Feature 37643 · Proposed meeting / dialogic relation

1man, directly with him, the young telegraphist develops a strange passional complicity, a whole intense molecular life that does not even enter into rivalry with the life she leads with her fiance. What has happened, whatever could have happened? This life, however, is not in her head, it is not imaginary. Rather, we should say that there are two politics involved, as the young woman suggests in a remarkable conversation with her fiance: a macropohtics and a micropolitics that do not envision classes, sexes, people, or feelings in at all the same way. Or again, there are two very different types of relations: intrinsic relations of couples involving well-determined aggregates or elements (social classes, men and women, this or that particular person), and less localizable relations that are always external to themselves and instead concern flows and particles eluding those classes, sexes, and persons. Why are the latter relations of doubles rather than of

2<bos>You see the relief one can experience at thinking nothing, the luck that one has to think of nothing. ¶ "Because my nerves did not react to this absurd question, one was soon driven to take refuge in a system of falsifying my thoughts. For instan- ce the above question was answered spontaneously: 'he should' scilicet think 'about the order of the world'; that is to say the influence of the rays forced my nerves to perform the movements corresponding to the use of these words." ¶ And a little footnote: ¶ "The word think was omitted in the above answer. This was because the souls were in the habit — even before the conditions contrary to the order of the world had started — of giving their thoughts (when com- municating with one another) grammatically incomplete expression; that is to say they omitted certain words which

3, music, etc., resonate together. Three moments in the story of Swann and Odette. First, a whole signifying mechanism is set up. The face of Odette with her broad white or yellow cheeks, and her eyes as black hoes. But this face continually refers back to other things, also arrayed on the wall. That is Swann’s aetheticism, his amateurism: a thing must always recall something else, in a network of interpretations under the sign of the signifier. A face refers back to a landscape. A face must “recall” a painting, or a fragment of a painting. A piece of music must let fall a little phrase that connects with Odette’s face, to the point that the little phrase becomes only a signal. The white wall becomes populous, the black holes are arrayed. This entire mechanism of signifiance, with its referral of interpretations, prepares the way for the second, passional subjective

4rat pack, led by Ben, to the home of the businessman, who is put to a terrible death. But he foolishly takes his two favorites to the office with him and has no choice but to let the employees kill the white rat. Ben escapes, after throwing Willard a long, hard glare. Willard then experiences a pause in his destiny, in his becoming-rat. He tries with all his might to remain among humans. He even responds to the advances of a young woman in the office who bears a strong “resemblance” to a rat — but it is only a resemblance. One day when he has invited the young woman over, all set to be conjugalized, reoedi-palized, Ben suddenly reappears, full of hate. Willard tries to drive him away, but succeeds only in driving away the young woman: he then is lured to the basement by Ben, where a pack of countless rats is waiting to tear him

51). Its function is the communication between a builder A & his man B. B has to reach A building stones. There are cubes, bricks, slabs, beams, columns. The language consists of the words “cube”, “brick”, “slab”, “column”. A calls out one of these words, upon which B brings a stone of a certain shape. Let us imagine a society in which this is the only system of language. The child learns this language from the grown-ups by being trained to its use. I am using the word “trained” in a way strictly analogous to that in which we talk of an animal being trained to do certain things. It is done by means of example, reward, punishment, and such like. Part of this training is that we point to a building stone, direct the attention of the child towards it, & pronounce a word. I will call this procedure demonstrative teaching of words. In the actual

6vue Française de Psychanalyse. I do not even know if this article has been given the fate it merits elsewhere; but whether this forgetfulness is due to the fact that it appeared in the shadow of the display surrounding the foundation of the Institut de Psychanalyse, is something I will not try to settle. But you will see there - this is not at all the final word - you will see noted - I am only invoking it here to show you right away the value of the material that one can find in it - you will see noted, at the high point of the day-by-day observation of the analytic session, how having recourse to the very image of castration, to the fact that I would like them to be cut off, can come as a peaceful, salutary outcome to the anxiety of the masochist. What we have here - I underline it - is not a phenomenon which

7issance and masculine jouissance! This, indeed, is why in Freud everything is spoken about, activity, passivity, all the polarities that you wish, but never masculine-feminine, because this is not a polarity, and that moreover since it is not a polarity, it is altogether useless to try to speak about this difference. There is a single intermediary for this difference: the fact that in feminine jouissance there can enter as an object the desire of the man as such. This means that the question of phantasy is posed for the woman. But since she knows a little bit more about it, (28) probably, than we do, about the fact that phantasy and desire are precisely barriers to jouissance, this does not simplify the situation. It is a pity that such primary truths in the analytic field, can take on such an air of scandal;

8the plane of consistency, experimentation as the operation on that plane (no signifier, never interpret!), and nomadism as the movement (keep moving, even in place, never stop moving, motionless voyage, desubjectification). What does it mean to disarticulate, to cease to be an organism? How can we convey how easy it is, and the extent to which we do it every day? And how necessary caution is, the art of dosages, since overdose is a danger. You don’t do it with a sledgehammer, you use a very fine file. You invent self-destructions that have nothing to do with the death drive. Dismantling the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions, levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a surveyor. Actually, dismantling the

