Research- Chaosophy (ongoing)
Chaosophy
https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/guattari_chaosophy.pdf
D&G: A Writing Machine
Investigation of psychoanalytical methods of working, analysis and production of material.
'The two authors sought ways of escaping any form of coding by exposing themselves to the forces of the outside so as to demolish the established forms. In this sense, the nomad horizon already defined as an ideal would be fully carried out in the second volume published in 1980, with A Thousand Plateaus. As for Anti-Oedipus, in 1972 it had been an extraordinary editorial success. The first printing of the book soon ran out and it had to be quickly reprinted and reedited with the addition of an appendix.18 On the other hand, Deleuze and Guattari's theses never were truly debated at La Borde, and they kept being ignored by the corporation of psychoanalysts, with the notable exception of Serge Leclaire.'
1977: Molecular Revolution
'Politically militant, Guattari's reflection on psychoanalysis and the way in which it affects politics inspired great enthusiasm in Bifo'
https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/guattari_chaosophy.pdf
D&G: A Writing Machine
Investigation of psychoanalytical methods of working, analysis and production of material.
'The two authors sought ways of escaping any form of coding by exposing themselves to the forces of the outside so as to demolish the established forms. In this sense, the nomad horizon already defined as an ideal would be fully carried out in the second volume published in 1980, with A Thousand Plateaus. As for Anti-Oedipus, in 1972 it had been an extraordinary editorial success. The first printing of the book soon ran out and it had to be quickly reprinted and reedited with the addition of an appendix.18 On the other hand, Deleuze and Guattari's theses never were truly debated at La Borde, and they kept being ignored by the corporation of psychoanalysts, with the notable exception of Serge Leclaire.'
1977: Molecular Revolution
'Politically militant, Guattari's reflection on psychoanalysis and the way in which it affects politics inspired great enthusiasm in Bifo'
'Bologna is a medium-size city with a strong student component, and therefore very receptive to the themes that Radio Alice developed: "Radio Alice homes on the eye of the cultural storm with a subversion of language, the publication of a journal called AJTraverso, but it also directly plunges into political action with the idea of 'transversalizing' it." As early as 1976, Bifo was arrested for "moral instigation to revolt." On March 13, Bologna was in a state of '
Close to but Distinct from Antipsychiatry
'...permanent dialogue and a continuous process connecting it to the macro scale of the surrounding society. It was clearly out of the question to set up isolated cells cut off from the remainder of society in the name of some kind of alternative logic. '
Modernity and New Processes of Subjectification
'Guattari would above all become involved with ecological movements, seeing in them the site for a possible restoration of the relationship between politics and the citizen.'
'He integrated this ecological dimension in its multiple interventions, emphasizing the North/South imbalance and its disastrous consequences, as well as the ethical dimension of the environmental problem.'
'In his handwritten notes, there is a text dating back to a month before his death entitled "Vers une nouvelle 24 / democratie ecologique"3G ("Towards a New Ecological Democracy" ) '
The design of this was very modern and the links known by the writer to psychology and psychoanalysis are vital when considering how and why people act as they do. This analysis is seeing the holistic view within society and does not condense such into a strict bracket of environment, politics or social.
'In the work Guattari published in 1989, he defined ecosophy as the necessary articulation between the political and ethical dimensions of three registers: the questions of the environment, of social relations, and of the subjective dimension. '
Conceptually very similar to my own practice and work with the combination of various political and ecological problems. The aspect of this work most relevant is the deep rooted political belief that ll are linked to one another. This is the aspect that, within modern culture, many do not make the explicit link.
'Guattari didn't deny Freudianism its historical contribution, but he was eager to promote a different approach which would no longer revolve around the opposition between conscious and unconscious, but would envisage the unconscious as an overlay of diverse heterogeneous strata of subjectification, each of variable consistency and productive of flows-the thing he tried to identify in his schizoanalytic cartographies.'
' Guattari warned us about the urgency of answering these new challenges, as otherwise the repercussions of inertia could be cruel and destructive'
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism, a very special delirium
'By contrast to other societies, it is a regime both of the public and the inadmissible. A very special delirium inherent to the regime of money'
Addressing the concept of ideology was a massive part of this section. Discussing the making of an 'ideology' of a power structure to create and illusion of self thought and individual decision. The concept of religion as ideology, when in reality it is a power structure. The word used wrongly to inspire and spread an idea more easily, hence why such repressive regimes had so much propaganda.
