Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:59:46 -0400
From: gonsalv-AT-odyssee.net (Ronald Gonsalves)


Nick recently wrote

"I'm not so comfortable with McLuhan describing "media" as the "extensions
of man" i.e. as extensions of the human organism"

But why not? Is not the entire tenor of D&G directed towards going beyond
the limits of the organism, the social body, the "organize 'em" of the
despised world of order-words? Is not there a whole discourse in AO about
the restrictive nature of the organism "the molar order where they form the
organic or social machines, and invest organic or social surroundings" (291) 
as opposed to a "molecular order" of desire that is ultimately beyond the
human (au-dela de l'homme was the catch phrase when AO was written). Course
we cannot live in this order that excludes the illusion of the ego, this
delirious melange of flows, breaks, interruptions, amalgamations. Hence
deterritorialize the organism--become more artificial, more perverse--
(p.321) become-molecular...and this perhaps is what "the extension of sight
actually implies for the individual human organism"

out the door

more later if this interests you

rojan josh


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