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Jenny Hval: Paradise rot (2018)

Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time …

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Jenny Hval: Paradise rot (2018)

Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time …

started the audiobook a little while ago, it's very strange but i enjoyed it. it's a pretty gross book about decay, a poorly upkept house (full of fungi, insects, etc.) and people melting into one another. Also, there is a lot of urine in this book for some reason. it's also lesbian as hell. i am glad i listened to it, i should listen to some of jenny hval's music :3

Brent Adkins: Deleuze and Guattari's a Thousand Plateaus (2015, Edinburgh University Press)

“Thus it is not surprising that the distinction we were seeking was not between assemblages and something else but between two limits of any possible assemblage, in other words between the system of strata and the plane of consistency. We should not forget that the strata rigidify and are organized on the plane of consistency, and that the plane of consistency is at work and is constructed in the strata, in both cases piece by piece, blow by blow, operation by operation. (TP 337, emphasis added)”

This is perhaps the most succinct statement in A Thousand Plateaus of the basic thesis of this guide. Deleuze and Guattari do not see their task as one of sorting assemblages into “good” rhizomatic assemblages and “bad” arborescent assemblages. Rhizome and tree, consistency and organization, change and stasis—all of these oppositions are the two opposed limits of any assemblage. Perceptual semiotics consists in seeing the ways in which different assemblages construct and map out this opposition.

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Brent Adkins: Deleuze and Guattari's a Thousand Plateaus (2015, Edinburgh University Press)

From Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective, asking what is “innate” already presupposes too much. In particular, it presupposes an answer to the question of consistency, an arborescent answer. The innate/acquired dichotomy presupposes a rigid boundary between an organism and its environment, rather than supposing that an organism is a “selection of the exterior” and that the environment is a “projection of the interior.”

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i like that conception.

Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus (1991, Athlone Pr)

Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds. This was already true of the previous case. But now the components are used for organizing a space, not for the momentary determination of a center. The forces of chaos are kept outside as much as possible, and the interior space protects the germinal forces of a task to fulfill or a deed to do. This involves an activity of selection, elimination and extraction, in order to prevent the interior forces of the earth from being submerged, to enable them to resist, or even to take something from chaos across the filter or sieve of the space that has been drawn.

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Makes me think of abiogenesis. enclosing an area with a rudimentary cell wall that allows you the ability to organize and regularize certain functions in a way that opposes the chaos of primordial soup. also i should read about Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Dissipative Systems but that's neither here nor there.

C M Nascosta: Morning Glory Milking Farm (Paperback, 2021, Meduas Editoriale)

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