Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:37:02 -0500 (EST) From: Orpheus <cw_duff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca> Subject: A For instance This is how the list worked when it founder was still alive. Perhaps we can consider this approach to a text and see what happens. I would be delighted if the direction of this list were to move along these lines. And others as well, more expansive more elaborate and including many areas of EXpression. Forwarded message: >From MCURRENT-AT-INS.INFONET.NET Mon Feb 21 10:49:37 1994 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 10:38:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Michael J. Current" <MCURRENT-AT-INS.INFONET.NET> Subject: MP Reading Group - 1st Assignment & Administrivia Summary for those of you who are too weary to read this post, though I really hope you will - We are getting underway. Please start reading with "Introduction: Rhizome" and try to be ready to discuss, or at least follow discussion, by roughly a week from today. Hi, 1.) (A Personal Note) Sorry for taking soooooooo long to get things underway. I have just not been well. Friday it was finally determined that I have diabetes (along with everything else). Not very happy news, but at least it is no longer a mystery and treatment can begin. At the same time, my anti-depressant medication has stopped working, as tends to happen frequently to me (Sigh). Changes will be made this week - if there are any left to be made - and that also tends to be very taxing. PLEASE, bear with me, and if I miss my own deadlines, understand that my life is going through some serious adjustment just now. . . . (I can't tell you how odd I feel discussing this here. I'm afraid there are no good schizoanalytic practitioners here in Iowa. Perhaps we should all gather at La Borde. . . .) 2.) From your responses, I gather that an initial reading of "Introduction: Rhizome" is acceptable to folks. That is fine with me. *****YOU SHOULD START READING "RHIZOME" AS SOON AS YOU CAN.****** 3.) Over the course of the next week or so, I will be posting a variety of quotations from Deleuze and perhaps from some commentators about "philosophy," reading, and the relationship between between the two parts of _Capitalism and Schizophrenia_. Hopefully these will stimulate some discussion. . . . *****To start, I will set a goal of having completed my work and posted my notes on "Rhizome" by one week from today. If this proves too slow or fast a pace, we can adjust from there. If you have questions or things you want to share as you are reading along, jump right in and post them.***** (Thanks, Mark Zamierowski, for jumping in already!) I've never done such an on-line reading group before, so I don't know exactly what my notes can/will contain. . . . Suggestions? 4.) PLEASE put MP at the beginning of the subject header in all posts related to the reading group, o.k.? I don't think I am likely to miss any Deleuze group posting, but I get tons of email, and want to be sure I see yours. It will be helpful for others as ell. 5.) If you intend to do the reading, or even to *try* to do so, please drop me a note by PRIVATE E-MAIL. It need contain no more than the word "yes." I just want to get a sense of how many people are feeling like participating at this point. 6.) So far, there have been NO volunteers to post notes or reflections on the reading along with me. I am willing to conduct a monologue for a while if necessary, but come on, I know at least one of you can do it. If you are feeling intimidated, please note three things: a.) I'm intimidated, too. b.) This book intimidates *everyone*, including seasoned Deleuze scholars. c.) ******We are going to view this book the way Deleuze makes it quite clear he intended - as an "open" text containing something for everyone.***** This is not a list for "Deleuze experts," but rather for anyone who is committed enough to read the text. If you do the reading, you are "expert" enough to post questions and reactions. Indeed, thoughts from those approaching the text for the first time are likely to be the most fresh and fruitful. We will count on the "experts" to help us along, but any condescension to other posters will be discouraged most harshly by me. Michael NOTE ON THE TEXT: Please note that some of the material from _Mille Plateux_ was published in earlier versions in journals, etc. In this instance, the first version of _Rhizome_ was published in French as a seperate booklet in 1976, four years before _Mille Plateau_ appeared. (There is at least one translation of this earlier version available). Please do not use it, as it is substantially different from the final version published in _Mille Plateaux_. Please read the section as it appears in Brian Massumi's translation, _A Thousand Plateaus_, or in the French original of _Mille Plateaux_ if you want to show off :). In this instance, the first half of the Semiotext(e) booklet _On the Line_ *is* a translation of the final French text, but by a different translator. I suppose you could compare the two for "extra credit," but I really would like to stick to the Massumi translation and the final French text so we can all find things on the same pages. P.S. Over the course of our discussion on this reading, I will post a "summary" of the plateaus, borrowed from Charles Stivale, and then we can discuss what to read next, etc. (It is not necessarily my goal to "finish" with the reading of the book by the end of the semester or whenever, as much as it is to sustain an engaging discussion of the text for however long people are interested.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. 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