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groupuscule — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:21:32 +0000

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)

burroughs body coding

groupuscule — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:12:31 +0000

The 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

groupuscule — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:03:20 +0000

a 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

groupuscule — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:57:12 +0000

The man who is making a speech is not really there. (12)

more from the Repetition Project

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:48:26 +0000

It 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

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:45:19 +0000

Now 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

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:43:37 +0000

Freud 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).

[cf. Deleuze on Freudian repetition] Dan suggests that D&R is largely a response to this interpretation of Freud/repetition. This quote may already be the kernel of the idea, though: ‘variation’ and ‘modulation’ opposed to ‘radical diversity.’

Deleuze hates on psychoanalysis

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:42:57 +0000

The traditional theory of the compulsion to repeat in psychoanalysis remains essentially realist, materialist and subjective or individualist (104)

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis?

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:35:57 +0000

The 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…

groupuscule — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:32:51 +0000

represents 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.”

Protest too much?