grasp the point of this sequence. (It’s frustrating to run up against the limits of one’s own language that way, but then there’s something salutary and instructive about that, too.)

Let’s leave things there for today? And in the meantime, we can enjoy this exploration of the vortical qualities of number in its occupation of space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTr_HS_O4Ek

See you for further adventures in #nomadology tomorrow!

So, #nomadology fans, when we left off our inquiry in mid-November we were just getting into the question of the “nombre nombrant,” the “Numbering number,” and trying to get our heads around what Deleuze & Guattari meant us to understand by their use of the term.

Let’s get back to #nomadology tomorrow, shall we? Combing closely through D&G sounds like a *great* way to stay sane.

Off to Korea for a bit (brrrr). Will pick up #Nomadology and such on my return. 👊

Oh, say: could you give me a quick show of hands if you’ve followed this read-through of #Nomadology, either in whole or in part? I’m trying to get a sense of who’s on the other side of the screen – needn’t be more than a “👋,” thanks.

Good news for everyone who’s been following this unfolding of “Nomadology,” or trying to, who would prefer the convenience of a single long piece: I’ve now published Part I of Notes on “Nomadology” as a free post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-part-i-142961660

Feel free to share the link with friends, or anyone else you think might be interested!

#deleuze #guattari #deleuzeandguattari #nomadology #athousandplateaus #theory #philosophy

Good news for everyone who’s been following this unfolding of “Nomadology,” or trying to, who would prefer the convenience of a single long piece: I’ve now published Part I of Notes on “Nomadology” as a free post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-part-i-142961660

Feel free to share the link with friends, or anyone else you think might be interested!

#deleuze #guattari #deleuzeandguattari #nomadology #athousandplateaus #theory #philosophy

Finally! We return to our long slow consideration of #Nomadology! Welcome back.

Here we leave behind the question of noölogy — of royal or State thought, versus its nomad or minor others — and take up a somewhat different, more concrete set of concerns. Our arrival at this point is set off in the text thusly:

“Axiom 2: The war machine is the invention of the nomads (insofar as it is exterior to the State apparatus and distinct from the military institution)...

Currently collating the *several thousand words* of #Nomadology posts, as preparation for resuming our inquiry. This exegesis may well run to the length of the text itself.

Before I kick off #Nomadology for today, I just wanted to mention something that happened to me yesterday that both moved me and made me reconsider a decision.

I was doing a podcast interview with a guy who’d come down from Edinburgh — the conversation was great, but I’ll let you find out about it through sharing his link, when it goes live — and he said something that really made me think. He’d read “Lifehouse,” carefully, and said something to the effect of: this seems so obviously founded in

OK! We’re onto the next subdivision of #Nomadology, which appears thusly in the text:

“Problem 2: Is there a way to extricate thought from the State model?

Proposition 4: The exteriority of the war machine is attested to, finally, by noology.”

In the wake of our extended consideration of the entanglement of royal & nomad science, that first bit’s transparent enough. And at this point we’re sufficiently immersed in D&Gese that even “the exteriority of the war machine” reads straightforwardly.

I want to ask you-all a question, btw — both those of you who’ve been following our reading of “ #Nomadology” from the beginning, as well as folks who have tuned out or otherwise dropped off along the way:

To what degree would it be useful to have this whole exploration worked up as a self-contained, stand-alone #zine or pamphlet? Is that something you’d dig?

Let me know, yeah? If there’s enough interest, I’ll gin this material up in a form you can slip in a rucksack or a back pocket. 👊

...but the calculations can never be posed without the dream.

And here we bring the passage distinguishing royal or State science from nomad, minor or ambulant science to its end.

Notes: Here’s a piece on Bergson’s “intelligence” and “intuition” (here glossed slightly differently as “intellect” and “instinct”): https://grantmaxwellphilosophy.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/intellect-and-intuition-in-henri-bergson/

And here’s the conventional take on Kekulé’s dream of the snake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#Kekul%C3%A9's_dream

We’ll proceed to the next section of #Nomadology tomorrow!

It’s been a whole two weeks. I’ve been to Berlin and back, sat out a cold even, but now I’m back on my bullshit! Fully fueled and ready to go! How about you? Ready to get back into some #Nomadology?

OK! We’re back into “#Nomadology,” w/further thoughts on the distinction between “royal” & “nomad” ways of knowing.

The discussion here is one of those passages where either D&G’s understanding of the sciences is so much subtler & so far exceeds my own that some of the specific analogies they are making remain obscure to me, or they are waving their hands & talking complete bollocks. But either way, it is still possible for me to retrieve sense from the argument, and that sense is valuable.

Just a heads up that I’m going to be on the road the next several days (first the Festival of Commoning in Stroud over the weekend, then Amsterdam and Berlin), so our exploration of “#Nomadology” may be somewhat intermittent until that’s all dans le sac. Full service to resume shortly!

Oh, and: I note that our slow, careful walk through this fairly short book is two weeks old today. I hope you’re enjoying the process as much as I am! #deleuze #guattari #deleuzeandguattari #nomadology

Oh, by the way: a bunch of you have asked if it’s OK to share the link to this reading with friends.

Of course it is! It’s why I made the whole thing public in the first place. The conversation begins here: https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/115084166276097771

PLEASE NOTE that there are a few places where Mastodon’s handling of very long threads seems to break down. If it seems like the discussion has come to a dead end…it hasn’t, though you may need to click around some.

#nomadology #deleuze #guattari #deleuzeandguattari

I got this down off the shelf because it’s relevant to one of the things I’m working on, and because – some 39 years after buying it and reading it for the first time – I feel like I’m finally in a position to understand and make use of it. Follow along with me, as I do a reasonably close reading of it here? It ought to be a fair amount of fun. #nomadology #deleuzeandguattari #deleuze #guattari