Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:29:05 -0400 To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] deleuze and benjamin on violence Obviously I am impossing my own pulse to this discussion and it will be difficult to continue w/o "warping" the mesh-points of this pulse to a meaningful surface... so be it, I am busy at the job logging footage with my eyes and just typing words, so personally it is of no importance really but here goes.... what captivates me is the denial of intelligence behind soveriegn technique. It is not the case that intelligence is removed, its just not there, what is there in its place is something similar to locke's response to the rationalists, experience. The need/hunger for "experience" that sovereignty uses like a battery of power is the realm of re-territorialization. In the first place this need for experience really creates the brutal experiences of life that capitalists call "innovation." The very notion of improvement within the system, is a brutal process that gets lived by many millions of people, so this is something real being affected by a theory. IT is one thing for descartes to address these same things on a blackboard but is different entirely to en-act the narrative upon non-players who just so happen to co-exist with the chessboard of the world. why continue the brutal process? is it so easy recognize the role of capitalism in this equivication that has occured to philosophy's history. . it is one thing to come to an understanding of "experience", and to codify laws based on experience. There is true/honast intelligence needed to do this, actual intelligent human beings who have a universal potential. But the sovereignty linked to capitalist-mechine fat is mono-dimentional, and it does not have room for the universal nature of man's intelligence to keep it running, it requires man's experience to do that. So in this way "conservatism" as a replacement for "intelligence" actually does the job for sovereignty. the conservationist mentality allows one to look at a given "experience" and then merely protect the status quo which allowed for said experience to continue (re: duchamp's endgame) Bypassing intelligence keeps that "fixed", very much like logos/philosophy, but really it is not necessarily true. if the "truth" is questioned with words by an intelligent philosopher, then the infinte virtuals of said experience provide an unlimited number of equivications within philosophic law (again locke "on christianity" circa 1698, is a perfect example). Soveriengty has to only wait a few generations for the next crop of truely intelligent philosophers to stop fight against anti-intelligence and to instead submit themselves to it and go ahead and connect the universals to the growing detentional code. It should be seen that in its parts "blessed intelligence" indeed satisfies the individual internally, but externally the soverign environment remains un-affected and ultimately more complex, as a complex. _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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