Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Crosby <crosby_m-AT-rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dissertation [Deleuze & Carroll]


---Mark Crosby <crosby_m-AT-rocketmail.com> wrote:
> ---Seraina1-AT-aol.com wrote:
> > which artist would be appropriate to examine under
> the light of Deleuze's philosophy.
> [CUT] 
> I wonder if Deleuze explicitly addresses [Lewis]
> Carroll's photography, rather than his texts,
> anywhere?  - Mark

Answering my own question:

In the "33rd Series of Alices's Adventures" in _Logic
of Sense_, Gilles Deleuze discusses the artist as
clinician, "extract[ing] the non-actualizable part of
the pure event from symptoms", and how, "the
positive, highly affirmative character of
desexualization consists in the replacement of
psychic regression by speculative investment... the
mystery lies in this leap that Carroll, a renowned
photographer, experiences a pleasure that we might
assume to be perverse" (p238).

Then, the "34th Series of Primary Order and Secondary
Organization" explains how "Nonsense functions as the
zero point of thought ... a cerebral crack at the
limits of which the event appears" (p241), and how,
"the two basic sexual series, the pregenital and the
Oedipal" (p242) merge and resonate so that: "a
desexualized energy invests or reinvests an object of
sexual interest as such and is thereby re-sexualized
in a new way. Such is the most general mechanism of
perversion, on the condition that perversion be
distinguished as an art of the surface from
subversion as a technique of depth" (p243).

Back in the "13th Series of the Schizophrenic and the
Little Girl", Deleuze contrasts Carroll with Antonin
Artaud: "For him [Artaud], there is not, there is no
longer, any surface. How could Carroll not strike him
as an affected little girl, protected from all deep
problems?" (p86) ... The consequence of this is that
the entire body is no longer anything but depth ...
In this collapse of the surface, the entire world
loses its meaning" (p97).

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