[D-G] cartes, maps of geopolitical communications

Mike Lansing badger2 at mail2world.com
Thu Feb 7 16:58:36 PST 2019


It's the theogonic-type of regimes de signes that is manipulating the
hostages, even if there is little or no religious discourse. Your idea
of a resilient (but also consistently stable) Putin-as-christ makes
sense as does the symbology for the xian soldier, Gantz: symbolic
father figure and christ-son. Gantz was friends with Masud who was
killed by some radicals from Molenbeek, a connection that will be kept
in mind. A shadow government, a self-perpetuating sign regime with
moral imperatives driving a sustained repression due to integrated
theogonic forces, as Putin has declared these forces necessary.

'By chipping away at the iconic function of christ, I hope to help
unveil the dynamics that lead people to desire their own (religious
[italics]) repression. This too will require creating new concepts and
making new connections. How does one go about the process of
construction? Deleuze recommends that one must begin within the social
formation in which one finds oneself.

"Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it
offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of
deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them,
produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of
intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all
times" (TP, 178). The social formation in which I find myself is
largely stratified by monotheistic religions, even -- or especially --
when the role of these coalitional forces is ignored or downplayed.
Increasingly one hears the voices of "new atheists" protesting against
this stratification. Why is it so easy for people to ignore these
protests? My strategy is to begin from the inside, so to speak, and to
work outward, testing Deleuze's suggestive hypothesis that Christianity
in particular has a special role to play in the secretion of atheism.
What potential movements of deterritorialization, what possible lines
of flight can we find already (within [it.]) christianity theology
itself? As atheists have learned over the centuries, however, poking at
problematic doctrinal reasoning or questionable moral practices in
religion has surprisingly little effect. If we really want to dissolve
the power of (religious [it.]) repression, we need more leverage; we
need to understand the mental and social mechanisms that
surreptitiously produce and automatically reproduce this phenomenon
across cultures. Here we are aided by discoveries within the
bio-cultural sciences of religion, which have exposed the evolved
cognitive and coalitional processes through which the gods (including
christ) are imaginatively born(e).'
(Shults, op cit, p. 9)

Putin's 'necessary' religion necessarily produces it automatons between
elections. And the machine works. Be sure of it.

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Johnatan Petterson [internet.petterson at gmail.com]
>Sent: 2/7/2019 5:18:29 PM
>To: deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org
>Subject: Re: [D-G] cartes, maps of geopolitical communications
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>If I follow you right, the hostage populations in Russia hold Putin to
>be the resilient Figure of Christ ??
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>How come Gantz & Lapid and Resilience Party be connected to that
theology?
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>Where does fit in the Shadow Government in Shultz quoted passage below?
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>JP wrote: It's instead the ingenuous use by Putin's more or less secret
>Council of the "regimes de signes" composed from early XX Century
>artistic Avant Guardes.'
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>Yes, Russian psyche is asiatic. One can understand why Putin has said
>that religion is "absolutely necessary." Gantz's Israeli Resilience
>Party was presupposed in Shults's passage, below. That passage links to
>Putin's Media Council writers manipulating the "regimes de signes" just
>when JP abandons (too soon) the "regimes de signes" trajectory for a
>more rigorous schizoanalysis. One can sense the theogonic phantom, the
>shadow-government:
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>'From the point of view of the biocultural sciences of religion, it is
>important to note that the (use [italics]) in what Deleuze calls
>"wisdom traditions" is normally wrapped up in shared imaginative
>engagement with supernatural agents, and so "religious" in the sense I
>use the term here. In this context, however, my main focus will
>continue to be on overturning "christ," a particularly resilient Figure
>who is interpreted within the sacerdotal trajectory of Christian
>theology as (the [italics]) image of God, in relation to which all
>human beings are evaluated.'
>(Shults, Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of
>Atheism, p. 56)
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>This theogonic imagery is deeply embedded on the hostage populations.
>It is a naturally addictive media drug.
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