From: "hwenk" <hwenk-AT-web.de> To: <deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:15:08 +0100 Subject: Re: [D-G] Deleuze, electronic music and Deleuzian theory of body Hello, First I must complain, that I never had any addiction problems concerning anything. This has been done by adopting good habits and controlled suspense of any addiction candidate. So I may help you only on a conceptual level Spinozas Theory of affects and addiction The theory of affects is started in Part III of the Ethics. We have gaiety, which is an affect tied to raise the ability of action of the whole body and melancholy which is a loss of this ability. Example of the gaiety is the effect of training of sports like swimming or riding bicycle or the real start of a love affair with a long wished woman (or man). Examples of melancholy are a long sickness or the loss of a part of the body like an arm. Then we got lust which is an affect raising the ability of action of a part of the body, like tasting sweet for the tongue and the brain associated to smell and the parts profiting from the energy of sugar. A partly loss of the ability of action is pain, like a hit of a stick. Now we have lot of affects which make lust for one part of the body and pain for other parts. This is important for addiction, for in the case of drugs acting relatively directly on the brain, a longing fore that drug develops according to the conservation of state - where we the used state goes in. I you are used to a warm flat we will not be satisfied with a cold one an try to get a heating in our flat. This trials may end after living more than two years in a cold flat, never getting a warm flat in the meantime. So the trials get weaker and weaker. Why I handle it in such detail is that Deleuze in "Two question on the drugs" cite Micheaux and others stating that after a while of experiments with drugs they got some paranoiac and bad feelings, first little, than more, maybe it stabilizes on a certain level. But here we have the overwhelming lust of the direct effect of the drug on one side and the painful effect for a part diminished by the drug on the other. This is very direct striking with little neurobiology, which was little present at times of Spinoza, but formal neurobiological setting thinking. I have heard that a lot of addicted people say the drug is the only way to get rid of the bad feelings and bad voices talking to them. So it is really of practical concern. To make things not too long and clear that formal theoretic point, I end up here. greetings Harald Wenk -----Original Message----- From: deleuze-guattari-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org [mailto:deleuze-guattari-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Moreno Sent: Dienstag, 20. Marz 2007 18:04 To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] Deleuze, electronic music and Deleuzian theory of body Hello, For my PHD, I am cultivating an ethnographic expression or schizo ethnography on what I am calling the Deleuzional Geographies of drug addiction, treatment, and recovery. I am drawing largely from the works of Deleuze and Guattari's and their notion of a drug using assemblages, Intensive fields, the fold, and black hole spaces. He and Guattari has written some in TP on drug using assemblages as well as in Deleuze's Two Regimes of Madness, titled "Two Questions on Drugs." For me, I am particularly interested in exploring a Deleuzian notion of body change connected to Drug Addiction and Recovery. So I sort of enjoy thinking about the connections between his ideas and Spinoza's ideas on the body and affect as well as his and Bergson's notion of difference and D and G notion of space. Anyway. It may be that we have some similar areas of interest and should talk. Peta Malins recently has done some work on drugs using Deleuze. Maybe some of you have some ideas or comments on any of this material or other. Take Care, -- Christopher Moreno Doctoral Student Department of Geography SDSU and UCSB cmoreno-AT-mail.sdsu.edu _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ 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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