The veil

“We are an old country anchored in a certain idea of how to live together. A full veil which completely hides the face is an attack on those values, which for us are so fundamental,” [Sarkozy] told his ministers. “Citizenship has to be lived with an uncovered face. There can therefore be absolutely no solution other than a ban in all public places.”

I suppose it’d be predictable and trite to quote the Deleuze and Guattari Faciality plateau here. So that’s what I’ll do. But which part exactly? This one is good:

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All about Omar

Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been preparing for and having guests, plus too much work. But I did manage to submit the following essay proposal, which was positively received. Now I’ve got to write the thing. Eeeek!

Filed under: Control, Deleuzeguattari, Minor, Subjectivity

Justice

“Justice is no more than the immanent process of desire.” I’m sometimes thick, but this line from Deleuze and Guattari’s Kafka book, and Deleuze’s usage of the term justice generally, has always confused me.

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Discipline

A few additional points on the last post:

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Panic

From the archive at Archive, a couple of paragraphs from Franco Berardi’s “Schizo-economy”:

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Self, transformation

Pinocchio Theory has an excellent post on Manuel DeLanda’s new book, A New Philosophy of Society, that deals with something I’ve been trying to get my brain around recently: how to think about the relationship between the subject and society–how do they interact, under which conditions is one determining of the other, how is the self constitutive of and constituted by the social, etc.

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Machinic

From Rosi Braidotti‘s essay “Affirming the Affirmative: On Nomadic Affectivity“:

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‘Brazil’

It is not sufficient to define bureaucracy by a rigid segmentarity with compartmentalization of contiguous offices, an office manager in each segment, and the corresponding centralization at the end of the hall or on top of the tower.–Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 214

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil envisions a world defined by bureaucracy and its oceans of paperwork, terror-inducing government forms identifiable by their jumble of numbers, letters, and backstrokes, and inefficient, inflexible administrative mechanisms.

Filed under: Deleuzeguattari, Lines of Flight, Walls and Lines

Interest

Following are some excerpts from the conclusion to Jason Read’s review of Peter Hallward’s book on Deleuze, which I haven’t read.

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Negative affirmation

The long and difficult section on the unconscious in the long and difficult chapter on repetition in Difference and Repetition is Deleuze’s description of the site of the “passive synthesis” that occurs in the contemplating mind. The name for this passive synthesis is habit, “the foundation from which all other psychic phenomena derive.” Deleuze insists on passivity because the goal of active synthesis is “global integration,” in the form of representation and unity. Only passive synthesis can maintain multiplicity, because it does not dissolve the “thousands of habits of which we are composed” into a unified subject.

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