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Can I be a voice for the world?Can I be anything else?Are we not alla voice, really the voicefor the world?I begin writing today,after months of silence.After months even yearsof searching for othermeans of expressingwho I amand where I fit.But I don’t fit in . . .I don’t belong in any group:Catholic, Buddhist, Jewish, New Age, Integral . . .Not even Nomadic . . .So, I can only speak meand so

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AV - the MMU ERI Journal for Deleuzian Studies featuring papers by leading academics in the field of Deleuzian Studies and artwork inspired by Deleuze's writing -- Volume 2In this issue it features: a key note paper from the ‘Re–Mapping Deleuze' conference held at Cornerhouse, Manchester, in September 2005: “The Secret of Theory" by Professor Claire Colebrook (University of Edinburgh) and a

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"E as in 'Enfance' (Childhood)" Parnet says that it seems that, for Deleuze, his childhood really has little importance. Deleuze responds, yes, necessarily so. He considers the writing activity to have nothing to do with an individual affair, not something personal or a small private affair. Writing is becoming, he says, becoming-animal, becoming child, and one writes for life, to become

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"D as in Desire"Since Deleuze is considered to be, says Parnet, a philosopher of desire, so what is it?Deleuze starts by saying that "it's not what people thought it was, even then. It was a big ambiguity and a big misunderstanding, or rather a little one." . . . So as philosophers, Deleuze with Guattari saw their task as that of proposing a new concept of desire. And concepts, despite what some

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In a recent post on my other blog, Talmudic Questionings, I discussed the idea of "omnibenevolence" as a potential for each of us.I believe that if Deleuze understood this idea as coming from traditional religion, he would either be very suspicious or simply reject it. However, I wonder if "omnibenevolence" could be one of the possible "lines of flight," one of the experiments we are encouraged

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"C as in Culture"Parnet asks what it means for Deleuze to "être cultivé" (be cultivated, cultured). She reminds him that he has said that he is not "cultivé", that he usually reads, sees movies, observes things only as a function of a particular ongoing project.He says that he sees this as part of his investment in being "on the lookout" (être aux aguets; cf. "A comme Animal"). He adds that he

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Overall, I deeply and profoundly think we (meaning the whole planet) take ourselves TOO SERIOUSLY and that is why these lines about Deleuze's thought from John Rajchman's book The Deleuze Connections have struck me so strongly:"Our lives must be indefinite or vague enough to include such potential for other worlds of predications or individualizations, and so enter into complications with others

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"B as in _Boire/Boisson_ [Drink]" Parnet asks what it meant for Deleuze to drink when he used to drink. Deleuze muses that he used to drink a lot, but had to stop for health reasons. Drinking, he says, is a question of quantity.Drink and drugs are not required in order to work, but their only justification would be if they did help one to work, even at the risk of one's health. Deleuze refers to

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Check out this new journal for Deleuzian studies -- Actual Virtual -- January 2006Each issue will feature papers by leading academics in the field of Deleuzian Studies and artwork inspired by Deleuze's writing. The first issue features two papers from the recent conference ‘Re–Mapping Deleuze' held at Cornerhouse, Manchester, in September 2005: Entrancing Time by Dr Anna Powell (Manchester

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Available online is Gilles Deleuze's ABC Primer, with Claire Parnet -- for the next number of days I will be sharing excerpts with my highlighting from this site -- hoping to deepen my appreciation of this text."A as in Animal"In philosophy, he says, the invention of a barbaric word is sometimes necessary to take account of a new notion: so there would be no territorialization without a vector of

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Nomadics -- Negativeschaotic; leaderless; directionless; practiceless; concerned about newness for newness’ sake; destructive of tradition; rootless; lonely; pathless; easy to get lost (though can one get lost, when one is a nomad?)Nomadics -- Positivesfreshness; creativity; openness; movement; lively; evolutionary; encompassing; not rejecting of any moments; at home everywhere; representatives:

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focus on the creativethe newthe rhizome not the rootno set paththough all paths can be “raided” for necessities and treasuresconstant movementconstant correctionconstant rebirthconstantly making connectionsnew connections for new possibilitiesnew lifeno authoritiesno organizationlove of the newthe possible of all the connections that create the world new every momenthumility to the unknown and

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The opening to the poet Pierre Joris' Nomad Manifesto: The days of anything static - form, content, state - are over. The past century has shown that anything not involved in continuous transformation hardens and dies. All revolutions have done just that: those that tried to deal with the state as much as those that tried to deal with the state of poetry. A nomadic poetics is a war machine,

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Nomads are pilgrims whoare continually on a journeyof understanding and transformation.On this journey the nomadhonors and respectseach individualand the cultures and traditionsthat individual holds dear,while at the same time strivingthrough the sincerityof their journey and personal transformationto free and lighten anyconstricting holds these “systems”may have on those individuals. The nomad

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creature and creatorconventional and ultimatebeings and beingtrees and rhizomesloving surrender to infinite lovemystery, acceptance, Logos, Son of God,revelation, Trinitytranssubstantiationof matter,of us through“reverent, astonished wonderment” a simple, bowing of the head,bending of the kneetransforming our consciousnesscaught in the web ofobstructions:desire, hatred, ignorance,

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It seems everywhere one looks there are discussions about the "end times" and the "Rapture."Whether it is the Left Behind series, or the President of Iran or the Jewish organization Chabad, the discusion about and hope for this event seems quite real.What a TRAGEDY! Why focus on such a short term horizon? I guess the easy answer is that each group is hoping, of course, that they "win." While I

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What is a rhizome spirit? I hope over time, by sharing and writing within this blog, to begin to truly understand this spirit that I feel deeply and strongly within me.I would love to hear others thoughts as well, since the fundamental nature of the rhizome is as Deleuze and Guattari say, "and . . . and . . . and . . ." and not either/or.The word "rhizome" became a philosophic word, and I would

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