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Fetish-2

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:58:51 +0000

The two syntheses of production are subject to fetishistic manipulation: reversal in the case of connection, and exclusivity in the case of disjunction. The fetish is specific to a social delirium (an “I think”) of an apparent movement of, for instance, the body without organs as cause of all production (the logic of “without me …

Falling Back Onto

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:27:21 +0000

Before preceding any further, another note on the translation is in order. Most critical and most misleading in the English rendering is the translation of “se rabattre sur” as “to fall back onto.” The learned footnote on page 10 of the English text lists the various meanings of the verb “rabattre” and evokes, whether intentionally …

Fetish

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:36:14 +0000

It is in terms of this tension that Deleuze and Guattari will understand the fetish, not as an object, a commodity, or a body part; but as the movement, event, and relationship that reverse the connective synthesis and fix the machine as fatefully miraculated, as, in other words, owing its existence to some body without …

Repelling

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:57:01 +0000

“We shall not inquire how all this fits together so that the machine will run: the question itself is the result of a process of abstraction” (8). Again, and of the parallel between desiring production and social production: “we intend such a parallel to be merely phenomenological: we are drawing here no conclusion as to …

Relations

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:26:10 +0000

My incursion into this bit of intellectual and institutional history helps me situate Anti-Oedipus not only within the psychoanalytic context but also within that of one of the most pressing concerns that have marked the twentieth century. Deleuze and Guattari were by no means impermeable to the pressures and pleasures to take sides in the …

Of Applications – 2

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:19:21 +0000

I would like to return once again to the question of theory, its practices, its links and dislocations. What is the theory of the body without organs that is being proposed in the second section of Chapter One of Anti-Oedipus? What is its basis? Can one speak of it as having a basis at all? …

From One Imaginary to Another

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:56:31 +0000

At this point, I want to underscore the quality of a Lacanian imaginary in the reader’s relationship to the text, not as analyst but as object for an attempt at a so-called analytic reading. Indeed, and at one level at least, we have both a duplication and a reversal of the analytic process. One approaches …

Anti-

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:50:46 +0000

In this context, we witness near the closing of the chapter’s first section what might seem like a moment of dialectical abstraction: “desiring-machines make us an organism; but at the heart of this production, within the very production of this production, the body suffers from being organized in this way, from not having some other …