Deleuze and Guattari Quarantine Collective

Yes this is 4.3, despite what I say confusingly at the start! D&G Dive here into the moves Psychoanalysis makes across experience, and how the psychoanalytic field has substituted so much myth and story for social and desiring production.

You know that Marx guy? You should read his book. It would be sueful here. Also, in life. Of course it's AO so a million books would be useful. After the overt crtiqiues last week the book dives deeper and goes harder at the way general psychoanalytic thought does more than just oedipalize.

Back on track, we continue down into 4.3 as the critique of psychoanalysis and the relation to it's work within the capitalist socius plays out.

Finally ending Chapter 3, we move back into Oedipus, the way the universal history as built all the parts necessary, and how it all finally comes together. This episode comes after a hiatus thanks to having another child, so expect new episodes more rapidly from here out!

Andrew Novick has a colorful past, having punk bands, art exhibits, a campaign to save Casa Bonita - but along the way he also happened to become the owner of a small pink tricycle that belonged to JonBenet Ramsey, the little girl famous for being strangled to death on Christmas in Boulder Colorado. The DGQC watched the film, and then spent over an hour talking through the implications of it, the scenes, people, background, media, and even just bullshitting as old people do about the 'good old days' as things within denver had changed. I hope you enjoy

Continuing with our discussion of the two regimes, why we have them and how they are useful, we end finally as we move towards schizoanalysis.

This whole book? Finally starting to piece together why they took us on this journey. However for now, it's back to the desiring machines, their functions, the syntheses, lack, and the rest.

So, with all we have read to this point, where does the analysis begin? Psychoanalysis has it's spot, which they've critiqued. So where does Schizoanalysis begin?

Finishing out the section, we close up some questions I get confused again, and then I pretend to not be, and then am shown again to be confused. It ends well. Unless I'm confused again.

So, time for Marx, time for Commodity, and time for Seinfeld references, all int he service of understanding exactly how representation operates within Capitalism!

Just as how the Despotic shifted how we might find meaning, how we make sense, and how representation works at a fundamental level, the Capitalist machine has it's own form of representation. It works very, very differently. It's a difficult one. Bear with us.

We continue the discussion around Capital, Commodity, Marx, Das, Macluhan, salaries, the rich, Hasan, and more as we dig into how D&G break down the functioning of Capital flows.

We continue here and dive into Capital v Money, the alliant and the filiative. We also spend perhaps a bit too much time on translation questions of Flow v Flux. If that discussion bored you, drop at the 2 hour mark when I do the outro, otherwise stay on for 30 minutes of us breaking down the difference a word makes. And it's pretty huge.

Money isn't capital, fiat isn't either. Money and Capital are strange elements that find themselves crossing each-other as the filiative or alliant once did. This section dives deep into the difference, the elements, and how it comes to manage the machine of production across everything

As we move from the primitive, a new machine is created, The Urstaat. How it operates on society should be familiar, or will become familiar, but here D&G make their case that we aren't talking about many states in succession, but a single UrStaat simply changing form.

Not an easy one, here we answer questions and discuss parts of the section we still have issues with after all this time.

With the new socius comes a new way of representation. A new way meaning is built and generated. you might say, a new logic of sense. The way signification works, the way language has been created, and the form it takes all shift how perceptions of the world work - and this one is a doozy. Part three moves into precursors for what is to come. Written words, spoken words, language, representation and more are starting to exist as we now know them.

With the new socius comes a new way of representation. A new way meaning is built and generated. you might say, a new logic of sense. The way signification works, the way language has been created, and the form it takes all shift how perceptions of the world work - and this one is a doozy. Part two here gets deep into the unification of graphism and voice, the creation of language as we know it, and the way there is a tiny fascist waiting inside almost every word we say

With the new socius comes a new way of representation. A new way meaning is built and generated. you might say, a new logic of sense. The way signification works, the way language has been created, and the form it takes all shift how perceptions of the world work - and this one is a doozy.

All lines trace back to the despot. Everything we once did through natural obligation to the family, we do for him. All we once did for alliances and the tribe, he gets. And somehow the functionaries of ijt all feel magical, god-like.

As we go forward into the shifts in Socius through history, there are some basic elements that need to be laid out first. In the territorial socius, the primitive, we must re-evaluate some assumptions about pre-modern man.

So as psychoanalysts travel the globe, as ethnologists find tribes, indigenous locals, and somehow still reveal that Oedipus was there all along...why? Here we discuss how imperialization and colonization of cultures leads to oedipalization.

So as psychoanalysts travel the globe, as ethnologists find tribes, indigenous locals, and somehow still reveal that Oedipus was there all along...why? Here we discuss how imperialization and colonization of cultures leads to oedipalization.

So - that paralogism. The one with the three parts? Can we break it down so much it becomes more clear yet also more confusing and then clear again? Here we do this, as we get into how representation shifts and pushes desire down, blocking it up, misshaping it.

