File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Jun.96, message 111


From: dionysus-AT-bway.net
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Ethics


>
>Where, then, is redemptive trust?  Not in the future.  Not in a dead body.
> Not in the self.  Not even in emotion - the love of love (  -  folding too
>soon).  But in a body that would be almost unliveable, an untimely body, a
>body without organs, a body of fire.  A body that is yet to create itself,
>but is already now-here.  An impenetrable body.
>
>Have done with judgement.  Affirm all chance.  Turn to neither future nor
>past, but  to the virtual dimension of time.  Listen - in the hope of
>enfolding and being enfolded - to the arrival of an immanent utopia.
>
>
>Phil
>(Did I forget to mention that I'm a theologian?)
>(I'm definitely going to shut up this time.)


Sounds theological
Downright prosletizing, prophetic, and pedagogical

Not that I don't agree

But I also disagree

There's always more to the story

Sure, when I get bogged down I jump on the Deleuzian rapid transit
Exploding a la Artaud - imploding a la Zen - is just the ticket for stagnation

But the unbearable lightness of being - the spectacle of reversible time -
chaos and immanence - that too can be a bore

I wouldn't give up the dead weight of bodies, love, and (yes) judgement for
anything

"Let me explain myself. No use laying it up to irony when I say of Madame
Edwarda that she is GOD. But GOD figures as a public whore and gone crazy -
that, viewed through the optic of "philosophy," makes no sense at all. I
don't mind having my sorrow derided if derided it has to be, he only will
grasp me aright whose heart holds a wound that is an incurable wound, who
never, for anything, in any way, would be cured of it . . . And what man,
if so wounded, would ever be willing to "die" of any other hurt?"

--Georges Bataille

Bataille's Nietzsche is not Deleuze's Nietzsche
George and Friedrich are light and heavy
"To live outside the law you must be honest"

Careful now, you don't float off the planet - unless that's where you want
to go.

Nietzsche is as Nietzsche does.

-Will
(Did I forget to mention I'm a theologician)



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