Days borrowed broadcastings: as which to see afford thought:Space without walls
"Noted:
It would have been something to behold. In 2004 Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn was invited to create a piece for the Walker Art Center 'Walker Without Walls' series.
His idea: To build a 50 foot replica of the book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari..."
Indeed!~ Indeed ~ ~.
[The] project will function not only as a mega-sculpture, but as an ambitious center for philosophy. Deleuze and Guattari's book is a landmark of continental thought, one that explodes philosophy by exploring it in terms of a host of other disciplines: from popular film and music to genetics and ecology. Hirschhorn will create his provocatively large book-structure in this spirit of bringing philosophy to life, compelling the community to question what role philosophy plays on the street. The artist will be on site every day of the project to animate a series of challenging lectures, produce and distribute a daily newspaper, and invite the participation of the community. As a giant bookkeeper, he will create a library and a "Galazy of Philosophy" exhibition in a room inside the book, as well as host a community run caf� right outside. "It's a project for the love of art in Minneapolis," Hirschhorn says, and The Road-Side Giant Book Project, while far too large to be flying off the shelves and far too heavy to be "unputdownable," promises to deliver a profound thud on the Lake Street doormat this summer."Hirschhorn realized that by placing the work in such a neighborhood it would most likely be the subject of vandalism and graffitii � "all risks, he says, that are integral to a project he alternately called an experiment, an affirmation, and a confrontation."
So why wasn't such an intriguing project never completed?
"The project unfortunately outgrew its budget and was never realized" is how Paul Smeltzer frames it but I can see other factors coming into play for this is a very political piece."
outgrew outsized the gigantic plateau! a folding sheet of desire! a mammoth book tothe sky.
and this connector :
struggleswithphilosophy
quoting machine : citing, In-siteings :
"If the politics of Deleuze and Guattari seem implicit or are lost in their rhetoric then Brian Massumi comes across explicitly. Here are some quotes from his 'Introduction to Capitalism and Schizophrenia' book about gender and singularities:
"Man" and "Woman" as such have no reality other than that of logical abstractions. What they are abstractions of are not the human bodies to which they are applied, but habit forming attractors to which society expects it bodies to become addicted.' (p86-87)
'No body is "masculine" or "feminine"' (p87)
'A body does not have a gender: it is gendered' (p87)
'Gender is a form of imprisonment, a socially functional limitation of a body's connective and transformational capacity' (p87)
'The ultimate goal, for Deleuze and Guattari, is neither to redefine, misapply, or strategically exaggerate a category, nor even invent a new identity. Their aim is to destroy categorical gridding altogether, to push the apparatus of identity beyond the threshold of sameness, into singularity.' (p88)
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seems some of this is "old" . Love an ancient work ofr its novelities. loves an ancient cite for its preparedness for New