You know how they had said Incest is impossible? Well, here we dive into how, and the way that representational knowledge is passed, infects, and shifts us. Let's revisit some Paralogisms!

How is it that our social machines functioned prior to any semblance of a state or economy? How did we know what needed to be made? What organized our labor?

Now that we are moving outside of the self, the subject, and into the space of social machines - like the Socius - we start to learn about how desire itself gets coded, why the flows usually have to be coded,

We close out the psychoanalytic talk as we dive into the process overall, the question of what madness is, what normative means, and asking ourselves, what is it that we call madness, how do the psychotic or neurotic or perverse relate to Oedipus? Or could it be that they don't...and there is something else at the foundation?

The Afterward appears here finally, the final paralogism, and the question of what it is that truly drive desiring production and how it works. We also play another round of 'did Brooks change Mic's again only to return it after the recording made him pissed'. They answer is yes.

So, the question now moves into the space of how repression operates. Is it truly separable as social and psychic? Does repression exist only in one, are they united? With all we have discussed, how is Desire held back and why?

Now we dive back through and Oedipus comes front and center. We trace through the syntheses how desire moves, how Oedipus forces it to shift, and ultimately to the errors produced by such a misuse of the process. Myth, Law, Lack, Signifiers and more are taken to task.

Okay. Now we close and explain it all. And boy do we have a ton of new thoughts on everything.

It continues. And continues. I'd write something here but this is the middle. It's not final, it's not the start. It's just moving from Oedipus into the creation of representation and how it all gets fucked up.

Now we have gone through the first two and the creation of Oedipus and involved in the repression of the poor desiring machines. Buckle in. it's a long one.

Ever have a short section become so very very long? This is one of those. With the Three Syntheses behind us, it's time to bring them back in a new light, to talk through how they break, and to discuss where it all goes so very very wrong.

Now, let us discuss the first synthesis through the eyes of Oedipus, and allow the critique to begin.

This is not about anything critical theory. It's been a year since we started this whole thing, and we wanted to take a minute to talk about that journey and some good moments. It's been wild. Thank you all for helping us get here.

So. Freud. I know you're as excited as we were, which is fine because we dove deep into his texts, the meanings, and a lot more when it comes to the man who 'found' Oedipus. In this section D&G outline their reasons for involving psychoanalysis and the geneology of how they got here.

Why Oedipus? Why be Anti-Oedipus with all that is wrong with things? The authors dive right in to explaining how Oedipus itself is an imperialist and fascistic thing - that the very nature of representation as Oedipus exists to create itself.

Have you brushed up on your Proust? Here we dive into a good amount of it, as the authors start down the path of trying to describe how to move from the traditional 'many' versus 'one' and instead think of all things as both the whole, as well as its part.

Where does repression get created, how do we interact with it, and how does it change who we are?

What makes us unique is we don't go into these things having discussed before hand. Everyone ahs their take. You get to join us as we hash through thoughts and differences. This one starts rough. I'll admit. But we end so well.

In The Machines we break down the first level of what the machines are, and we disabouse anyone of the notion that they are virtual, an allegory, or a metaphor. This shit is real.

In Chapter 1.4, the critiques of those who came before is out in full force. First, they come out swinging at Freud (shocker I know) but then Klein takes a few hits and then Lacan. Et Tu, Guattari? The big points here? How repression takes hold and the actual palce that Neurosis, Psychosis and more actually come from. Hint - it's not from you.

Before we dive into Chapters 3 & 4, we wanted to cover anything left over. And there is a lot. This was basically run like a huge Ask-us-Anything, and we did our best to take on all the questions we got. No questions was stupid. It was wonderful.

Someday I'll get the audio right. This episode we dive into the creation of the subject - you! As we introduce the third synthesis, and the miraculating energy that makes you think that you want a thing or did a thing. Also, the egg makes it's first of many appearances.

I uploaded this without doing heavy editing. The three syntheses are a very difficult thing to discuss directly, and for the first 30 or 40 minutes we dance around terminology and have some talks. The last hour we dig into those terms and really get at the heart of how these three elements work, how they come together, and why it's so important to understand their processes.

Forgive the wonky audio. In this reading we move into the discussion of how anti-production comes into play, how the BwO not only utilizes but interacts with desiring machines and how the recording process itself works - and what it shaves off of desire along the way.

A new year a new reading! We begin at the start with a new crew, and our format we figured out towards the end of the last reading now takes on the book once again. The Desiring Machines, the summary of the entire story to come, is analyzed and discussed.

Our roundtable this week focuses on the 5 Paralogisms and how they work and interfere with the process of desiring production. Enjoy my saying Syllogism incorrectly a few hundred times.

One of the more frustrating concepts around the works of D&G is easily the Body without Organs. With our primary goal the demystification of these works, we couldn't let this sit out in that awkward place where the idea is only accessible to the extremely well read. We take a crack here at explaining it for the neophyte, for those without a doctorate. Maybe it will help you.