No, “They” are not God or super technicians from outer space. Just technicians operating with well-known equipment and using techniques that can be duplicated by anyone else who can buy and operate this equipment. (17)
Them
May 28, 2008burroughs body coding
May 28, 2008The original purpose of scrambling devices was to make the message unintelligible without scrambling the code. Another use for speech scramblers could be to impose thought control on a mass scale. consider the Human body and nervous system as unscrambling devices. A common virus like the cold sore could sensitize the subject to unscramble messages. Drugs like LSD and Dim-N could also act as unscrambling devices. Moreover, the mass media could sensitize millions of people to receive scrambled versions of the same set of data. Remember that when the human nervous system unscrambles a scrambled message this will seem to the subject like his very own ideas which just occurred to him, which indeed it did. (16)
cut/up
May 28, 2008a cutup.
AS A LONG RANGE WEAPON TO SCRAMBLE AND NULLIFY ASSOCIATIONAL
LINES PUT DOWN BY MASS MEDIA
The control of the mass media depends on laying down lines of association.
When the lines are cut the associational connections are broken. (13)
crowd
May 28, 2008The man who is making a speech is not really there. (12)
more from the Repetition Project
May 27, 2008It is repetition itself whose face [Freud], as much as Kierkegaard, renews for us in the division of the subject, the fate of scientific man. Let another confusion be dispelled; it bears no relation to Nietzsche’s ‘eternal return’ (307).
Deleuzian Transference
May 27, 2008Now transference is still repetition: above all it is repetition.…In transference, however, repetition does not so much serve to identity events, persons and passions as to authenticate the roles and select the masks (19)
Lacanian Repetition
May 27, 2008Freud is not dealing with any repetition residing in the natural, no return of need…Repetition demands the new. It is turned towards the ludic, which finds its dimension in this new…Whatever, in repetition, is varied, modulated, is merely alienation of its meaning. The adult, and even the more advanced child, demands something new in his activities, in his games. But this ‘sliding away’ (glissement) conceals that what is the true secret of the ludic, namely, the most radical diversity constituted by repetition itself (61).
Deleuze hates on psychoanalysis
May 27, 2008The traditional theory of the compulsion to repeat in psychoanalysis remains essentially realist, materialist and subjective or individualist (104)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis?
May 27, 2008The moral experience involved in psychoanalysis is the one that is summed up in the original imperative proposed in what might be called the Freudian ascetic experience, namely, that Woe es war, soll Ich Werden. (7)
The limit of death…
May 27, 2008represents the past in its real form; it is not the physical past whose existence is abolished, nor the epic past as it has become perfected in the work of memory, nor the historical past in which man finds the guarantor of his future, but rather the past which manifests itself in an inverted form of repetition.47 (262)
Footnote 47, (268): “(Added in 1966:) These four words [renversé dans la repetition] in which my latest formulation of repetition is found (1966), have been submitted for an improper recourse to the ‘eternal return’ [toujours present dans l’éternel retour], which was all that I could get across at that time.”