... to the Chinese

___________Just the title is enough to please. from this translator__________________

What Concepts Do: Preface to the Chinese Translation of A 

 

Thousand Plateaus

Brian Massumi

Université de Montréal, Montréal

Citation Information. Deleuze Studies. Volume 4, Page 1-15 DOI 10.3366/E1750224110000772, ISSN 1750-2241, Available Online March 2010 . 

  Brian Massumi Giant translator of the Epic One Thousand Plate   AusSSSSSSSSSSS ____

 CP: CD did you see Massumi back in the days of Vincennes.

CD:  O yes yes, I don't remember when I first noticed it as I've explained previous my head was often a haze of  . in them days. as it was the world was. Yet, it was the early 80s. You see there were so many there and we certainly did not all meet each other!  And as I had been sort of immersed in the milieus of so many kinds of people, it was hard to keep up, and as I told you I was not a student of philosophy... and I wouldn't say now O now I m not howerever back then ___ which back then?You know the by now somewhat notorious story of the concierge and others like it, the elevator man who used to go each week, ne'er spoke, nary a word from he uttered. Some people later said
it must have been the ghost of

Maurice Merleau Ponty who as you know was a midget .  And my girlfriend had her entourage she got to know some of the french intellectuals who were feminist and one of whom managed to save a lot of the old films or reels really, of Deleuze teaching ...

CP :So you are saying you didn't know him?
CD: that's practically  what I am saying . I had no idea who he was. I supposed if I had seen him I would said
O what a giant
 

O what a giant genius


A gentle giant of the white thighs  ~




beauty and pierced pure intelligence. The geniusof translating this text of   machine and organless bodies.

Later years Mister Massumi, did a favour for me sending me through a friend an article of Guattari's I wanted to read . Not being able to get hold of it myself. A musician  studying with him asked if he'd track down a copy. U see he had 

transferred it to Anglish way back.

and He did. very nicely and fast. Quick as the messenger service of the world mail can allow at that time. before email and such. just at the start really of its heyday

And that article was something felix guttari had written about Jean Genet my bastard father.

I was keen to read . for all sorta reason. one being i was keen to see how Guattari read Genet . and to see it fare with Uncle Sartre's take and maybe Mistah Dereader's  idears. As in Glas and so forth comparing to Saint Geneti

Geneti used to say that Uncle Sartre had alway. Got it right down pat with the Saint book. Hed say if someone asked O yes he was right righ on through everything he wrote about me is true. It was one 

had the impress

a proje t the two had going One to a write book about

the other

and the

Other to agree

(Other was the Biggest word Sartre liked. He

also was diggin big on Unreal and Derealize.

all of which reminded

of reterritory

&

deterritory

 but who had you read first?

Sartre but I heard and saw Deleuze first.

Sarte was a figure of the smoky past

of the existential

cafe

_______________ But

there's more to that than

Meets the Eye

Right Mister Guanetti

?

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 God rest his soul
in the fat waves
of immanent
ga~Love |

& the mighty folding of  its embrace   ~  

______________________ CP: Are you missing teeth, not all but a  few?
CD: O yea ....I thought you knew why do you ask...? 
CP: Sometimes you leave out letters when you speak  as in this word
right  and its sometimes
you leave out
the


T

at the end

so it sounds like on the tapes
that you had said
righ  ~ 

as in rye  ~
So I transcribe it the same way and as its I mean these tapes are not edited
(maybe never to be) I leave them
as it sounded




CD : that's good, I like that. its like not wearing a bra,
 becoming Bosch or JJ
and others
years 
ago ~  
  gone   ~

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 In the Twinkle
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Visiting reading, writing, lovin' , leavin'

Miller reads ~ passages of great depth and tears, tear wrenching soul gawking heart bending throat catching love lodes _ he is describing having to bring his cousin Emilia to the asylum at the behest of his family ___ It turns out she's a harmless hapless person... It's most strange listening to this account as it reads like a classic textbook case of the later work of Joe Berkes, Laing , and Guattari and others who intervened to assist and aid the very same types of people who continued to be victims, locked up and shackled one way or the other by the same types of families and civic bodies... the world's not changed much in 100 years...
"Henry you take her to the asylum tomorrow and

