Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 14:29:49 -0700 (PDT) From: AJ Crawboney <dr.crawboney-AT-yahoo.com> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] a close words to Nz and Jussi I found a quote that touches on some of these points that are being nervously fondled, maybe it can help in locating that Bergsonian center...? --- Deleuze and Guttari "A Thousand Plateaus" pg 459-460 "apparatus of capture, "Proposition XII. Capture" [quote] We may return to the different forms of the State, from the stand point of a universal history. We distinguish three major forms: (1) imperial archaic States, which are paradigms and constitute a machine of enslavement by overcoding already-coded flows [...] ; (2) extremely diverse States - evolved empires, autonomous cities, feudal systems, maonarcheis - which proceed instead by subjectification and sujection, and constitue qualified or topical conjunctions of decoded flows; 3) extremely modern nation-States, which take decodeing even further and are models of realization for an aiomatic or general conjugation of flows. [....]. [...] The internal correlation between 1 and 2 appears most clearly in the fact that the fragmented forms of the Aegean world presuppose the great imperial form of the Orient and find in it a stock or agricultural surplus, which the consequently have no need to produce or accumulate for themselves. [...] We find the revival of this form in the Greek, Roman, and feudal worlds: there is always an empire on the horizon, which for the subjective States plays the role of signifier and encompassing element. And the correlation between 2 and 3 is no less pronounced, for industrial revolutions are not wanting, and the difference between topical conjunctions and the great conjugation of decoded flows is so thin that one is left with the impression that capitalism was continually being born, disappearing and reviving at every crossroads of history. And the correlation between 3 and 1 is also a necessary one: the modern States of the third age do indeed restore the most absolute of empires, a new "megamachine," whatever the novelty or timesliness of its now immanent form; they do this by realizing an axiomatic that functions as much by machinic enslavement as by social subjection. Capitalism has areawakened the Urstaat, and given it new strength.(see 58) Not only, as Hegel said, does eery State imply " the essential moments of its existences as a State," but there is a unique moment, in the sense of a couplin gof forces, and this moment of the State is capture, bond, knot, "nexum", magical capture. Must we speak of a second pole, which would operate instead by pact and contract? Is this not instead that other force, overcoding of coded flows, and the treatment of decoded flows. The contract is a jurisdical expression of the second aspect: it appears as the proceeding of subjectification, the outcome of which is subjection. And the contract must be pushed to the extreme; in other words, it is no longer concluded between two people but between self and self, with the same person - "ich = ich" - as subjected and sovereign. [end quote] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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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