File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Mar.96, message 9


From: Fellhand-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:44:12 -0500
Subject: Re: nomad


dominic writes

>
>crispin---I don't beleve it (well, belief should be another thread)--
>but you give the best outline for a pragmatics of nomadism yet in the
>first part of you post and then go on to this "disarticulation" biz.
>they're quite contradictory positions.  How are you going to be
>interdisciplinary
>after you have disarticulated the disciplines?  We need more disciplines.
And
>many very well-articualted micro-disciplines.  Minor-disciplines with their 
>own budgets.  This is how more critical and political leverage on the major
>disciplines is created, not through some subtle influences from within.  
>Watch how fast English Depts, when they pretend interdisciplinary study,
>quickly form a limited canon of hip extra-canonical texts.  You will NEVER
>find that happening across depts of different disciplines except maybe in
>the smallest religious schools.  Who wants to take a psychology course from
>a sociologist? 
>fuck.


more disciplines would be good, i guess.  it's impossible to imagine academe
without its departments. what i'm saying is that each deterritorialization
that actually is effected is already reterritorialized into the disciplinary
taxonomy/institutiona economic structure.  but what the hell, you know?  i
waffle between thinking we academics can accomplish various subversions and
thinking we cannot; certainly we aren't going to change the world much, at
least until we've changed ourselves beyond recognition.  i'm particularly
bitter ight now because i think i should be doing very well on the job
market, and people keep rejecting me on the grounds that i'm insufficiently
specialized (probably also because i don't quite act appropriately).  i'd
knuckle under if i knew how, because i'n trying to get a job that will keep
me close to my kids.

if my students go nomadic i get worried!  i had a kid to whom i taught
kierkegaard and he decided to move to california and live for faith.  his
parents called me, distraught.   i was afraid of having effects!  in fact,
isn't that one of the joys of our deal?: action without effect.  so if i fuck
up on my interpretation of foucault or publish a strange book, no one really
cares anyway; nothing really turns on it.  maybe action without effect is
nomadic?

crispin

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