Radio DelEuZe: A little geology lesson excerpt ~

____________Challenger lectures ___ a raspy metallic huggermugger audile

becomer.

Alors -------------------------------------> Intermittently the voice of a long 'dead' poet intervenes with snippets of an ancient narrative ... a creation becoming ...

'The industrial age defined as the age of insects ... It's even worse

nowadays: you can't even tell in advance which stratum is going to communicate

with which other,

or in what direction.

Above all, there is no lesser,

'Satan with thoughts inflam'd of highest design, [ 630 ]Puts on swift wings, and towards the Gates of Hell

Explores his solitary flight;'

no higher or lower, organization; the substratum is an integral part of the

stratum, is bound up with it as the milieu in which change occurs, and not

an increase in organization.

Furthermore, if we consider the plane of consistency

'som times

He scours the right hand coast, som times the left,

Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soares

Up to the fiery Concave touring high.' [ 635 ]

we note that the most disparate of things and signs move upon it: a

semiotic fragment rubs shoulders with a chemical interaction, an electron

crashes into a language, a black hole captures a genetic message, a crystallization

'As when farr off at Sea a Fleet descri'd
Hangs in the Clouds, by Æquinoctial Winds
Close sailing from Bengala, or the Iles
Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring
Thir spicie Drugs: they on the Trading Flood [ 640 ]
Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape
Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole.'

produces a passion, the wasp and the orchid cross a letter...

There

is no "like" here, we are not saying "like an electron," "like an interaction,"

etc.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists

is Real.

'So seem'd

Farr off the flying Fiend: at last appeer

Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid Roof,

And thrice threefold the Gates; three folds were Brass, [ 645 ]

Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock,

Impenetrable, impal'd with circling fire,

Yet unconsum'd. '

These are electrons in person, veritable black holes, actual

'but familiar grown,

I pleas'd, and with attractive graces won

The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft

Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing

Becam'st enamour'd, and such joy thou took'st [ 765 ]

With me in secret, that my womb conceiv'd

A growing burden. '

organites, authentic sign sequences.

It's just that they have been uprooted

'I know thee not, nor ever saw till now
Sight more detestable then him and thee.' [ 745 ]

from their strata, destratified, decoded, deterritorialized,

'Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem
Now in thine eye so foul, once deemd so fair'

and that is what

makes their proximity and interpenetration in the plane of consistency

possible.

A silent dance.

The plane of consistency knows nothing of differences

in level, orders of magnitude, or distances.

So wide they stood, and like a Furnace mouth
Cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame.
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear [ 890 ]
The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark
Illimitable Ocean without bound

It knows nothing of the difference

between the artificial and the natural.

It knows nothing of the

formed substances;

'Without dimension, where length, breadth, & highth,

And time and place are lost; where eldest Night

And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold [ 895 ]

Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise

Of endless Warrs, and by confusion stand. '

these things exist only by means of and in relation to the

strata.

But how can one still identify and name things if they have lost the strata

that qualified them, if they have gone into absolute deterritorialization?

'For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierceStrive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring

Thir embryon Atoms; they around the flag [ 900 ]

Of each his faction, in thir several Clanns,

Light-arm'd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow,

Swarm populous, unnumber'd as the Sands

Of Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil,

Levied to side with warring Winds, and poise '

Eyes are black holes,

'Before mine eyes in opposition sits'

but what are black holes and eyes outside their strata and territorialities?

' ... embraces forcible and foule

Ingendring with me, of that rape begot

These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry [ 795 ]

Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd '

What it comes down to is that we cannot content ourselves

with a dualism

I come no enemie, but to set free
From out this dark and dismal house of pain,
Both him and thee, and all the heav'nly Host
Of Spirits that in our just pretenses arm'd [ 825 ]
Fell with us from on high: from them I go
This uncouth errand sole, and one for all
Myself expose, with lonely steps to tread
Th' unfounded deep, and through the void immense''

or summary opposition between the strata and the

destratified plane of consistency.

The strata themselves are animated and

defined by relative speeds of deterritorialization; moreover, absolute

To whom these most adhere,
Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire sits,
And by decision more imbroiles the fray
By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter
Chance governs all.

deterritorialization is there from the beginning, and the strata are spinoffs,

Into this wilde Abyss, [ 910 ]
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,

thickenings on a plane of consistency that is everywhere, always primary

and always immanent.

'Into this wild Abyss '

In addition, the plane of consistency is

occupied, drawn by the abstract Machine;

the abstract Machine exists

simultaneously developed on the destratified plane it draws, and enveloped

in each stratum whose unity of composition it defines, and even

half-erected in certain strata whose form of prehension it defines. That

which races or dances upon the plane of consistency thus carries with it the

aura of its stratum, an undulation, a memory or tension.

The plane of

consistency retains just enough of the strata to extract from them variables

that operate in the plane of consistency as its own functions. The plane of

consistency, or planomenon, is in no way an undifferentiated aggregate

of unformed matters, but neither is it a chaos of formed matters of every

kind.

'Nor was his eare less peal'd [ 920 ]
With noises loud and ruinous (to compare
Great things with small) then when Bellona storms,
With all her battering Engines bent to rase
Som Capital City;'

It is true that on the plane of consistency there are no longer forms

or substances,

'or less then if this frame

Of Heav'n were falling, and these Elements [ 925 ]
In mutinie had from her Axle torn
The stedfast Earth.'

content or expression, respective and relative

deterritorializations.

'Audacious, but that seat soon failing, meets
A vast vacuitie:'

But beneath the forms and substances of the strata

the plane of consistency (or the abstract machine) constructs continuums

of intensity:

it creates continuity for intensities that it extracts from

distinct forms and substances.

Beneath contents and expressions the plane

of consistency (or the abstract machine) emits and combines

particles-signs that set the most asignifying of signs to functioning in the

most deterritorialized of particles.

Beneath relative movements the plane

of consistency (or the abstract machine) performs conjunctions of flows of

deterritorialization that transform the respective indexes into absolute

values.

The only intensities known to the strata are discontinuous, bound

up in forms and substances; the only particles are divided into particles of

content and articles of expression; the only deterritorialized flows are

disjointed and reterritorialized.

Continuum of intensities, combined

emission of particles or signs-particles, conjunction of deterritorialized

flows: these are the three factors proper to the plane of consistency; they

are brought about by the abstract machine and are constitutive of

destratification.

Now there is no hint in all of this

of a chaotic white

night or an undifferentiated black night.

'I upon my Frontieres here
Keep residence; if all I can will serve,
That little which is left so to defend [ 1000 ]
Encroacht on still through our intestine broiles
Weakning the Scepter of old Night: '

There are rules, rules of

"plan(n)ing," of diagramming, as we will see later on, or elsewhere. The

abstract machine is not random;

the continuities, emissions and combinations,

and conjunctions do not occur in just any fashion.

Ghost and philospher poets depart .....

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