'But how does one conceive a collective form of the economy of desire? Certainly not at the local level. I would have a lot of difficulty imagining a small, liberated · community maintaining itself against the flows of a repressive society, like the addition of individuals emancipated one by one. If, on the contrary, desire constitutes the very texture of society in its entirety, including in its mechanisms of reproduction, a movement of liberation can "crystallize" in the whole of society. '
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
When we talk about desiring-machines, about the unconscious as a mechanism of desire, we mean something quite different. To desire consists of this: to make cuts, to let certain contrary flows run, to take samplings of the flows, to cut the chains that are wedded to the flows. This whole system of the unconscious 53 or of desire which lets flow, which cuts, which lets move, this system of the unconscious, contrary to what traditional psychoanalysis believes, means nothing. There is no meaning, no interpretation to be given, no significance. The problem is to recognize how the unconscious functions. It's a problem that concerns the use of machines, the functioning of "desiring-machines."
I mainly chose this quote to look at due to the fact it confused me. Although within context of the book it makes more sense. When extracted, the concept of mechanical-desire is of interest. I feel parallels can be draw with this and aesthetics, selfish-aesthetics and visual/mental reaction to those aesthetics.
Not to say that it wishes for the revolution. It's better than that. It's revolutionary by nature because it builds machines capable-when inserted into the social structure-of exploding things, of disrupting the social fabric.
'What has been called into question here is not one isolated system, but rather the whole dynamic of social mechanisms, whether related to desire or to revolutionary struggle or to science or to industry. '
IN FLUX
'That's why we used so many writers and poets; who is to say if they are speaking as patients or doctors patients or doctors of civilization.'
Within the schizophrenic patient, the confines are as tight as that of society. The capitalist system that induces and barricades leads to mental health lines. This is present within the youth of modern day, the capitalist regime disallows for the 'outside' and therefore and fluctuation of mentality. This creates a broad spectrum for mental health and therefore 'problem youth'. Although reflected on already within the book, this issue is still present and relevant. The reduction of art and arts funding disallows outlets that do not support the state and the capitalist goal.
'You've only accepted it by submerging it in your own language, with theories that you've developed, where you give greater importance to fetishism, that is to say, precisely, to the partial object. You take refuge in this sort of language to reduce Deleuze and Guattari to details.'
Although not directly relevant to the work I am producing. This quote stood out due to the interaction within the interview based novel. The differing opinions within one room is and example of the capitalist mentality of individualism. The individual thoughts of each speaker and opinions clash on how to view the situation. When ultimately, the aim of all would be resolution. Although not that simple, this resolution would come in many forms,. If not simply the resolution of the individuals views being combined to add a more progressive commentary.
'Everything in Anti-Oedipus that concerns the birth of the state, the role of the state, schizophrenia, you say nothing about. You say nothing about your daily practice. You say nothing about the true problem of psychoanalysis, that of the patient. Of course, you, Serge Leclaire, are not being put on trial, but this is the point to which you should respond: the relationship of psychoanalysis to the state, to capitalism, to History; to schizophrenia. '
'Deleuze and Guattari, the former a philosopher, the latter a psychoanalyst, are reflecting together on capitalism. In order to conceive capitalism, they go through schizophrenia, in which they see the effects and limits of our society. And in order to conceive schizophrenia, they go through Oedipal psychoanalysis, but like Attila: in their walke, nothing much is left standing. '
' There is nothing in territorial machines (primitive societies) that would allow one to say that it anticipates what will come after: no caste system, no class system, no exploitation, not even work (if work, by essence, is alienated). So where does History, class struggle, deterritorialization, etc., come from? Deleuze and Guattari answer this question, for they do know what to make of the Savages. And their answer is, in my view, the most vigorous, most rigorous discovery in Anti-Oedipus: it concerns the theory of the " Urstaat," the cold monster, the nightmare, the state, which is the same everywhere and "which has always existed."
