Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:56:39 -0400
From: "j. patrick fadely" <jpf22-AT-uga.edu>
Subject: d/g&wei-qi/igo


i ran into interesting words of a commentator on 1,000 
Plateaus concerning the game of igo (wei-qi in Chinese). D&G 
relate the game to deterritorialization and contrast the game 
space with that of the striated, linear space of a chess 
board which is governed by internal heirarchies. 

this is examined in the context of the discussion of the 
police as internal occupying war-machine.

anyone on the list play GO? anyone care to comment on the 
relationships between the chess board and certian internal, 
lineated control structures? anyone interested in game theory?

i am also wondering if anything has been written connecting 
D&G works with the ideas of Borges' Book of Sands...a text 
which constantly shifts, in which the same thing is never 
found twice. A-O seems to be a textual interface rather than 
a traditional book. relations with literary criticism? 

off,

j. patrick fadely

ps- fili: i was not saying: "FILI IS _______." i thought that 
the call-response-callback of escalating disgust reminded me 
of a dog eating its own excrement. that's all. i reject your 
simplistic assessment of america. i also wonder: with what 
did you paint your fingernails, and what color?