows nothing of the productivist logic of accumulation or reproduction. Escape need not be dreary, even if they are negative. Escape is never more exciting than when it spills out into the streets, where trust in appearances, | ||