Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:11:13 +1100
Subject: AUT: Re: [AUT] Deleuze & biology
From: Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine-AT-yahoo.com.br>


On 2/12/2004 12:10 AM, "andrew robinson" <ldxar1-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:

> First point.  Biology is NOT important for Deleuze in
> the way this little "critique" makes out.
> 
> Second point.  If Deleuze goes against dominant
> assumptions in biology, this doesn't necessarily mean
> Deleuze is wrong.  It could mean he is pioneering
> something beyond a paradigm shift yet to affect
> biology, or that he is talking in a different
> discourse.
> 
> So all of this is of very little significance.  The
> Deleuzian point is to MAKE ONESELF a body without
> organs - which may be an exercise of desire, AGAINST
> the coding apparatuses of biological "science" as a
> system of biopower.
> 

Then there is the possibility, however remote, that Deleuze is not God, and
that he was indeed deeply influenced by a certain reading of biology, and
that that biology has advanced a long way since he did that reading.

Biology has changed  over the last ten years; molecular biology has changed
a lot in the last five.

Thiago



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