Subject: Re: "Noblesse oblique"
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:14:37 -0400 (EDT)


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> 	Yet, "_comprendre c'est egaler_", even where a "foreground" can be
> focused on, and t/here one throws up the lights, or _luce non lucendo_,
> the shadows w/here fresco's are broom painted (twisted in wax) and
> candled sfumato. Never the "rule", but a measure written upon a
> landscape of steamed up glas/s, by Raphaello's without hands. 
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Before this equalization stand's N suspicion of praise and admiration,
of looking up like the starvelings of life he might say. It is from
abundance and plenitude that a _Twittering Machine_ (KLee, 19220
territorializes "in the becoming-expressive of rhythm [which is not
meter] or melody, in other words, in the emrgence of proper qualities
(color, odor, sound, silhouette...)"  (D&G _A Thousand Plateaus_).
Abundance would be that accumulated inheritence that Nietzsche
describes as a "protracted vision", a growing intensity resulting from
the tension of a multiplicity of drives being held apart, ordered by
the creation of gulfs, of distances -- which according to Nietzsche is the
"chief viewpoint" (see #891 in _WTP_). A compulsion drives the higher
kind to separate, sever himself without the wish for overall change
which would already betray non-affirmative regard of the present.
Deleuze, carries on this viewpoint in a different territory brought
about by the disjunction between code and territory. I could say that
this disjunction expresses an organized distortion, an "oblique,
indirect means of differention [the pursuit of the chief viewpoint]".
The leaping across fluid terrains, which would be the activity of this boat
upon our sea, is itself territorialized by D&G as a lighting flash,
sudden illumination in darkness. What I was getting to before I got
lazy with the oars and drifted, is that this pletinude which one ought
to be careful to think of as a cultural heritage if it weren't for the
forgiveness of folly, is luxury, the surplus matter available in my
life that becomes wasted expenditure like posting this shit.
Extravagant expenditure is a sharing that in breaking apart from
ordinary communication makes up a "literary communism" when the linking
of phrases is a creative event.    
k


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