From: Goodchild P <p.goodchild-AT-ucsm.ac.uk> Subject: Re: BwO encore Date: Tue, 04 Jun 96 16:55:00 BST What is a body without organs? Definition: By body without organs 'I understand that which is in itself and is conceived through itself: that is, that the conception of which does not depend on the conception of another thing, from which conception it must be formed.' (Spinoza, Ethics I, Def. III) Problem 1: But what does it mean to 'be'? What does it mean to 'conceive'? Proposition 1: The body without organs is a presupposition about the nature of thought and the material of being. From the definition. Axiom 1 (of multiplicity): There are an indeterminate number of solutions to Problem 1. The concept of the body without organs is insufficiently determined. Proposition 2: If there are several manners of thinking and modes of existing, there are several bodies without organs. From axiom 1 and proposition 1. Corollary: If one thinks or exists, then one already has one. If one questions what it means to think or be, then one makes one. Comment: Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'Earth' is a body without organs: Alliez defines it as 'the Deterritorialized par excellence: the concept of the concept of the concept'. The body without organs is created reflexively - it is a fractal of philosophy. Proposition 3: The body without organs is unconscious. >From axiom 1, and proposition 2: if one thinks, then one has a body without organs that is insufficiently determined. Proposition 4: The body without organs has a self-positing force. >From definition, problem 1 and proposition 3. Comment: The body without organs is the unthinkable within thought that causes thought, and that thought must necessarily think. As pre-existent, it is a pure past. As still to be created, it is yet to come. As a self-positing yet not present cause, it generates thought and action. It is desire. When one thinks, desires, exists, one necessarily has a body without organs. It is the site or horizon of living and thinking. It is an ethos. Problem 2: What is the body without organs of Deleuze and Guattari? Possible solution: an exercise in geometrical constructivism. A problematic logic. There is fire in logic. The bwo of logic is fire. What's burning? Phil ------------------
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