"And Now I am going to tell what these bastards said to me: During the journey I wept ... When people are too good in this world, they have to be put under lock and key. There's something wrong with people are who are too good ~ Even though she was a half wit she was good to me... the others are more intelligent but their hearts were bad.... I remember how happy she

was when she saw me coming... Why couldn't they make a place for her by the fire..a spot she

could just dream... why must everybody work? even the Saints and angels, why must

half-wits set an example? '

Pieced and figment pigmented stitched of pieces life

the cows by the first name... where does the moon go during the day...

even a puppy knows when its been taken to a pound to be drowned

I sobbed as I have never sobbed since I was a childhood.... no one looks exceptional ... you have to be crazy to see things so lucidly..

now if you're great it's one thing people will do anything for you..

but if you're only half great ... or nobody then what happens to you is lost...

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cultural book is necessarily a tracing:
already a tracing of itself, a tracing of the previous book by the same author,
a tracing of other books however different they may be, an endless tracing
of established concepts and words, a tracing of the world present, past, and
future. Even the anticultural book may still be burdened by too heavy a cultural
load: but it will use it actively, for forgetting instead of remembering,
for underdevelopment instead of progress toward development, in
nomadism rather than sedentarily, to make a map instead of

topic is nomads. What is lacking is a Nomadology, the opposite of a history.

There are rare successes in this also, for example, on the subject of the
Children's Crusades: Marcel Schwob's book multiplies narratives like so
many plateaus with variable numbers of dimensions. Then there is
Andrzejewski's book, Les portes duparadis (The gates of paradise), composed

of a single uninterrupted sentence; .... walking
with pauses, straggling, 

 

                               and forward rushes; the semiotic flow of the
confessions

............................................................................... all this with circles of convergence.

What is important is not whether the flows are "One or
multiple"—we're past that point: there is a collective assemblage of enunciation,
a machinic assemblage of desire, one inside the other and both
plugged into an immense outside that is a multiplicity in any case. A more
recent example is Armand Farrachi's book on the Fourth Crusade, La dislocation,
in which the sentences space themselves out and disperse, or else

jostle together and coexist, and in which the letters, the typography begin
to dance as the crusade grows more delirious.

These are models of

nomadic and rhizomatic writing. Writing weds a war machine and lines of
flight, abandoning the strata, segmentarities, sedentarily, the State
apparatus.

But why is a model still necessary

no mad

                  mad no

Is there a

need for a more profound nomadism than that of the Crusades, a

nomadism of true nomads,

or of those who no longer even move or imitate

anything? 

The nomadism of those who only assemble agencent.  

(question of translation ~ )

ho w  how  

How can how
the book  


                                                book                
find  find
  ind ~ 






an an an an an nnnnnnnnnnnanadequate outside with which to assemble in heterogeneity,
rather than a world to reproduce?

rather than a  


a world
a world

a 

world

to reproduce  ~

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SO YOU change the bite))_____________________(comings

_______________What are bite comings?____________

We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its

affects are, how they can or cannot enter into composition with other affects, with the affects of another body.

|ATP5: 257|

________________Cling to one /Climb other Fateau  ~











Bodies that fall prey to transcendence are reduced to what seems to persist across their alterations. ________________________________>

Their very corporeality is stripped from them, 

in favor of a supposed substrate–soul, 
_________________________>

subjectivity, personality, identity–which in fact is no foundation at all, but an end effect, 
__________________________________

the infolding of a forcibly regularized outside. 

Braian ___________Massumi, wroted dem words in a bookthing that was outs en  1992: ons pages 112

You will be a boy or a girl; a smoker or
a non-smoker; a civilized human being (with all bodily parts fulfilling civilized
‘human’ functions)’ or an animal. Your choice. You will subscribe to modern

selfhood ------------------------------ or  be rejected:
You will be organized, you will be an organism, you will articulate
your body–otherwise you’re just depraved. You be signifier and

signified, interpreter and interpreted–otherwise you’re just a deviant.

