9.24.2010

Dosse the Zany Biographer of Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze

CP who is taping naked today : Tell me about Dosse C.D.

CD The first time I heard this zany historian was in Paris about a year or two before his book was published. He's a hoot. and well worth hearing. He's rescued Guattari and also reterritorialized Deleuze from the reactionaries who wanted to seperate him! He's a true bee buzzing the orchid! a burrow digger in spite of his errors! Peace be upon his multitudinous brain & head ~ .

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Francois Dosse, author of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, has been touring the country discussing the book. To packed houses at NYU, Columbia, and Harvard, Dosse has been discussing the somewhat unlikely partnership that had a profound effect on post-1968 thinking.

(Dosse will also be inBaltimore, Alabama, and California over the next few days to discuss the book.) For our French-speaking readers, below is a video of Dosse discussing the book:
For those who don’t speak French, here is a brief excerpt from theIntroduction describing the nature of their collaboration. (The Introduction also discusses how the two found each other and how each served an important intellectual function for the other.)
The two men created a veritable laboratory for testing their ideas, thanks to the transversal nature of their work. Guattari’s contribution to Deleuze was above all a breath of fresh air in a rarefied universe. “You felt that he rejoiced in his meetings with Félix. They seemed happy to be meeting, although they didn’t see each other much because they knew how delicate human relations can be.”
The differences in their personalities produced a two-speed machine: “Our rhythms were always different. Félix complained that I didn’t respond to his letters, but I could not answer immediately; it took me one or two months, by which time Félix had already moved on.” By contrast, however, when they worked together, each would force the other into taking firm positions, and this would go on until both fighters were exhausted and the idea they were discussing and arguing about had taken off; something like a “setting” or foundation for the idea arose from their work of proliferation and dissemination: “I considered that Félix had real insights, whereas I was a kind of lightning rod stuck in the ground so that the idea could take a different shape, and then Félix corrected it, etc. That’s how our work developed

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Francois Dosse speaking at

________________________One to go one gone   ~  intersecting the lives of the orchid and bee   ~ ____________________




Fri., Sept. 24, 4 p.m. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by historian Francois Dosse. Co-sponsored by the Centre Louis Marin. 479 Gilman.  


If yer at John Hopkins or in the neighbourhood  this will be worthwhile hearing   ~.






Lecture in French by François Dosse: « Deleuze et Guattari, un couple intellectuel singulier »

Harvard University Senior Common Room, Kirkland House, A-entry
85, Dunster Street, Cambridge
September 23rd at 6pm


Intellectual historian François Dosse will  (have) gA(i)ve(n) a speech on the relationship and interactions between two major figures of the contemporary French intellectual world: philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychotherapist Félix Guattari. After meeting in 1969, they produced several fundamental philosophic works together. 

Dosse is professor at the IUFM Créteil, the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, and the Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines de l’université Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He is the author of numerous books including a two-volume history of structuralism. Photo: Gilles Deleuze






9.23.2010

__________________ the open sea ...



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The book I did wasn't about the history of philosophy, it's something
I wanted to do with him, with the idea I have of him and my
admiration for him. If there was any poetry in the book, one might
see it as what poets call a tombeau.


 I  differed from him only on very
minor things: what he called an apparatus, and what Felix and I called
arrangements, have different coordinates, because he was establishing
novel historical sequences, while we put more emphasis on geographical
elements, territoriality and movements of deterritorialization.



We were always rather keen on universal history, which he
detested. 


But being able to follow what he was doing provided me
with essential corroboration.


 He was often misunderstood, which
didn't get in his way but did worry him. 


People were afraid of him,
that's to say his mere existence was enough to stop idiots braying.


 Foucault
fulfilled the function of philosophy as defined by Nietzsche:
being bad for stupidity. 

Thinking, with him, is like diving down and
always bringing something back up to the surface. 


A thought that



folds this way and that, then suddenly bursts open like a spring. I
don't in fact think he was particularly influenced by Leibniz.




Although there's a remark in Leibniz that applies particularly well to
him: "I thought I'd reached port, but found myself thrown back onto
the open sea.


Thinkers like Foucault advance by lurching from one
crisis to another, there's something seismic about them.