'If history is the history of class struggles (in societies where there are classes, of course) then one can say that the history of classless societies is the history of their struggle against the latent state, it's the history of their effort to encode the flux of power. '
'Encoding, overcoding, decoding and flux: these categories establish the theory of society, whereas the idea of Urstaat, whether warded off or triumphant, establishes the theory of History. This is radically new thought, a revolutionary way of thinking. '
Balancing-sheet or 'desiring machines'
'An image is something that can only be seen ... It is the compromise, but the compromise distorts both parties alike, namely, the nature of the reactionary represor and the nature of the revolutionary desire. '
Close to but Distinct from Antipsychiatry
'...permanent dialogue and a continuous process connecting it to the macro scale of the surrounding society. It was clearly out of the question to set up isolated cells cut off from the remainder of society in the name of some kind of alternative logic. '
Modernity and New Processes of Subjectification
'Guattari would above all become involved with ecological movements, seeing in them the site for a possible restoration of the relationship between politics and the citizen.'
'He integrated this ecological dimension in its multiple interventions, emphasizing the North/South imbalance and its disastrous consequences, as well as the ethical dimension of the environmental problem.'
'In his handwritten notes, there is a text dating back to a month before his death entitled "Vers une nouvelle 24 / democratie ecologique"3G ("Towards a New Ecological Democracy" ) '
The design of this was very modern and the links known by the writer to psychology and psychoanalysis are vital when considering how and why people act as they do. This analysis is seeing the holistic view within society and does not condense such into a strict bracket of environment, politics or social.
'In the work Guattari published in 1989, he defined ecosophy as the necessary articulation between the political and ethical dimensions of three registers: the questions of the environment, of social relations, and of the subjective dimension. '
Conceptually very similar to my own practice and work with the combination of various political and ecological problems. The aspect of this work most relevant is the deep rooted political belief that ll are linked to one another. This is the aspect that, within modern culture, many do not make the explicit link.
'Guattari didn't deny Freudianism its historical contribution, but he was eager to promote a different approach which would no longer revolve around the opposition between conscious and unconscious, but would envisage the unconscious as an overlay of diverse heterogeneous strata of subjectification, each of variable consistency and productive of flows-the thing he tried to identify in his schizoanalytic cartographies.'
' Guattari warned us about the urgency of answering these new challenges, as otherwise the repercussions of inertia could be cruel and destructive'
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism, a very special delirium
'By contrast to other societies, it is a regime both of the public and the inadmissible. A very special delirium inherent to the regime of money'
Addressing the concept of ideology was a massive part of this section. Discussing the making of an 'ideology' of a power structure to create and illusion of self thought and individual decision. The concept of religion as ideology, when in reality it is a power structure. The word used wrongly to inspire and spread an idea more easily, hence why such repressive regimes had so much propaganda.
'But how does one conceive a collective form of the economy of desire? Certainly not at the local level. I would have a lot of difficulty imagining a small, liberated · community maintaining itself against the flows of a repressive society, like the addition of individuals emancipated one by one. If, on the contrary, desire constitutes the very texture of society in its entirety, including in its mechanisms of reproduction, a movement of liberation can "crystallize" in the whole of society. '
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
When we talk about desiring-machines, about the unconscious as a mechanism of desire, we mean something quite different. To desire consists of this: to make cuts, to let certain contrary flows run, to take samplings of the flows, to cut the chains that are wedded to the flows. This whole system of the unconscious 53 or of desire which lets flow, which cuts, which lets move, this system of the unconscious, contrary to what traditional psychoanalysis believes, means nothing. There is no meaning, no interpretation to be given, no significance. The problem is to recognize how the unconscious functions. It's a problem that concerns the use of machines, the functioning of "desiring-machines."
I mainly chose this quote to look at due to the fact it confused me. Although within context of the book it makes more sense. When extracted, the concept of mechanical-desire is of interest. I feel parallels can be draw with this and aesthetics, selfish-aesthetics and visual/mental reaction to those aesthetics.
Not to say that it wishes for the revolution. It's better than that. It's revolutionary by nature because it builds machines capable-when inserted into the social structure-of exploding things, of disrupting the social fabric.