You will be a subject, nailed down as one, a subject of the enunciation
recoiled into a subject of the statement–otherwise you’re just a tramp.

ATP: 159)


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It must reduce
its own fluid complexities (I am male and sometimes feel like female, am told by men I I need to get laid, I have been a phone whore (who pays~) and
am mostly hetero but sometimes gay but only on Tuesdays and I occasionally
but only


when the moon is full . . .) to discrete categories (androgynous,
_________________________________. Languages, institutions and systems of thought all demand it,
and bodies rarely fail to accede. A body that smokes once becomes a smoker .



______________O mY Fanny   ~

It will likely be many at once. And although restratification

usually occurs according to preexisting categories (masochist,alcoholic,
 etc ), it can also–at least in liberal democracies (and

even then only very occasionally)–allow bodies to create their own entirely
new (but most often abjected) categories (Bbbababababbab Massumi ___; 1992)
_______Alterations   ~





YOU are?  O no. tha'toolimited. Be a trisexualbuiltforfour.
. I am a trisexual.  NOtE even: one is  dozen to the nth power?

I am a coffee-eater; a full-moon projector. A smoker; An

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The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the


time of ordinary experience, a space and a time of heightened attention . . .

evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting to hand, lungs,

breath, and mouth. It procures a little rush of infinity that alters perspectives,

 

however slightly, and permits, albeit briefly, an ecstatic standing outside of

oneself. Richard Klein, 1993: 16

Of course a lie is away of the real into the true virtual

young people know this

it breaks strata

opening sluice and epi

escaping lines thats how come come dogmats

dont get create

but




rebate







every schizo knows a rose's an unfolding petal ~ not a prising capital gain ` ~________________________________________---

Negotiations__________________Flee ~ .

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What do you know about me,

given that I believe in secrecy? … 

f I stick where I am, if I don't travel around,

like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely


and circuitously in what I write. … Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

 

Expérimenter de nouveaux langages pour produire de nouvelles subjectivités,

One sees, speaks and thinks on a

given scale, and according to a given line that may or may not conjugate

with the other's line, even if the other is still oneself. If it does not, then you

should not insist, you should not argue; you should flee, flee, even saying as

you go, "Okay, okay, you win."

It's no use talking; you first have to change

telescopes, mo_____________uths, and teeth, all of the segments. Not only does one ___________speak

____________________________________-
_______________

_____________

literally, _______________one also lives literally, in other words, following lines_________________________, whether

connectable or not, even heterogeneous ones. Sometimes it doesn't work
________________________________

____________________

when they are homogeneous.

of which

1874: THREE NOVELLAS, OR "WHAT HAPPENED?"

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'Deleuze.... Empiricism...'

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I have always felt that I am an empiricist . . . [My empiricism] is derived from the two characteristics by which Whitehead defined empiricism: the abstract does not explain, but must itself be explained;


and the aim is not to rediscover the eternal or the universal, but to find the conditions under which something new is produced (creativeness). (D vii; cf. N 88; WP 7)

From __ Mike Johnduff 's Blog : Working Notes_____________ notes on philosophy,

literary criticism, and theory ~.
In the beginning of Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze has an absolutely genius comment about empiricism, that brings out with unbelievable exactitude everything that Nietzsche saw in it as to its immense power to lead one towards an affirmation of difference beyond all sameness or identity--that is, a thought of representation not as a function of the present or of presence,

but of difference (expressed in the re-):

A book of philosophy should be in part a very particular species of detective novel, in part a kind of science fiction. By detective novel, we mean that concepts, with their zones of presence, should intervene to resolve local situations. They themselves change along with the problems. They have spheres of influence where, as we shall see, they operate in relation to "dramas" and by means of a certain "cruelty."


They must have a coherence among themselves, but that coherence must not come from them selves. They must receive their coherence from elsewhere.

