From: t22006-AT-cc.ntnu.edu.tw
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 15:42:45 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Re: Serres: Parasites and noise



On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Ariosto Raggo wrote:

> together is of interest to me because it brings thinking(my own of
> course) into the rigor of paradox whose tension releases a sort of
> vibration, murmur, noise which then make up the traversal, or crossing
> of the screen in an enigmatic manner, stirring far from any mystery and
> its symbols and any domesticating culture that one could be expressed
> with them in order to pacify unruly savagery and uncultivated forests.
> To balance a certain scale this way would be to expose, to risk dying of
> exposure in a holding out into a savage "clearing" in a rception of
> transmitting impressions, tatooing of skin, piercing of the screen in a
> continuing flow of pointilic periods endlessly in flux, constantly
> becoming other in their plasticity which would be the very "matter" of
> painting as Lyotard shows in so many essays, or attempts at cave
> painting -- non-symbolic, Klee-like childishness...
> 
> this is a "new materialism"
> 
> A sublime critter,
> Fumario de la Mark  ...

   yes, very stimulating stoff/stuff: i take it you construe this piercing/ 
tatooing  of the screen/skin (eye of the "monitor lizard" as 'twere) in 
the context of Deleuzes BwO as adumbrated in Mille Plateaux Ch. 6, i.e.
the schizophrenics' sado-masochistic obsession with piercing/sewing their
own and others' skin/bodies?
   fws