[D-G] Geopolitical Communications

[Mike Lansing]

We look forward to discourse from Nick Land or these other
communist/post-communist philosophers because of the deadly democratic
socialist thrust beginning to gather momentum inside the American
rhizome. If Hardt and Negri are correct in stating that the pivot of
socialism, the point at which it becomes impossible is necessary labor
vs. surplus labor, then we must tease out differences between UK,
France, Venezuela, U.S. from the confusion.

'On a January evening in 1934, approximately 6,000 Chicagoans gathered
in the city's large Coliseum Hall to celebrate and remember Lenin. It
was the kind of evening that brought out the complexities of Communism
in the city. "In behalf of the American Communist Party," the main
speaker declared, "I say that the one program which will bring unity to
the American people is the program of Lenin." ....In a sense, this
occasion honoring Lenin's memory had already begun the work of unifying
American people across the lines of age, sex, ethnicity, and
occupation. And yet Communists clearly had their work cut out for them.
American Federation of Labor leaders, the speaker warned the crowd,
equated Lenin's program with "a Russian program - not one for the
United States."
....
What did this diverse grouping of Chicagoans find relevant about Lenin
and the Communist party? How are students of American history supposed
to reconcile these two seemingly contradictory images: one of an
organization that celebrated Soviet leaders, co-opted Soviet symbols,
and embraced revolutionary Marxist-Leninist ideology, and on the other
a somewhat popular American social movement comprised of a wide array
of otherwise ordinary people?'
(Storch R, Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35)

-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Johnatan Petterson [internet.petterson at gmail.com]
>Sent: 2/19/2019 4:18:18 PM
>To: deleuze-guattari at lists.driftline.org
>Subject: Re: [D-G] Geopolitical Communications
>
>hi.
>I am not sure of the translation given by you below, at least today's
the
>first googled "what is a dispositif?" pdf seems more accurate an
English
>translation,
>even if reading Deleuze in original, according to this very recent
>experience, i must say naturally seems a must.
>
>Deleuze is an example of a creation of a New Religion.
>predicting or anticipating the new did not matter so much
>as creating subjectivity in the Reader by calling her attention to the
>idea that subjectivity must be produced, hence Guattari's interest in
>autopoesis in Varela.
>
>besides Deleuze destroyed many orders of ideas and constellation of
>opinions
>which could drag behind his Reader towards old marxist classic
positions of
>ideas.
>
>that was motivated by the idea of Federation which is developed as
early as
>in his thesis on Mathesis of Consciousness.
>
>the federation between the axioms or laws and the thinking Cosmopolitan
>machine
>
>how interesting to notice so few intellectuals strike out of the
"fond" now
>in France.
>
>many of the "new" i mean contemporaneous communist or post-communist
>philosophers like Mark Fisher, Nick Land, Andrew Culp
>
>are subjected to the Cosmopolitan machine. or rather subjected to this
>federal motive happening at the favour of Gilles Deleuze
>and Felix Guattari's very 68's inspiration toward a federation between
the
>Cosmopolitan thinking machine and the axiomatique of laws or rights of
the
>citizens.
>
>Nick Land and his bitcoin movement might mean a new strata favoured by
high
>technology and an addictive abuse of anonymous expression
>or lack of responsibility. i would venture to say that the future
right and
>the future left or rather multiplicities of partisanship might espouse
on
>one side
>this thinking of the high technology anonymous expression (we do not
know
>who is a bot? for instance) and a complexification
>of Responsibility in expression, the latter being only mainly
expressed so
>far up to this date (2019) thru Communication Standards of Expressions.
>
>in France i only think of Bruno Latour as being someone who has brought
>something new to the DG investigation. Stengers was a DG long time
follower,
>and changed her communication according to DG new lines of expressions
and
>"crisis" in communications. i don't know what she is being
>up to with Whitehead, the latter being a confused guy, not really a
cent as
>sharp as was Deleuze.
>
>we intellectuals on facebook mailing lists and such forums of
discussions
>and blogs, like nothing much as self-destructive opinions favored by
DG and
>Derrida. i am wondering
>of the role such intellectuals play on the planet, into Human Forms of
>Novelty?
>are they like the "peintre du dimanche" ? they come justified by DG
>valorisation of subjectivity as capable to recognize subjectivity as
such.
>
>alas it seems subjectivity as capacity for self singularisation, such
as
>Guattari wanted, which is really truly Religious,
>only exists within certain conditions, and the works offered by DG do
not
>seem to suffice (when they do not frankly frighten "creatives" in the
art
>schools,
>especially the teachers: they might loose their authority as teachers
over
>the students. so the students loosing the teachers reterritorialise
>on past or "book" Forms of subjectivations. a lack of tools of new
>singularisation, or re-singularisation is another aspect of today's,
>including among the best intellectuals like Andrew Culp and Nick Land.
>singularisation engages more than poetry or words.
>
>the federation compensates for the desert, the desires as well.
>
>please let's talk more about Brexit, just spent the week-end in London,
>the people seem so desparate in this city, its is really a crack in the
>British Empire does not it?
>it is more annoying than the recent rampages. for the subjectivities.
what
>is dragging the crowds and the elites UP
>apple google gmail? are we loving the new "period" emoji ? i was
struck why
>such a lack of riots in the streets.
>there was one during Cameron in 2006 i reckon. but why not a riot
because
>of Brexit? no. people are just desperate.
>riots in Bristol emulated the Trip-Hop movement, which was obviously
the
>last major British invention. abolished because
>of spotify and 9/11.
>
>some talk about the anti - anti - semitism manifestation in Paris
tonight
>please. thanks.
>
>John Petterson
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>Le mer. 13 févr. 2019 à 22:22, Mike Lansing <badger2 at mail2world.com> a
>écrit :
>
>> 'One should not believe, however, that the production of subjectivity
>> is left only to religion; anti-religious struggles are also creative,
>> just as the regimes of light, enunciation and domination move through
>> very diverse domains. Modern subjectivations resemble the Greek
>> subjectivations no more than the Christian ones; the same is true of
>> light utterances and power....What are madness, prison, sexuality
>> today? What new modes of subjectivation de we see appearing today
that
>> are certainly not Greek or Christian? This last question haunted
>> Foucault until the end (we who are no longer Greek, nor even
>> Christian).'
>> (Deleuze, What is a Dispositif?)
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