'What has been called into question here is not one isolated system, but rather the whole dynamic of social mechanisms, whether related to desire or to revolutionary struggle or to science or to industry. '
IN FLUX
'That's why we used so many writers and poets; who is to say if they are speaking as patients or doctors patients or doctors of civilization.'
Within the schizophrenic patient, the confines are as tight as that of society. The capitalist system that induces and barricades leads to mental health lines. This is present within the youth of modern day, the capitalist regime disallows for the 'outside' and therefore and fluctuation of mentality. This creates a broad spectrum for mental health and therefore 'problem youth'. Although reflected on already within the book, this issue is still present and relevant. The reduction of art and arts funding disallows outlets that do not support the state and the capitalist goal.
'You've only accepted it by submerging it in your own language, with theories that you've developed, where you give greater importance to fetishism, that is to say, precisely, to the partial object. You take refuge in this sort of language to reduce Deleuze and Guattari to details.'
Although not directly relevant to the work I am producing. This quote stood out due to the interaction within the interview based novel. The differing opinions within one room is and example of the capitalist mentality of individualism. The individual thoughts of each speaker and opinions clash on how to view the situation. When ultimately, the aim of all would be resolution. Although not that simple, this resolution would come in many forms,. If not simply the resolution of the individuals views being combined to add a more progressive commentary.
'Everything in Anti-Oedipus that concerns the birth of the state, the role of the state, schizophrenia, you say nothing about. You say nothing about your daily practice. You say nothing about the true problem of psychoanalysis, that of the patient. Of course, you, Serge Leclaire, are not being put on trial, but this is the point to which you should respond: the relationship of psychoanalysis to the state, to capitalism, to History; to schizophrenia. '
'Deleuze and Guattari, the former a philosopher, the latter a psychoanalyst, are reflecting together on capitalism. In order to conceive capitalism, they go through schizophrenia, in which they see the effects and limits of our society. And in order to conceive schizophrenia, they go through Oedipal psychoanalysis, but like Attila: in their walke, nothing much is left standing. '
' There is nothing in territorial machines (primitive societies) that would allow one to say that it anticipates what will come after: no caste system, no class system, no exploitation, not even work (if work, by essence, is alienated). So where does History, class struggle, deterritorialization, etc., come from? Deleuze and Guattari answer this question, for they do know what to make of the Savages. And their answer is, in my view, the most vigorous, most rigorous discovery in Anti-Oedipus: it concerns the theory of the " Urstaat," the cold monster, the nightmare, the state, which is the same everywhere and "which has always existed."
'If history is the history of class struggles (in societies where there are classes, of course) then one can say that the history of classless societies is the history of their struggle against the latent state, it's the history of their effort to encode the flux of power. '
'Encoding, overcoding, decoding and flux: these categories establish the theory of society, whereas the idea of Urstaat, whether warded off or triumphant, establishes the theory of History. This is radically new thought, a revolutionary way of thinking. '
Balancing-sheet or 'desiring machines'
'An image is something that can only be seen ... It is the compromise, but the compromise distorts both parties alike, namely, the nature of the reactionary represor and the nature of the revolutionary desire. '
'bringing out an unconscious alive with revolution, straining towards a being, a non-Oedipal man and woman, the "freely mechanical being," "the projection of a human group still to be discovered," whose mystery resides in its function and not in its interpretation, the "wholly secular intensity of desire" (there has never been such a thorough denunciation of the authoritarian and pious nature of psychoanalysis)'
'the Dadaist molecular machinery, which, for its part, brings about a reversal in the form of a revolution of desire, because it submits the relations of production to the trial of 1 1 4 : the parts of the desiring-machine, and elicits from the latter joyous movements of deterritorialization that overcome all the territorialities of nation and party; and lastly, a humanist antimachinism, which wants to rescue imaginary or symbolic desire, to turn it back against the machine, standing ready to level it onto an Oedipal apparatus (Surrealism versus Dadaism, or Chaplin versus the Dadaist Buster Keaton)'
'And precisely because it is not a matter of ideology, but of a machination that brings into play an entire group unconscious characterizing a historical epoch, the tie between these attitudes and the social and political field is complex'
Beyond Analysis
GUERRILLA IN PSYCHIATRY: Franco Basaglia
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