Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:53:22 +0000 (BST)
From: John Appleby <pyrew-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re:  Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again


On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:
 
> don't let the overstratified on this list discourage your destratification
> 
> i will say WARNING there are ALREADY those here, right now, on this list,
> attempting to RECUPERATE, NEUTRALIZE, and IDEOLOGIZE Deleuze and Guattari ...
> 
> ... if this succeeds in institutionalizing itself, those who are constructing
> rhizomes ACTIVELY --rather than "just" academically talking "about" D&G [i'm
> not condemning the academy but those there who would rather talk out their ass
> than ever construct one damn pragmatic rhizome] -- will have to move "beyond"
> D&G -- as they are already probably doing so.
> 
> Just as true cutting-edge "performance artists" have already moved beyond the
> realm of "performance art", so those who are active deleuzeguattarians in the
> sense of experimenting with active deliriums that analyze social segmentation
> and conformity and institutionalized misery and ressentiment in order to
> problem solve by creating new configurations of amazement will have to move
> beyond the discourse about deleuze ...

This all sounds very exciting, but if you really think that this is what
is going on, why don't you just wander off into the woods and drop huge
quantities of acid (or perhaps psilocybin would be better as it is more
natural, and all the drug companies are out to get us)? Is there a
difference between Deleuze and Guattari and Timothy Leary? 
 
> i find your explorations eminently relevant, and think dogmatic rationalism
> should be absolutely ignored in favor of more deleuzional ramblings and
> crossroadings ...

So basically we should ignore everything that we do not not like, and when
somebody accuses us of talking bollocks, rather than attempting to justify
ourselves should just say "It doesn't matter, because its affirmative
bollocks"? 

If you are really going to take this line, then could you please tell
me what is wrong with a line of destratification based upon paedophilia,
torture, and cannibalism. After all it is the active construction of a
rhizome which is going to destratify all sorts of things. And remember,
when you tell me it is not joyous, I'm just going to say that you are too
stratified to appreciate the joy inherent in it.

Regards

John