This is the secret of empiricism. Empiricism is by no means a reaction against concepts, nor a simple appeal to lived experience. On the contrary, it undertakes the most insane creation of concepts ever seen or heard. Empiricism is a mysticism and a mathematicism of concepts, but precisely one which treats the concept as an object of an encounter, as a here-and-now, or rather as an Erewhon from which emerge inexhaustibly ever new, differently distributed "heres" and "nows."


Only an empiricist could say concepts are indeed things, but things in their free and wild state, beyond "anthropological predicates."

I make, remake and unmake my concepts along a moving horizon, from an always

decentered center, from an always displaced periphery which repeats and

differenciates them...

-Difference and Repetition, xx-xxi.

________________________ Working Notes Mike John Duff_____________

les avortés film 1970

En 1970 une bande de copains, certains élèves de Deleuze à la fac de Vincennes, mais tous fans d'Artaud de Dreyer et de Stroheim, en pleine périodes du Living theater participent à un film

underground réalisé par Jorge Amat et projeté au festival d'Avignon et à celui d'Amsterdam. Avec petrica Ionesco, Nadia, jorge Amat, Michel lebeau, François Salvatori et Jean François Pasto

l'abé-cédaire ( Culture ) + bonus spartan

_________________A molodios presentation of C as culture .. based on Big D's ideaRs

" L'acte lui-même, étant rapport, est toujours politique..."
( Gille Deleuze )
                                                                                                                                                   

" La société de masse ne veut pas la culture, mais les loisirs..."
( Hannah Arendt )




" Si vous ne pouvez être des saints de la connaissance, soyez-en au moins les guerriers..."
" Friedrich Nietzsche )

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______________________________________et some Milles Plateauxxx

1. Introduction : Rhizome. Racine, radicelle et rhizome – Problèmes des livres – L’Un et le Multiple – Arbre et rhizome – Les directions géographiques, Orient, Occident, Amérique – Les méfaits de l’arbre – Qu’est-ce qu’un plateau ?

2. 1914 - Un seul ou plusieurs loups ? Névrose et psychose – Pour une théorie d es multiplicités – Les meutes – L’inconscient et le moléculaire

3. 10 000 av. J.-C. - La géologie de la morale. Les strates – La double articulation (segmentarité) – Ce qui fait l’unité d’une strate – Les milieux – Diversité d’une strate : formes et substances, épistrates et parastrates – Le contenu et l’expression – La diversité des strates – Molaire et moléculaire – Machine abstraite et agencement : leurs états comparés – Métastrates

4. 20 novembre 1923 - Postulats de la linguistique. Le mot d’ordre – Le discours indirect – Mots d’ordre, actes et transformations incorporelles – Les dates – Contenu et expression : les variables dans les deux cas – Les aspects de l’agencement – Constantes, variables et variation continue – La musique – Le style – Majeur et mineur – Le devenir – Mort et fuite, figure et métamorphose

5. 587 av. J.-C.- Sur quelques régimes de signes. Le régime signifiant despotique – Le régime subjectif passionnel – Les deux délires et le problème de la psychiatrie – Histoire ancienne du peuple juif – La ligne de fuite et le prophète – Visage, détournement, trahison – Le Livre – Système de la subjectivité : conscience et passion, les Doubles – Scène de ménage et scène de bureau – La redondance – Les figures de la déterritorialisation – Machine abstraite et diagramme – Génératif, transformationnel, diagrammatique et machinique

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6. 28 novembre 1947 - Comment se faire un corps sans organes ? Corps sans organes et ondes, intensités – L’œuf – Masochisme, Amour courtois, Tao – Strates et plan de consistance – Antonin Artaud – Art de la prudence – Problème des trois Corps – Désir, plan, sélection et composition

7. Année Zéro - Visagéité. Mur blanc, trou noir – Machine abstraite de visagéité – Corps, tête et visage – Visage et paysage – Le roman courtois – Théorèmes de déterritorialisation – Fonctions sociales du visage – Le visage et le Christ – Les deux figures du visage : face et profil, le détournement – Défaire le visage

8. 1874 - Trois nouvelles ou « qu’est-ce qui s’est passé ? ». Nouvelle et conte : le secret – Les trois lignes – Coupure, fêlure, rupture – Le couple, le double et le clandestin

