Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:25:55 -0800 (PST)
From: MR J SELLARS <PYREZ-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: temperament


On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, AM Dib wrote:
		
> >   Hello. I was wondering if you could recomend an approach in my understanding
> > the life of deleuze.  So little is wriiten about the way he lived. It is
> > parmount to understand the artist and his art- not just the books he wrote. I
> > can be reached at 
> > Visconti &-AT-aol.com  or be telephoned at 773 282 3722 thanks
> >  

> While reading your msgs, I remembered a remark Eric Alliez mentioned to me in the 
> last DeleuzeGuattarian conference at Warwick University. He said in reply to 
> my question about a project of a book about Deleuze's life " NO, I do hope 
> that this would not be done".  He was abnoxious about it.
> 
> amdib
>   

Why is the question of biography such a sensitive one? I'm not
particularly interested in fingernails or throat illnesses but it
sometimes seems a bit surprising that the life (of the artist) is 
in this case seen to be out of bounds. 

What about 'practical philosophy' and the account of the philosopher's
life on the very first page of SPINOZA: PP?

What about the claims that philosophy is about what we do, not what 
there is, that writing is always one machine in assemblage with others,
that the text is not some holy book to be interpreted but rather a 
toolbox to be used? 

None of these things make the personal details of a French academic's
life public property but they perhpas hint towards the idea that seeing 
experiments in action might be useful when exploring the engineering
manuals. 

John