Roy Roussel wrote:
> and if you read the later vols of the history of sexuality in the context of
> Rajchman's book on Lacan and Foucault and Deluze's short monograph on
> foucault you see a different side of his argument. In these works,
> subjectivization only takes place as the result of a relationship in which
> the subject has to affect itself in the context of a specific practice/set
> of rules. and while the specific rules can be transcended/changed the
> defining concept of practice can't. (He has a short essay in which he reads
> gay s/m practices in this context)
This seems to me related to the concept of "caution" in "A Thousand
Plateaus" (is it?):
"What does it mean to disarticulate, to cease to be an organism? How can we
convey how easy it is, and the extent to which we do it every day? And how
necessary caution is, the art of dosages, since overdose is a danger.
You don't do it with a sledgehammer, you use a very fine file. You invent
self-destructions that have nothing to do with the death drive. Dismantling
the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body
to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions,
levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and
territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a surveyor.
Actually, dismantling the organism is no more difficult than dismantling
the other two strata, signifiance and subjectification. Signifiance clings
to the soul just as the organism clings to the body, and it is not easy
to get rid of either. And how can we unhook ourselves from the points of
subjectification that secure us, nail us down to the dominant reality?
[...] Caution is the art common to all three; if in dismantling the
organism there are times one courts death, in slipping away from
signifiance and subjection one courts falsehood, illusion and hallucination
and psychic death."
-m
> and if you read the later vols of the history of sexuality in the context of
> Rajchman's book on Lacan and Foucault and Deluze's short monograph on
> foucault you see a different side of his argument. In these works,
> subjectivization only takes place as the result of a relationship in which
> the subject has to affect itself in the context of a specific practice/set
> of rules. and while the specific rules can be transcended/changed the
> defining concept of practice can't. (He has a short essay in which he reads
> gay s/m practices in this context)
This seems to me related to the concept of "caution" in "A Thousand
Plateaus" (is it?):
"What does it mean to disarticulate, to cease to be an organism? How can we
convey how easy it is, and the extent to which we do it every day? And how
necessary caution is, the art of dosages, since overdose is a danger.
You don't do it with a sledgehammer, you use a very fine file. You invent
self-destructions that have nothing to do with the death drive. Dismantling
the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body
to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions,
levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and
territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a surveyor.
Actually, dismantling the organism is no more difficult than dismantling
the other two strata, signifiance and subjectification. Signifiance clings
to the soul just as the organism clings to the body, and it is not easy
to get rid of either. And how can we unhook ourselves from the points of
subjectification that secure us, nail us down to the dominant reality?
[...] Caution is the art common to all three; if in dismantling the
organism there are times one courts death, in slipping away from
signifiance and subjection one courts falsehood, illusion and hallucination
and psychic death."
-m