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From: dionysus-AT-bway.net
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:27:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Educational Practice & Nomad Philosophy



>This stuff is pretty interesting and your frankness and rythm refreshing.
>I'll have to think about it. I still haven't been able to get
>_Chaosmosis_ on interlibrary loan as I'm not a student and it's too new,
>and I can't afford to buy it. What I've read of interviews with Guattari
>I've liked, but I've also felt it was a bit inadquate somehow, and his
>despair heightens the feeling. I do tend to see the kind of support in
>writers like Nietzsche and maybe Bataille, in many ways. Often, I find
>that some of what is happening is *alienated* for itself. I tend often to
>think that a reverse Nietzsche is something of a Gandhi, in certain ways.
>This may seem odd, but there are many, many parallels, from diatetics, to
>views (some) conerning women, etc. And the logics of reversal are very
>interesting: The opposites: Nietzsche as loner, Gandhi as squatting with
>everyone eating, making bread. Nietzsche as *antipolemos*, Gandhi as
>*antipolemos*, but in a kind of reverse fashion. Christian influences,
>etc.
>
>Tom B.
>
Chaosmosis is far beyond anything Guattari did previous, and up to now the
translations have been bad too. The Guattari Reader which just came out -
although I hate readers - is excellent.

Anguish and despair is often the only way to face the truth of existence,
and perhaps our inability to face up to the depressive horizon (I prefer
this to depressive position) waiting for all of us maintains us at the
level of petty neurosis, fantasy, and ignorant violence. Whether you live
joy in the face of death like Gandhi, Bataille, or Guattari is a matter of
character. But to me, Guattari always seemed the most energetic and least
depairing of all.




   

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