Wednesday 29 April 2020
AO #118
Measuring the two orders of magnitude in terms of the same analytical unit is a pure fiction, a cosmic swindle, as if one were to measure intergalactic or intra-atomic distances in meters and centimeters. There is no common measure between the value of the enterprises and that of the labor capacity of wage earners. (230)
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Saturday 25 April 2020
MP #115
Les sorciers ont toujours eu la position anomale, à la frontière des champs ou des bois. Ils hantent les lisières. Ils sont en bordure du village, ou ENTRE deux villages. L'important, c'est leur affinité avec l'alliance, avec le pacte, qui leur donne un statut opposé à celui de la filiation. (301)
AO #114
In Oedipus there is a recapitulation of the three states, or the three machines. For Oedipus makes ready in the territorial machine, as an empty unoccupied limit. It takes form in the despotic machine as a symbolically occupied limit. But it is filled and carried to completion only by becoming the imaginary Oedipus of the capitalist machine. (267)
AO #113
With the result that capitalism--in conformity with the movement by which it counteracts its own tendency--is continually drawing near the wall, while at the same time pushing the wall further way. Schizophrenia is the absolute limit, but capitalism is the relative limit. (176)
Thursday 23 April 2020
Monday 20 April 2020
Saturday 18 April 2020
MP #109
Si tout est vivant, ce n'est pas parce que tout est organique et organisé, mais au contraire parce que l'organisme est un détournement de la vie. Bref, une intense vie germinale inorganique, une puissante vie sans organes, un Corps vivant d'autant plus qu'il est sans organes, tout ce qui passe ENTRE les organisme ("une fois que les bornes naturelles de l'activité organique ont été rompues, il n'y a plus de limites"...). (623)
AO #108
In a certain sense, capitalist economists are not mistaken when they present the economy as being perpetually "in need of monetarization," as if it were always necessary to inject money into the economy from the outside according to a supply and a demand. In this manner the system indeed holds together and functions, and perpetually fulfills its own immanence. In this manner it is indeed the global object of an investment of desire. (239)
Friday 17 April 2020
AO #105
No, psychoanalysts invent nothing, though they have invented much in another way, and have legislated a lot, reinforced a lot, injected a lot. All that psychoanalysts do it to reinforce the movement; they add a last burst of energy to the displacement of the entire unconscious. (121)
Thursday 16 April 2020
AO #104
In his recent works Klossowski indicates to us the only means of bypassing the sterile parallelism where we flounder between Freud and Marx: by discovering how social production and relations of production are an institution of desire, and how affects or drives form part of the infrastructure itself. (63)
AO #103
The social machine's limit is not attrition, but rather its misfirings; it can operate only by fits and starts, by grinding and breaking down, in spasms of minor explosions. The dysfunctions are an essential element of its very ability to function, which is not the least important aspect of the system of cruelty. (151)
Tuesday 14 April 2020
AO #102
Jung is therefore entirely correct in saying that the Oedipus complex signifies something altogether different from itself, and that in the Oedipal relation the mother is also the earth, and incest is an infinite renaissance. (He is wrong only in thinking that he has thus "transcended" sexuality. ) (161)
Monday 13 April 2020
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Tuesday 7 April 2020
MP #98
L'agencement territorial ne cesse de passer dans d'autres agencements. De même que l'infra-agencement n'est pas séparable de l'intra-agencement, l'intra-agencement ne l'est pas davantage des inter-agencements, et pourtant les passages ne sont pas nécessaires, et se font "suivant le cas". (400)
AO #97
Even more than the hostility of traditional authorities, perhaps this is the actual source of failure of the antipsychiatric undertakings, of their co-option for the benefit of adaptational forms of familial psychotherapy and of community psychiatry, and of Laing's own retreat to the Orient. (360)
AO #95
But the mother as the simulacrum of territoriality, and the father as the simulacrum of the despotic Law, with the slashed, split, castrated ego, are the products of capitalism insofar as it engineers an operation that has no equivalent in the other social formations. (269)
Monday 6 April 2020
AO #94
So that capitalism is without doubt the universal of every society, but only in so far as it is capable of carrying to a certain point its own critique--that is, the critique of the processes by which it re-enslaves what within it tends to free itself or to appear freely. (270)
AO #93
Marx said that Luther's merit was to have determined the essence of religion, no longer on the side of the object, but as an interior religiosity; that the merit of Adam Smith and Ricardo was to have determined the essence or nature of wealth no longer as an objective nature, but as an abstract and deterritorialized subjective essence, THE ACTIVITY OF PRODUCTION IN GENERAL. But as this determination develops under the condition of capitalism, they objectify the essence all over again, they alienate and reterritotialize it, this time in the form of the private ownership of the means of production. (270)
Friday 3 April 2020
「現代詩手帖」2020年4月号
「現代詩手帖」4月号に書評を書きました。屋久島の詩人・山尾三省の詩集『新版 びろう葉帽子の下で』。よい詩集、生活を変えることを促す詩集。ぜひ手にとってみてください(詩集をね、書評じゃなくて。いや、書評もだけど)。
Thursday 2 April 2020
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