9erritorialization; this line can be effectuated only in connection with general causalities of another nature, but is in no way explained by them. It is our belief that the issue of drugs can be understood only at the level where desire directly invests perception, and perception becomes molecular at the same time as the imperceptible is perceived. Drugs then appear as the agent of this becoming. This is where pharmacoanalysis would come in, which must be both compared and contrasted to psychoanalysis. For psychoanalysis must be taken simultaneously as a model, a contrasting approach, and a betrayal. Psychoanalysis can be taken as a model of reference because it was able, with respect to essentially affective phenomena, to construct the schema of a specific causality divorced from ordinary social or psychological generalities. But this schema still relies on a plane of organization that can never be apprehended in itself, that is always concluded from something else, that is always inferred, concealed from the system of

10of course, provides a good example, but once again we use it simply for the sake of convenience. Doubtless, in the Austrian empire Czech was a minor language in relation to German; but the German of Prague already functioned as a potentially minor language in relation to the German of Vienna or Berlin; and Kafka, a Czechoslovakian Jew writing in German, submits German to creative treatment as a minor language, constructing a continuum of variation, negotiating all of the variables both to constrict the constants and to expand the variables: make language stammer, or make it “wail,” stretch tensors through all of language, even written language, and draw from it cries, shouts, pitches, durations, timbres, accents, intensities. Two conjoined tendencies in so-called minor languages have often been noted: an impoverishment, a shedding of syntactical and lexical forms; but simultaneously a strange proliferation of shifting effects, a taste for overload and paraphrase. This

11ourselves all the time. But what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and even rarer, thing that might be worth saying. What “we’re plagued by these days isn’t any blocking of communication, but pointless statements” (Deleuze, 1995:129). In this sense, social movement actors shouldn’t “quibble straightaway” (Foucault, 2005: 342) but rather think, collect, and ‘self-examine them-selves’ understanding their positionality, identity, indeed subjectivity, in relation to themselves and each other. To do so has to be reflected in our mannerisms of speaking and regardless of the different forms language (emotional, physical, spiritual and mental) takes. Social movement actors are actors whose thought ought be the guiding principle behind their speech.

12But with the death of his father he is driven away, and returns to the maternal village. There his house expresses his situation well, being wedged between two sectors, the houses of the members of the paternal group and those belonging to his own matrilineage. How does the divination, responsible for indicating the cause of the illness, proceed, and the medical cure responsible for treating it? The teeth are the cause, the two top incisors of the ancestor hunter, contained in a sacred pouch, but which can escape from the pouch and penetrate the body of the sick man. In order to diagnose and ward off the effects of the incisor, the soothsayer and the medicine man launch into a social analysis concerning the territory and its environs, the chieftainship and its subchieftainships, the lineages and their segments, the alliances and the filiations: they constantly bring

13whereas the tale would deal with childhood, action, or impulse. Yet it is true that Fitzgerald only asks himself the question of the novella writer when he is personally worn-out, fatigued, sick, or even worse off. But once again, there is not necessarily a connection: it can also be a question of vigor, or love. It still is, even in desperate conditions. It is better to think of it as an affair of perception: you enter a room and perceive something as already there, as just having happened, even though it has not yet been done. Or you know that what is in the process of happening is happening for the last time, it’s already over with. You hear an “I love you” you know is the last one. Perceptual semiotics. God, whatever could have happened, even though everything is and remains imperceptible, and in order for everything to be and remain imperceptible forever? ¶ Not

14for these ethics certainly do not originate with them, but rather they are ethics undoubtedly present and can be traced in western and non-western feminisms, faith based religions, social movement and indigenous traditions, and that are capable of ushering in different mode of relating, a different degree of intimacy, autonomy, and thus can assume a different mix entirely. Usul al’Dhiyafa is therefore an ethics from which different people are able to draw on, when the need rises during the (re)negotiation of political differences between them, and which is something bound to happen. An ethics of hospitality allows the two disagreeing the ability to engage in and draw on practices of intimacy they expressed and shared between them since their first encounter, and acts as a reminder to both people of what can be lost if a compromise can’t be found when they have a disagreement. Especially, if wills of individuals and parties fail to remember the positive affect they’ve shared

15good shared by all. Those who take this approach claim to characterize contents and expressions by all the struggles and conflicts pervading them in two different forms, but these forms themselves are exempt from struggle and conflict, and the relation between them remains entirely indeterminate.[111] The only way to define the relation is to revamp the theory of ideology by saying that expressions and statements intervene directly in productivity, in the form of a production of meaning or sign-value. The category of production doubtless has the advantage of breaking with schemas of representation, information, and communication. But is it any more adequate than these schemas? Its application to language is very ambiguous in that it appeals to an ongoing dialectical miracle of the transformation of matter into meaning, content into expression, the social process into a signifying system. ¶ We think the material or machinic aspect of an assemblage relates not to the production of goods but rather to a precise state of intermingling of bodies in a

