Eric Alliez's magnificient essay AntiOedipus Thirty Years On which'
s prefaced by
I, for my own part, made a sort of move into politics around May 1968…Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations
This title was suggested to me some months ago by my best enemy – or my best fiend, to paraphrase Werner Herzog – who also happens to be a very good friend: Alain Badiou. It was originally intended for a lecture I was to deliver under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Philosophy which Badiou recently set up at the École Normale Supérieure. The idea was to use the occasion to pursue our dispute – or chicane, to use a favourite expression of Badiou’s – a dispute instigated by the publication in 1997 of his book Deleuze: The Clamor of Being.
and this excerpt which I found useful in many ways . and relevant as always to the practices of art etc
'Against which we will affirmhere that the Anti-Oedipus- such as it mobilises, under the name of ‘Body without Organs’, the politics of sensationto which Artaud had devoted his convulsive constructions - grows out of all the movements which, in the art of the 20th century, ever since Jarry and Matisse the Hyper-fauvist knew how to free vitalism from the romantic expressiveness of the subject (therefore Dada rather than Surrealism, fauvism, a permanent fauvism, that of Matisse, as the rigorous alternative to cubism and to the Spiritual in abstract Art). In so doing, to borrow Foucault’s remark, the Anti-Oedipusworks as an ‘art’ - and an art of the self. ‘I shall reconstruct the man that I am’, Artaud affirms in this passage that Deleuze quotes in order to introduce us to this other world (‘We are in another world...’) which is that of the insurrection of the breath-wordsof the ‘body without organs’ of Artaud-the-Schizo against the language and surface effects of Carrollian structuralism : ‘Pas de bouche Pas de langue Pas de dents Pas de larynx Pas d’œsophage Pas d’estomac Pas de ventre Pas d’anus Je reconstruirai l’homme que je suis’ (‘No teeth No larynx No esophagus No stomach No intestine No anus I shall reconstruct the man that I am’).
For we need a ‘body without image’, that is to say, an Anti-Flesh, in order to replace every ‘image of the body’ (‘the latest avatar of the soul’, according to Deleuze & Guattari) and attain ‘the infinite of the decomposition of the socius’ on the basis of which one will be able to affirm‘the coextension of the social field and desire’13 and deny(deconstruct, destroy) the dominant structures, through a chaosmic immersion in the matters of sensation that these structures repress, and which will be put to work in the composition of mutant percepts and affects. What the Body Coststhe art that bears its name - Body Art, the art which has turned away from the stage (recall the anti-theatrical spirit of Nietzsche and Artaud)- a cost which it manifests in the unworldly squalor (l’im-monde) and the unruly dance of organs, or not(‘un corps neuf / où vous ne pourrez / plus jamais / m’oublier’, ‘a new body / in which you will never again / be able / to forget me’, Artaud announces), so that it may be able to produce Events capable of exceedingthe ‘democratic’ reformism of so-called ‘relational aesthetics’ (fill in the fissures in the social bond, etc.) by functioning as a fulcrum for a processual relaunch, between art and life....'
The Fauvisits were denounced as Wild Beasts when they first came along. Dada, & its endless incarnation suggests we make art from necessity not the phantasm of prize winning or "recognition" Poetry is a Way path a batch of becomings of the veil of the world[s], geology texts unearthing matrix uncovering the sands of death. Think with your bones O Writers. O writers of Canada with yer dead beat desire to be spoken and heard, be silent in your withdrawal & yer computer pomes strung along the edge of the void.
O Poets of America and religion. End the race. Purge yer religious unconscious.
Move the face out of black holes |hip the joints,
log marrow & thunder.
Alliez's essay puts paid to Zizek and Badiou's wrong headed criticisms of Deleuze[solo] & Deleuze and Guattari,
who were artisic philosophic thinkers.
as in philo so in poesy and writings becomings are first and foremost the trail to patch, wind and cut, the sheaves of death life life breath, the body without organs becomings which opens dozens of flight lines cutting thru passing thru the molar monstrosities of power poetics and power practices in poetry and criticisms. One could say this is manyness in action, always more to flourish.
Indeed one speaks of programmes of poetry not manifestos. let the passive verb become forceful slipping around the sides of yer readers bodies as a snake does preparing sex its numerous lovers.
Write in Latin when you write English. What is english? What is the name of the participial verb but a paradox struck by the side of its ornateness?
Mona moved in with (the) AntiOedipus.
they puchased a radio
had batteries and lovers________________
