Off to Korea for a bit (brrrr). Will pick up #Nomadology and such on my return. 👊
And for the Abrahamic trifecta, here’s what is possibly the preëminent work of Christian mysticism, the fourteenth-century “Cloud of Unknowing.” https://ia902909.us.archive.org/32/items/cloudofunknowing0000unse_h8l5/cloudofunknowing0000unse_h8l5.pdf
See you tomorrow for more “Nomadology”!
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.
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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
- Here’s a scene from “24 Hour Party People” in which Andy Serkis brilliantly inhabits Martin Hannett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90j6V8EjSuI
- And here’s what the results of that advice sound like, in Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” — as good a way of understanding the distinction between extensive movement and intensive speed as any I can imagine:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rcLhYRihks3t4lFPtHhQV
Enjoy these links and I’ll see you for more “Nomadology” tomorrow!
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
And here’s Herrigel’s “Zen in the Art of Archery” in full, on archive.org. It’s worth us noting what so often gets glossed blithely over, especially in early, sentimental Western Buddhist discussions of Herrigel: he was a Nazi, and not merely a “sympathizer” but an active member of the NSDAP and its cultural organizations. His interpretation of Zen cannot possibly have gone uninflected by his own affinity for the romantic elements in National Socialist thought.
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.506186/page/7/mode/2up
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
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. 👊
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.
...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!
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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. 👊
theorematic apparatus and its organization of work” Whew!
And they conclude by invoking the Bergsonian distinction between intuition and intelligence, where “only intelligence has the scientific means to solve formally the problems posed by intuition.” Kekulé dreams of the snake eating its own tail, in other words, but then wakes up and works out the structure of the benzene ring conventionally. The dream needs the equations to do meaningful work in the world...
...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!
…and I guess we’ll talk about night land nav and orienteering some other time.
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?
but that’s sufficiently daunting that I think we should take it up from a fresh start tomorrow.
Notes! Here, again, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is their entry on form and matter: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/form-matter/
Paulo Freire’s “banking model of education” is discussed in “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” in full here: https://files.libcom.org/files/Paulo%20Freire,%20Myra%20Bergman%20Ramos,%20Donaldo%20Macedo%20-%20Pedagogy%20of%20the%20Oppressed,%2030th%20Anniversary%20Edition%20(2000,%20Bloomsbury%20Academic).pdf
And here are Kingston’s own Heptones, with their big hit of 1973, “Book of Rules”: https://open.spotify.com/track/4PKri4OX2AB2RXj95Y9ZgB
See you tomorrow for more “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!
If anyone has any further insight into the enigmatic «Devenir fonctionnaire ou le travail de l’état», please do let me know. Otherwise, I’ll see you tomorrow for more “Nomadology”!
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
This is all a lot to absorb, so let’s leave it there for today. See you tomorrow!
Notes: I mentioned Incite Seminars; you can (and should) find them at https://inciteseminars.com
PKD’s “Exegesis” can be found here, in its anguished entirety: https://archive.org/details/exegesisofphilip0000dick
Here’s a splendid example of what I mean when I invoke Muybridge:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266429
Xenogothic is one post-Landian thinker whose extensive use of “the outside” may shed further light on the concept:
https://xenogothic.com/
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.
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