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 and as Corry Shores  always graciously does    so we too thank you 
 text excerpt of Deleuze (Negotiations)  and  Martin Joughin the  noble translator  of these words
from francais to  english
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A course is a kind of Sprechgesang,closer to music than to theater.
Indeed there's nothing in principle to stop courses being a bit like a
rock concert. 




's nothing in principle to stop courses being a bit like a
rock concert

It must be said that Vincennes (and it was the same after
we'd been forcibly transferred to Saint-Denis) provided exceptional
conditions. In philosophy, we rejected the principle of "building up
knowledge" progressively: 




there were the same courses for first-year
and nth-year students, for students and nonstudents, philosophers
and nonphilosophers, young and old, and many different nationalities.




ilosophy, we rejected the principle of "building up
knowledge" progressively: 


there were the same courses for first-year



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There were alwaysyoung painters and musicians there, filmmakers,
architects, who showed great rigor in their thinking. They were
long sessions, nobody took in everything, but everyone took what
they needed or wanted, what they could use, even if it was far removed
from their own discipline 






There was a period marked by abrupt interventions,
often schizophrenic, from those present, then there was the
taping phase, with everyone watching their cassettes, but even then
there were interventions from one week to the next in the form oflittle
notes I got, sometimes anonymously.






 phase, with everyone watching their cassettes, but even then
there were interventions from one -------------------------------------------There's a special relation between philosophy and neurology,

which comes out in the associationists, in Schopenhauer, in Bergson.osophy and neurology,

which comes out in the association



Our current inspiration doesn't come from computers but from the
microbiology of the brain: the brain's organized



, more
like grass than a tree, "an uncertain system,,,with probabilistic, semialeatory,
quantum mechanisms. It's not that our thinking starts from
what we know about the brain but that any new thought traces
uncharted channels directly through its matter, twisting, folding, fissuring
it. 


It's amazing how Michaux does this. New connections, new
pathways, new synapses, that's what philosophy calls into playas it creates
concepts, but this whole image is something of which the biology
of the brain, in its own way, is discovering an objective material likeness,
or the material working.


Something that's interested me in cinema is the way the screen
can work as a brain, as in Resnais's films, or Syberberg's. Cinema



 What was interesting about pop videos at the outset
was the sense you got that some were using connections and
breaks that didn't belong to the waking world, but not to dream
either, or even nightmare. For a moment they bordered on something
connected with thought. This is all I'm saying: there's a hidden
image of thought that, as it unfolds, branches out, and mutates,
inspires a need to keep on creating new concepts, not through any
external determinism but through a becoming that carries the problems
themselves along with it.



 everyone took what
they needed or wanted, what they could use, even if it was faR








9.22.2010

Levée de corps


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9.21.2010

quotes and ...crackers

________________All pure I fictives. every I in this poem is a deterritorialization in becoming   ~ 








' callips and snap '



A thous_ and tiny sexes _ my queer lover ~ . we're cut into boxes, blues, bullies, territoriies. what face is this you hold, held to my visage in your hand, in your sex. what double joined one is     ?









the machines


Movies, shit, poetry



the machiNes

the machines of yer face
of your ass
assophrenia
yer bod y cut across yer wild's face
this is your nasturbation|



it's the anaoedipal break &; cut cupage which makes the difference


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she's smoking god





One morning the AntiChrist met Antioedipus they did a dance of plateau and plateau Do [not] join us at

AntiOedipus




shes smoking like love's chimney ~ .




the raven






The beginning of the Raven, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe. Peter Lorre as the raven 

braque was picasso's rival and friend










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my first schizophrenic girlfriend was i was 18 she was 19  ~
i have no more patience for that. today  onthe bus & the pharmacy    ~ and 
on the street  ~ the 'mental' person case woman asking EVERY SINGLE PERSON
for two dollars


 then blowing her cough right across the aisle 
 of the same bus


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in the pharmacy behind me I told cover your mouth
cover
(she seemed to pursue me like a mad fury but really she was no fury
but a dumpy rundown 'nut' of some origin   ~
and go to Project Pal they can help you


(she asked me will you pay for my .... )


 she smiled sortof the half kempt look ofthe medicated mad 
lopsided  smile.. ... asked Will they pay for my cough medicine

