Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:42:15 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: Communicating Imagination/ Everything, Everywhere, All At    Once


>>AS wrote in quote from Thousand Plateux: "Thus subjectification imposes on
>>the line of
>>>flight a segmentarity that is forever repudiating that line, and upon
>>>absolute deterritorialization a point of abolition that is forever
>>>blocking that deterritorialization or diverting it."
>>>
>>
>>Now this is just the kind of thing--
>>
>That put deconsturction on the map.
>
because it allows us to start anew  and at the same time not necessarily
engage in a process of negation that would tie us to another tradition.
While the language is unconventionally self-conscious the propositin
contained within it is one that  finds our ability to  start anew oft times
begins  with a re-reading rather than the discarding of the text in question.
Deleuze only acknowledges in this quote that radical subjectivity also has
its limits which are inscribed in it not by its pursuit but by that pursuit
becoming its goal.  In other words when we posit ourselves in the world ,
if  we lack self-reflection we dispite our intent  return ourselves to a
position that claims for its self a fixity. Without self-reflection there
is no self criticism and thus the self can not and will not
deterritorialize itself.  Without this we place ourselves back into a
situation in which we are positing a world  external to ourselves rather
than one that is the product of ourselves and at the same time  we come to
deny that we are a product of our own making as we posit our "self" into
our world.  In doing, this being the positing of our self outside the
world,  we replicate the situation we have told ourselves
we wish to escape. Therefore we do not become aware of the fact  that, that
which we desire to become, which is free to live in a world of our own
making which may  responsed to our changing desires.




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