From: Chris Jones <ccjones-AT-turboweb.net.au>
Subject: Re: Faciality
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:08:57 +1100




Check out this paper by Anna Gibbs on Hanson and the contagion of 
affect. "Contagious Feelings: Pauline Hanson and  the Epidemiology of 
Affect" which can be found on:

http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/

---has to be one of the more interesting uses of D&G's 
faciality concept I have read, where D&G only make a footnote, 
perhaps.... Everything is there, in a way, with 
the added excitement that  Silvan Tomkin's affect has been deployed 
as the probe head. I find  that face Plateau difficult and 
complex in ATP, perhaps because it involves a reversal of Hegel. 
Hegel dragged poetry (kicking and screaming) towards the Absolute and 
the universal face of God, to face judgment. D&G reverse Hegel 
by saying the universal is a false infinity and so a universal is 
finite and limited. There is also the dualism of blackhole and white 
face. This cannot be escaped by returning to a primitive head and so 
dualism and judgment can only be taken apart from the inside, in this 
case by Tomkins Affect Theory used as a probe head.

A further connection can be added into this. The connection between 
poetry or poetics and television. Something I have seen little 
discusion of. 


On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:03, Chris Jones wrote:
> Helen
>
> H.D. (1916)
>
> All Greece hates
> the still eyes in the white face,
> the luster as of olives
> where she stands,
> And the white hands.
>
> All Greece reviles
> the wan face when she smiles,
> hating it deeper still
> when it grows wan and white,
> remembering past enchantments
> and past ills.
>
> Greece sees unmoved,
> God's daughter, born of love,
> the beauty of cool feet
> and slenderest knees,
> could love indeed the maid,
> only if she were laid,
> white ash amid funereal cypresses.