Radio DelEuZe: zoēpolitics: The Nonsense of Logic

3.8.07

zoēpolitics: The Nonsense of Logic

zoēpolitics: The Nonsense of Logic

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'Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two of the most famous examples of what is often described (in somewhat confusing terms), as 'literary nonsense'. Hence the keen interest shown towards them by Gilles Deleuze in the opening chapters of The Logic of Sense, which play extensively with the sense/nonsense dyad. At the same time, Carroll's two most famous tales also interest him because they critique the notion of 'sense' itself, dislodging any pretension that it could somehow exist as a power-free knowledge of 'the depths', of 'nature', of 'the organic'. Indeed, as we quickly find out, Alice's primary discovery in the course of the adventure is, in essence, that she has no originary essence; she, who 'is Alice' also is 'not Alice' - identity is nothing more than inscription (or better yet, conscription). As Deleuze puts it, "it is not a question of the adventures of Alice, but of Alice's adventure: her climb to the surface, her disavowal of false depth and her discovery that everything happens at the border. This is why Carroll abandons the original title of the book: Alice's Adventures Underground". It is from this perspective that I would suggest Spike Lee's most outstanding film Bamboozled (2000) should be watched, especially since the 'alternatives' are either to read it as 1) positing an originary benign identity for African-Americans that could somehow exist prior to its inscription, or 2) to naturalize the predominant malignant inscription, as if it were the only possible one. That both Delacroix and his father overcome the limits of the subjectivity into which they have been delivered, as well as participate in the reproduction of some of its most damaging aspects (that is, as it has been formed under the order of whiteness), only make Alice's adventure that much more relevant in the face of a constantly changing order of racial formation; as Deleuze emphasizes, "the loss of Alice's proper identity and name is repeated through all her adventures".

__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

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As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

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 separates 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 threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.