From: "Andrew Murphie" <AMURPHIE-AT-pip.engl.mq.edu.au>
Date:          Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:41:14 GMT+1000
Subject:       Re: Deleuze/Duchamp


. As it turns out,
> the organizers secretly followed a second theme, along with others, taking
> as a point of departure "Les Machines Celibataires" and certainly the idea
> of "Flux-coupures" (Flow, cutting of flows)....We talked a bit during his
> lecture about the relation between the "Grand verre" and the flux-coupures,
> and the guy said that although Deleuze and Guattari make no direct
> reference in Anti-Oedipe to it, they knew of it and in some sense were
> responding to it.
> 
You're right. To be pedantic, Deleuze mentions Les machines celibataires in his 
essay in Critique and Clinique on Jarry (p120). So it is there in 
Deleuze's work at least. My French is lousy but I'll give it a go -

     Le Surmale (of Jarry not Nietzsche) is the being of man which 
    knows no more the distinction between man 
    and woman - the woman being entirely 
    passed into the machine, being absorbed by the machine, the man 
    alone occurs as celibate power or being-able-to-be, the emblem of 
    scissiparity, "far from worldly sexes" and "the first of the future". 

A footnote follows which talks about Carrouge's book and Derrida's 
commentary on Heidegger "when he comments that Dasain according to 
Heidegger includes a sexuality, but a sexuality irreducible to the 
duality that appears in being animal or human".

andrew
 > 
> 
> 

Andrew Murphie

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