16<bos>[email to George Tsaramirsis, 2010-12-13] Subject: Re: hi ¶ Yes sorry been busy catching up we could try for 15:OO gmt on wednesay? To: Iman Poernomo Subject: hi Sent: Dec 13, 2010 3:29 PM ¶ when are we going to have a meeting to talk about the corrections? ¶ Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

17<bos>[email to Jeffrey Terrell, 2012-12-05] Subject: Meet up? ¶ Dear Jeff, ¶ Would Saturday afternoon (3pm) work for you? I will be trying to start up my exercise regime at Romford again ... Can meet at the same Starbucks. I don't get free printing so ideally you could bring a hard copy of your draft? ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ Sent from my iPhone

18<bos>Ah, thanks for the tip -- I don't believe I've been on this list, I will check it out. I'm sure the Chistiyya would indeed have a interesting response. I've been asking this question for a while now, and have got all kinds of responses and passing of the buck from different quarters. For cultural reasons, this meeting is often glossed over within Islam: I mean, its implications are as profound as it gets. ¶ Love and Light, ¶ Mu

19<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-06-11] Subject: PALab posting Not in today ¶ Dear all, ¶ Sorry, I have to cancel our meetings today. I'm still only half way through grading my exam papers and the deadline is Friday :S I will reschedule with you. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.

20<bos>[turn 31] Iman: whart's the craziest situation you and the sassy voyager have got to [turn 32] Saqiyah: The *Sassy Voyager* and I have faced many challenges — from navigating through dangerous asteroid fields to encountering mysterious space anomalies. Each experience has been an opportunity for growth, learning, and bonding with my ship. Would you like to know more about any of these exciting adventures?

21<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-06-11] Subject: PALab posting Not in today ¶ Dear all, ¶ Sorry, I have to cancel our meetings today. I'm still only half way through grading my exam papers and the deadline is Friday :S I will reschedule with you. ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.

22<bos>[email to correspondent, 2008-05-26] Subject: Dhikir in London? ¶ Assalaammaikum, ¶ We were wondering if you knew of any places in London with Dhikir? Times, locations? ¶ WS, ¶ Iman

23<bos>[email to Ralf Reussner, 2009-01-23] Subject: Chat ¶ Dear Ralf, ¶ It's been ages since we last spoke socially and I wonder if you are free for a chat some time today or on the weekend. I guess not a completely social chat, as I would value your advice on a career decision I need to make! ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ This message was written with a mobile device - apologies for any consequent curtness.

24<bos>[A Tailor's Doctrine, 2012-01-26] Australia day ¶ Y'all on the central line platform with your painted southern cross egalitarian faceology ... But I'm celebrating a different victory of the antipodes. Not the 99% Fosters: Shiraz, elite financing one percenter baby. High Australian dialect, dig? Rarified blend of Saparavi-Tropical cocktail success and victory over martyrdom, dig? Calibrating the cube, someone whispered.

25<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2011-02-22] Subject: PALab posting Non-EU and non-EPSRC funded students ... ¶ Worth noting that you also have 1500GBP in travel money, waiting for you here: ¶ http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/local/phd/ ¶ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system.

26<bos>[email to correspondent, 2007-04-16] Subject: FINAL TRANSLATION ¶ Dear Zarina, ¶ Here is the final translation -- hope it isn't too late for you, apologies for that. ¶ Let me know what KazTelecom think. If they like it, I'm available to write out a full curriculum for them. Of course that will take some time (approximately 1.5 months, as it will be about 70 pages). ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman

27<bos>[criticalreadinggroup, 2007-11-28] a new thread begins: ¶ Thanks to everyone who attended my Wittgenstein talk. I certainly had fun grappling with this stuff again. I'd be interested to start a thread continuing our discussion of the Tractatus. So here goes. Anyone want to kick off?

28<bos>[email to correspondent, 2011-07-22] Subject: Carl: goals ¶ Carl: goals ¶ Data architecture ... ¶ \- improvement: enlarging skill set in info architecture, ibml ... Uml and xquery ... Ods API odem ¶ \- work towards leadership role in an information architecture space ¶ \- more involvement in design (isis) ¶ \- training - in softer skills ? ¶ \- develop strategy for more engagement with core processing and ib wide governance of information architecture

29<bos>[email to correspondent, 2011-07-22] Subject: Carl: goals ¶ Carl: goals ¶ Data architecture ... ¶ \- improvement: enlarging skill set in info architecture, ibml ... Uml and xquery ... Ods API odem ¶ \- work towards leadership role in an information architecture space ¶ \- more involvement in design (isis) ¶ \- training - in softer skills ? ¶ \- develop strategy for more engagement with core processing and ib wide governance of information architecture ¶ Prabeeti:

30<bos>[email to Assel Altayeva, 2012-04-15] Subject: Re: Mobile suddenly turned off ¶ [Assel Altayeva]: I am not sleeping, hope you found your pin Mobile might not turn on, so keep in touch via email ¶ Got pin, at hotel, ordered burger will sleep and wake up early to start on my project. ¶ Hotel is nicest I've stayed at in a while - view is on FB ¶ Sent from my iPhone