File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Jun.96, message 125


Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:15:35 GMT
From: twall-AT-oz.net (Thomas Wall)
Subject: Re: Ethics: BYO


>Thomas Wall wrote;
>>
>> Here I think D disagrees with you, Phil.  From Massumi we learn that there
>> is not an impenetrability but an all-too-porousness that characterizes the
>> BwO.  In fact, may we venture to say that the BwO only *is* at all insofar
>> as, and for as long as, it is penetrated (i.e. enfolds).  That is, it is
>> not a piece of something--matter, substance--waiting to be penetrated.  It
>> *is* (only) "its" intensities--as I learned from Seigworth's post directing
>> us to ATP, 153.  Its Neutrality is its extreme vulnerability to, and
>> indifferent enfolding of, an Outside.  And I believe it is the very
>> indiffence of its continual, more-than -passive, more-than-vulnerable
>> enfoldings, that, at bottom, forces us to think.  Not to immediately think
>> of that which is enfolded (as if thought is a harried hotel manager
>> struggling with more guests than he has rooms for) but rather, thought is
>> the obsession with a door that can't be closed. (kinda sorta).  (And
>> somehow this vulnerability relates to its acting in some convoluted way
>> which also relates to time. --I'm working on it).
>
>How within this kind of understanding of BWO would you deal with those
>assemblages such as the `perverse,
>artistic, poltical, military, intellectual', technological, technocratic. Does
>a text say this one as an
>assemblage of statements have its own BWO ? I'd suggest it does. Because
>assemblages are always assemblages of
>desire. Consider the human/computer/internet assemblage which i am currently a
>part of as i write this. Not
>that dissimilar to the knight/horse assemblage D&G were always so keen on.
>steve.devos-AT-dial.pipex.com

Steve--

No answer.  The assemblage thing is beyond me now except that I understand
it as a multiplicity.  I am turing my attention back to cinema.

--Tom



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