Friday, 22 May 2020
Thursday, 21 May 2020
AO #135
What is essential is this double movement whereby Butler drives both arguments beyond their very limits. He shatters the vitalist argument by calling in question the specific or personal unity of the organism, and the mechanist argument even more decisively, by calling in question the structural unity of the machine. (284)
Monday, 18 May 2020
Friday, 15 May 2020
AO #133
The opposition is between the class and those who are outside the class. Between the servants of the machine, and those who sabotage it or its cogs and wheels. Between the social machine's régime and that of the desiring-machines. Between the relative interior limits and the absolute exterior limit. (255)
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Monday, 11 May 2020
MP #127
Maintenant que nous considérons des expressions qui ont leur contenu en elles-mêmes, nous avons une autre distinction : le visage avec ses corrélats visuels (yeux) renvoie à la peinture, la voix renvoie à la musique, avec ses corrélats auditifs (l'oreille est elle-même une ritournelle, elle en a la forme). (371)
Saturday, 9 May 2020
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
AO #124
The pseudo territoriality is the product of an effective deterriorialization that substitutes abstract signs for the signs of the earth, and that makes the earth itself into the object of a State ownership of property, or an ownership held by the State's richest servants and officials. (196)
Sunday, 3 May 2020
AO #123
And above all, what is made of the unconscious itself, if not its explicit reduction to an EMPTY FORM, from which desire itself is absent and expelled? ... For if it is true that the unconscious has no material or content, this is assuredly not because it is an empty form, but rather because it is always and already a functioning machine, a desiring machine and not an anorexic structure. (186)
Saturday, 2 May 2020
週刊「読書人」5月8日号
週刊「読書人」5月8日号のアンケート「こういうときこそ本を読もう」。大竹昭子、温又柔、姜信子、斎藤真理子さんら全36名。ぼくも2冊あげてます。
ぼくがあげたのはブローティガンの『アメリカの鱒釣り』と藤本和子『塩を食う女たち』。アメリカンでごめん。でもどちらも非常にいい本です!
AO #122
The exegetical meaning (what is said about the thing) is only one element among others, and is less important than the operative use (what is done with the thing) or the positional functioning (the relationship with other things in one and the same complex), according to which the symbol is never in a one-to-one relationship with what it means, but always has a multiplicity of referents, being "always multifocal and polysemous." (181)