[D-G] University program on Brexit and Yellow Jacket (about << multiplicities in rhetoric>>)

Mike Lansing badger2 at mail2world.com
Mon Dec 10 14:46:06 PST 2018


We are interested in D&G concepts if this list is still active. UK's
desired sovereignty is problematic and might be viewed through a
Derridean lens. The narcissicists of petroleum addiction seem to always
outnumber Zola's train riders.

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Johnatan Petterson [internet.petterson at gmail.com]
>Sent: 12/9/2018 5:39:12 AM
>To: deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org
>Subject: Re: [D-G] University program on Brexit and Yellow Jacket
(about 
><< multiplicities in rhetoric>>)
>
>Dear Deleuzo-Guattary attendants,
>
>I thought to forward this from a friend on nettime mailing-list
>
>Marine, She is the daughter of a famous Pirate (Capitaine Crochet is
his
>public name)
>
> I send it to you because it's part of an University inter-university
>program
>where application of the Deleuze & Guattari concepts are executed in
>Politcal rhetoric:
>part of an Inactual Intervention on the topic of Brexit, Western
Politics,
>and Yellow Jackets,
>
>here the key concepts (imposed subject) were:
>
><<disjunctive synthesis<<, <<opinion as solid<<, 
><<Cartesian doubt
>method<<, <<multiplicity versus ONE<<, and 
><<incarnation of ONE<<
>
>I hope Marine Crochet sturdy ideas, to stir pronto some more debate on
your
>DG list...
>
>Multi-Bacci a tutti !!
>
>Johnny Pett
>
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>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> I am living in a French environment, even though not in France.
>>>
>>> that's the historic of my opinions:
>>>
>>> 1) first I thought it was the wrong idea to go on strike against
the 
>oil
>>> taxes when the "Bonnets Rouges" also
>>> stroke against a similar eco friendly tax on traffic, back in the
>>> Segolene Royal Hollande years.
>>>
>>> 2) but then, i got to see the Tikkun Bloom related Lundi Matin
hebdo, 
>who
>>> was trying to demonstrate how Yellow Jackets
>>> make dysfunction the "dysfunctions" (ie the States Apparatus one)
and
>>> explaining how important it was to change your habits
>>> according to "Yellow Jackets" way of demonstrations.
>>>
>>> 3) now i think Macron will listen, and his Government shall listen
to 
>the
>>> constrains on the infrastructure change Yellow Jackets
>>> demand, like the one on re-nationalization of La Poste and SNCF 
>(Trains).
>>> It is totally compatible to his ideas on giving Fibre Optique (ADSL)
>>> to every one in France, however remote you are from big towns.
Yellow
>>> Jackets indeed agree to the eco friendliness, and opt for more
train 
>lines
>>> being
>>> constructed.
>>>
>>> Besides I believe the French Government is stuck, because Macron 
>wants
>>> more of an European semi International or say "Democrats" (in the us
>>> politics use of the word)
>>> plastic "globalism", which he understands to go alongside his way to
>>> decipher what "French Universalism" stands for (cfr previous UN 
>assembly
>>> discourse by Macron, where he
>>> paused as a Trump critic.)
>>>
>>> And perhaps its a chance for him to show how versatile can be his
>>> spirits. And adopt a deeper way of changing France infrastructure. 
>Deeper,
>>> of course, in this sense
>>> that it is democratic, egalitarian, and that people's desire are 
>taken
>>> into account in the more extended way as possible, even so more 
>assuredly
>>> when they themselves
>>> try to show responsibility and show restrain towards the violence 
>this
>>> last Saturday, a bit like Toni Negri & Hardt, in the end of 
>Multitudes.
>>>
>>> Now, I think Britain needs to have someone who in charge of
Politics, 
>can
>>> combine in her or his reasoning the different factors of the 
>questions of a
>>> very fractured opinions on the issue of Brexit.
>>> I think mostly this shall encompass keeping the argument of working 
>"in
>>> the nations interest".
>>> So that the interest of the "nation of Britain", is that some 
>agreement
>>> between the Leave feeling and the Remain feeling gets rightly 
>assorted, so
>>> that Britain can effectively
>>> answer to the majority of the first referendum call, and at the same
>>> moment become able to allow "Britain" as a Sovereign Person, to be 
>able to
>>> talk about Herself or Himself as
>>> someone not Fractured. That is accepting the disjunctive synthesis
of
>>> Being Fractured (as it is shown above to be between various desires 
>and
>>> opinions), and being ONE.
>>>
>>> May be for you who pay attention to the Marxist discourse cases of 
>entry
>>> in the logs of discourse, such a disjunctive synthesis may sound 
>uncanny.
>>>
>>> Yet, I believe Politics is too much looked at from the angle of the 
>non
>>> practical in this nettime group. Too often have I been led astray 
>reading
>>> drifting theoretical quasi rhetorical discussions
>>> which will never help any whatsoever change in the world affairs. 
>Not, I
>>> guess, even weigh in on the most advanced avant-garde leftist 
>political
>>> force there is, if not
>>> just to add a little on the resentment which is only part of the
>>> theoretical neurons in your many brains.
>>>
>>> Britain must be understood by someone, in the elected crowd of 
>people,
>>> (is by the way this Theresa May still part of the elected body?) i 
>mean
>>> Britain must be understood
>>> and explained to the whole nation, by the same single one individual
>>> elected human character, in one single intellectual & political 
>movement,
>>> it must be understood, and explained.
>>>
>>> If there is not such a person currently in Britain, then, we will 
>have
>>> trouble.
>>>
>>> This might certainly sound like a call to reflexion, on the notion 
>of
>>> "multiplicity" and it is not a call to strong leadership (of
course) 
>it is
>>> a call to
>>> letting something sensible, go transparent, through the situation, 
>which
>>> is too complex to be understood at this moment, for
>>> lack of conceptual quality in the reflexion groups and "think
tanks" 
>such
>>> as nettime or elsewhere.
>>>
>>> People on the net instead of discussing their opinions, should try
to
>>> change the tools with which they understand the current and recent 
>becoming
>>> of this world.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, the scientific community, the one who obeys the doctrine of
>>> "doubt" (and NOT opinions which are too solid) is perhaps more 
>naturally
>>> elected to see through this situation,
>>> than the opinion class which is ruling over the debates and over the
>>> Governments of UE or US since a few twenty or so years.
>>> This, i get a feeling that Donald Trump had understood, yet,
>>> unfortunately for everybody his actual somewhat sick limited 
>behavior, do
>>> not stand as the leader, for the solving the problems of his time.
>>>
>>> So maybe we hope Macron will understand how to reconsider his own 
>very
>>> Philosophy and its very Foundations.
>>> And listen to the change(s) asked by the multiplicity of his 
>electorates.
>>> And propose a set of public discussion in a way which
>>> would not necessarily destroy everything in France in UE or on
Earth. 
>He
>>> can invent, he's got a lot of tools with the digital.
>>> Maybe perhaps as well listen to the nettime opinion and create new
>>> alternative (to Twitter and Facebook etc) for just the sake of this 
>public
>>> discussion to be set straight, about and on topic the exact right 
>decisions
>>> to accomplish, which will be passed by him Macron, or the next 
>successor
>>> in Government(s).
>>>
>>> Best in heart,
>>> Marine, daughter of a pirate.
>>>
>>>
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