Date:        Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:27:40 EST
From: Karen Ocana <CXKO-AT-MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Re[4]: Delirium Continuum


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>> At 03:59 PM 2/20/96 EST, Karen Ocana wrote:
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>> >ps--melissa come back.
>>
>> Please!  And Malgosia too.
>>
>>
>> 		--	Steve
>>
>> and CHRIS and NATHAN
>
>                                      - amdib
Hey...who needs this? nostalgia, pah! don't look back!!

make it happen, right here, right now, what is this mommy-daddy shit
anyway. come back, feed me. rub me, i need you.  Whinge, whinge, whinge.

Forget it.

C'mon.  Dive in.

Continuities even delirious ones are dangerous.  Try discontinuities,
much more appetizing.  Break a mold.

There is this state/nomad problem for example.  A sort of face-off
between different takes on "how to make yourself a nomad" and what
is at stake in mimic(k)ing the stratum.  This involves having a feel
for the stratum, to be sure, for how else could you go about
destratifying; but hell, the worst thing is still feeling sorry
for yourself for a stratum has no scruples  and a nomad no
regrets.  But, of course this is perhaps too abstract a way of
putting it.

In the Shaviro-Evens scenario it is a case of qualifying what one
means by politics.  Of course if we're talking about academia we
are talking about campus politics and this involves codes of
pedagogical behaviour, the licit and the illicit, and what does a
nomad do then, poor thing?  What sort of war machine is perverse
enough to louse it up?  Strategy is key.

And if we're talking licit/illicit then we're talking law, but
there's law and there's law, the written, the tacit and the make-it-
up-as-you-go-along or phantasmatic.  Kafka's law is a porn book
don't forget, the law as desire and of desire: it needs you to
become you to become it.  But that's just Kafka, D&G and fiction
and neither here nor there.

It is said that institutions are always sadistic and what the
masochist wants is a contract.  Although again, it is a question
or as much a question of law (real and perceived) as of contract
(even in D's Sacher-Masoch book) and the pleasure (which D takes
to be a masochistic pleasure) is in instituting one's own law,
the law of one's desire, I take it.

And perhaps this is what the nomad does, the nomad in us all
and to hell with the law of the father (whatever that is)!

Karen

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