File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9810, message 307


From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:11:20 EST
Subject: radical affirmation yet the "no"


I would like to place Deleuze's radical affirmation in the perspective of
Nietszche, who emphasizes the necessity of saying "no" until one can say
"yes", and then that "yes" transforms one.

While I subscribe to "and...and...and...", there are also some things it is
necessary to say "no" to. Without that "no", the "yes" is meaningless.

I say this because I just found myself in an old 70's style mafiaesque
restaurant filled with corporate fools discussing their little incubated
lifestyles and found myself so disgusted the only affirmation that brought a
smile to my lips was the idea of vaporizing the building to dust, laughing
gleefully as the partisans watched their den vanish.

There's a lot of bullshit out there. What's the place in Deleuze's philosophy
for undoing the bullshit? My understanding is that he finds the bullshit so
repugnant that the approach is to simply bypass it to create futures where it
doesn't exist, and thereby to remain focused on the affirmative rather than
reacting to the negative.

Still...

   

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