November 13, 2004
D&G Pickles
"Comrades"
Deluze and Guatarri,
(those overfed
cheerleaders
for the revolution)
mistake motivation for desire,
and therefore never get beyond
ponderous discussion
of the
"motivations for revolution"
regular Dr Phils
in spooky robes,
they're
ersatz clergy
offering only more alienation.
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The axiom
that "the masses can be made
to desire repression"?
Only a priest
would inflict
the stigmata of facism
on desire.
Deluze and Guatarri are preaching original sin...
***FASTBALL--STRIKE ONE***
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After this ghost story,
they figure the
marks are
softened up enough,
they transition from
shock and awe
to
shuck and jive,
more witch-doctors than play-popes..
Their "big finding"?
The totem they offer
to protect us
from the
disfigurements
of facism?
These gizmos
they call
'desiring machines'
and these miraculous
little doo-daas
turn raw people-juice
into the
the rainbow of social history.
(and you're already crawling
with them, you just
gotta use them)
Their miracle switch
can make worldly
the naive,
"ethically invest the socius"
and anything else
you can think of,
up to
and including
taking
a difficult shit
for you.
***THAT'S THE PITCH***
and it ain't
anywhere near
the strike zone...
(how the hell can you
use something with such
vague parameters?)
A "desiring machine"
is like
a motivation, but
spooked up
and with lousy controls...
Do motivations produce human behavior? (yes)
Does human behavior produce the revolution? (yes)
Wouldn't you like to know
how to produce the revolution? (well...)
by the time
the discussion
gets this abstract,
we're
spooked out...
***WILD PITCH--COUNT IS 1-1***
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D&G never fail to point out the
implicit danger
of desire
"folding back on itself,"
short-term
motivations no longer serving
the overall process of production,
becoming either
irrelevant, disruptive
or worse, encircling
and controlling it entirely:
decadence, addiction
and totalitarianism,
artifices gone rancid.
Their safegaurd?
"making oneself a body without organs"
(what a disgusting phrase)
While withdrawal
to the body may be the appropriate
counter to encirclement
to the Kapshow's spooky trip
(I prefer bull lee's "silence,
silenct
and the sanity drug apomorphine")
Deluze & Guatarri
mash down
desire into the machine
fusing
desire (the unique)
and
motivations (the disposable).
The combination
makes their
"desiring-machines"
a tragedy,
both
impossibly precious
and unable to survive.
***STRIKE 2***
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Such a simple thing as desire is uncorruptable!
First of all, it serves to follow the rigors
of need: what do we eat?
where do we sleep? when do we have sex?
these concerns guide our
social interaction
to a degree that should
not be surprising to anyone.
The motivations for revolution
are equally simple:
denial of comfort
and security
is
the basic operating tenent
of wage labor.
The aim of labor
is to support and sustain
human life.
But this is a long-sighted
view -- arial (or sattelite)
and here "in-country"
shorter-term imperatives
take over from
the geist of
"total human improvement"
D&G pose: if our motivations are structured by
capital's market,
and if this artifice gives desire its dominant form
in our real world,
does the only hope lie in
a radical mutation
(a "break-through of
the desiring-machines")
allowing us to fly
directly past the state-form?
Thier whole formulation is preposterous,
something hastily squirted out
under the bedsheets
of social democracy.
***STRIKE THREE AND YOU'RE OUT BOYS***
Posted by Sam at November 13, 2004 04:36 AM
perhaps the notion of internal contradiction
helps here
the active conflict that reconstructs
discontinuosly
motivations
but thru a spontaneous ever in motion
inner struggle of oppositions
we are never free of
both desire and loathing
no matter the target
even jesus
Posted by: meat me at November 11, 2004 05:58 PM
yes, but
that's for next
post
Posted by: sam at November 13, 2004 08:43 AM
means justify ends ?
no
but means modify ends
as means to ends go
Posted by: meats feet at November 13, 2004 01:03 PM
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