9. 1933 - Micropolitique et segmentarité. Segmentarité, primitive et civilisée – Molaire et moléculaire – Le fascisme et le totalitarisme – Ligne à segments, flux à quanta – Gabriel Tarde – Masses et classes – Machine abstraite : la mutation et le surcodage – Qu’est-ce qu’un centre de pouvoir ? – Les trois lignes et les dangers de chacune – Peur, clarté, pouvoir et mort

10. 1730 - Devenir-intense, devenir-animal, devenir imperceptible. Le devenir – Trois aspects de la sorcellerie : les multiplicités ; l’Anomal ou l’Outsider ; les transformations – Individuation et Heccéité : 5 heures du soir – Longitude, latitude et plan de consistance – Les deux plans, ou les deux conceptions du plan – Devenir-femme, devenir-enfant, devenir-animal, devenir-moléculaire : zones de voisinage – Devenir imperceptible – La perception moléculaire – Le secret – Majorité, minorité, minoritaire – Caractère minoritaire et dissymétrique du devenir : double-devenir – Point et ligne, mémoire et devenir – Devenir et bloc – Opposition des systèmes ponctuels et des systèmes multilinéaires – La musique, la peinture et les devenirs – La ritournelle – Suite des théorèmes de déterritorialisation – Le devenir contre l’imitation

11. 1837 - De la ritournelle. Dans le noir, chez soi, vers le monde – Milieux et rythme – La pancarte et le territoire – L’expression comme style : visages rythmiques, paysages mélodiques – Le chant des oiseaux – Territorialité, agencements et inter-agencements – Le territoire et la terre, le Natal – Problème de la consistance – Agencement machinique et machine abstraite – Le classicisme et les milieux – Le romantisme, le territoire, la terre et le peuple – Art moderne et cosmos – Forme et substance, forces et matériau – La musique et les ritournelles, la grande et la petite ritournelle

12. 1227 - Traité de nomadologie : la machine de guerre. Les deux pôles de l’État – Irréductibilité et extériorité de la machine de guerre – L’homme de guerre – Mineur et majeur : les sciences mineures – Corps et esprit de corps – La pensée, l’État et la nomadologie – Premier aspect : machine de guerre et espace nomade – La religion – Orient, Occident et État – Deuxième aspect : machine de guerre et composition des hommes, nombre nomade – Troisième aspect machine de guerre et affects nomades – Action libre et travail – Nature des agencements : outils et signes, armes et bijoux – La métallurgie, l’itinérance et le nomadisme – Phylum machinique et lignées technologiques – Espace lisse, espace strié, espace troué – La machine de guerre et la guerre : complexité du rapport

13. 7 000 av. J.-C. - Appareil de capture. L’État paléolithique – Groupes primitifs, villes, États et organisations mondiales – Anticiper, conjurer – Sens du mot « le dernier » (marginalisme) – L’échange et le stock – La capture : propriété foncière (rente), fiscalité (impôt), travaux publics (profit) – Problèmes de la violence – Les formes d’État, et les trois âges du Droit – Le capitalisme et l’État – Assujettissement et asservissement – L’axiomatique et ses problèmes

14. 1440 - Le lisse et le strié. Modèle technologique (textile) – Modèle musical – Modèle maritime – Modèle mathématique (les multiplicités) – Modèle physique – Modèle esthétique (l’art nomade)

15. Conclusion : Règles concrètes et machines abstraites

p e r f e c t b o d y

                                 

a lecture by Hassan Choubassi on the 1st of March 2010

Paris, Centre National pour les media

Camera: Abdallah Ahmad / LIU studio

voice over: Gilles Deleuze's lecture "l'image automatique" at Paris VIII 1981

 

___________________________________Get a Perfect B o d y ___________________________________________________________________________

writing ...et collage video de Silvio Cadelo ~

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? 

It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separate our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.

Only in this manner are we resolved to write. 

To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. 

 

Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threantening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.

Difference and Repetition

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                                                                Now you are wise  ~

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