I said they can help you go




I walked away   ~

I was sick of her sick of it sick of it all I am sick migraines...  head clamp... brain eyes sore... no reading... no
int




I wend down thes treet I see a drunken man I know him I go speak to him


he's wearing a baseball cap it says D &p; G 
on it
I take a photo he asked  for a smoke
I gave him one two 


I said let me take a picture of your hat
he said take it take the hat
I said No


I want a  picture I took it he said Okay
I took it




I thought that was precipitous






I thought it was

I went to give my talk



It went well
I am tired
headache clamp



I went for coffeewith Robert
We talked and he talked he did
he said I am hungry
we both ate BLT's


we talkedof old new and new new and now
and  we stayed till nearly 11    ~


He told me about his daughters his wife
his ....


yes
we walked to the subway together
I embraced him around the arm


as 
parted ways each 


 and 










_____________________ that was/ is my report Professor Deleuze . that s my day and night and I have come to the god of immanence I have seen the flight. re-reading Paradise Lost bOok 6 I was convinced again how wrong the god was . the monotheistic claimer versus the flight angels the bad guysthe good guys
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Tune in  for more episodes from The Psychotic Doctor   ~ .

 FM
AM
Radio Self  ~
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9.10.2010

full an filled


you'r e full of love's brown shit









yeah  but thats another story







lov'es brown paper

_____________ arrested by god ~ man an d furtive trucks ~






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__love's __lo___
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9.02.2010

rimbaud the pirate ...




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     By    a fine synchronicity Corry Shores has published a detailed  explanation about Arthur Rimbaud's 1871 letter to his teacher George Izambard ~    the contiguousness of Corry's  expository essay and the fictional Vico text on language and love works as a chiming of two plateaus meeting across the discussion room of space.   


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    deleuze oedipus rimbaud
   December 2002__January 1728


________Rimbaudboyo sends his missive to the four tales of the wind. The winding tail that thrusts his keyboard forward.     

rimbaudboyo@burrow 42

To the gents:


You keep writing as if I don't love you, but you don't realize she loves you as we all do, none was there to meet you. I don't even know that guy in England; what is his so called name?
Don't worry everyone loves you but i am not a real I, my I was shattered years ago.furthermore i have no desire to reassemble it. i hate the Christmas and rest of it, they force me to play games i don t wish to play. i almost killed myself, but i got a hair cut instead because now I look like a concentration camp man.
but you made fun of me too so what did u expect.
you mocked me when i said lets speak. gentleness you say? oh then let it be gentle.
i love you,
signed,

Giambattista Vico



Another tender miss:

dear __________

the truth is out. i spoke to someone that knows Ye. You are not
schizo. I am sorry to inform you, but that is not your fate. You are alcoholic. this means yer ego is intact. Schizos don't have an ego. Or if they do it's of a different nature than your rough version of one. Until you are sober if and when you are sober, but mostly u are drunk. to keep the shattered ego 'together'. Otherwise read  Lowry and Logic of Sense/ The couple of the manic and the alcoholic.



A 3rd letter in hot pursuit follows : Rimbauboyo speaks triple deckered lover  letters.




But someone  met him a long time ago. her name is Ringo Rivale, but someone told me he was thrown out by Fanny Deleuze!! cause he was bothering Deleuze with some questions!


Arthur recalls sarcastic asides, remarks, and so called rebuttals.
'Is this troubling still you, so poor baby, alors do sum yummie muzix with yer lafter when you laugh a good
deal and you'll be relaxed when you write.' Arthur writes to herself and
Giambattista.



____________Signed A. Rimbaud Giambattista Vico 1725
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                        Jill and Mona get into the act.

Arthur 

What am I doing here with you? Speaking of words and your body rough as the wind. Kind winding of its tail tracking the spotted leopard of love. Almost god's? A monstrous wordgod to clobber the whole world. Shit as stuff to harbinger its latest bargain.


Your needy grammarian sister Isabelle.


___________ Besides you knew that I was love itself the box of. Not a true fabrication but the fire . Standing by the bed. And along the coast of Africa coming home back. The words rough hewn to the soaking heart desire.




Does a dead poet comprehend this? you speak of France as if I was there for you , when in fact. I am a dog of night. My love is in draft form.


I come again for you. My true love of the Korean bakery.


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