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Thou Shalt not Laugh

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:20:32 +0000

In his study of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt recounts one of those anecdotes that are “true and not true, everywhere and nowhere,” in other words, one of those anecdotes that are mythic in quality and function: The citizens of a certain town (Siena seems to be meant) had once an officer in their service …

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Fadi Abou-Rihan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:50 +0000

One of the most striking qualities of the Deleuze-Guattarian schema is its trinitarian structure: production, recording, and consumption; machine, body without organs, and subject; paranoid, miraculating, and celibate; connective, disjunctive, and conjunctive; and, finally, delirium, hallucination, and experience. The question that presents itself at this point is whether such a schema is but the latest …

Disjunction

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:26:44 +0000

In the face of this “without me, you are nothing” and instead of the all too familiar reversed and hence equally fetishistic and resentful response by the other, Deleuze and Guattari not only insist on the infinitely open quality of the binary series of machines that precludes the fixity of pedigree, they also complicate the …

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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 …