This podcast delves into Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche and the concept of nomad thought. They also discuss capitalism's influence on sports conferences, childhood fascination with apocalyptic themes, encoding madness in books, and the nomadic war machine. They explore the problem of establishing connections and disjunctions and the relationship between money, sports, and professional wrestling.
Marxism and psychoanalysis attempt to recode society, but ultimately lead to bureaucracy and the decoding of values.
Reading in a post-structuralist context should focus on intensity rather than representation or decoding.
Proper names in philosophy and science act as powerful signifiers, tapping into the transformative potential of language.
Deep dives
The Danger of Codes and Recoding
In the podcast, the speaker highlights the danger of encoding and recoding systems such as Marxism and psychoanalysis. He suggests that while these systems attempt to recode society to bring about positive change, they ultimately lead to bureaucracy and the decoding of values. In contrast, Nietzsche's philosophy poses a different danger by introducing a counterculture that goes beyond codes and refuses to be easily encoded. His focus is on introducing something new and inventing a new body that cannot be easily categorized or tamed.
Post-Structuralist Reading and Intensity
The podcast episode explores the idea of reading and interpretation in a post-structuralist context. It emphasizes the importance of intensity in reading, rather than focusing on representation or decoding. The speaker discusses how aphorisms, like those found in Nietzsche's writings, have an intensive relationship with the outside, allowing for a play of forces and the creation of new connections. This kind of reading transcends traditional interpretations and embraces the transformative power of language and thought.
The Power of Proper Names
The podcast touches on the significance of proper names, both in philosophy and science. Proper names are seen as powerful signifiers that have the ability to assign specific effects or phenomena. In science, proper names are used to create stable reference points, such as in the measurement of temperature with Kelvin. Proper names in philosophy, on the other hand, can serve as placeholders for intensity and the play of forces, going beyond traditional signification and tapping into the transformative potential of language.
Decoding and Delirium
Decoding and delirium are explored in the podcast episode as key concepts. The speaker highlights the dangers of over-reliance on codes and the need to go beyond coding systems. Delirium is presented as a mode of thought that embraces intensity and refuses to be easily represented or decoded. The relation to the outside, the power of aphorisms, and the dynamic interplay of forces are emphasized as important aspects of decoding and delirium.
The Logic of Relations and False Connections
Lawrence and Russell's critique of logical relations and false connections abstracting reflection from the physical world of flows, leading to the death of the world and the enclosure of the collective soul in an ego. Lawrence opposes false connections that mint subjects and objects, such as money turning into loose change. The challenge is to find or recover connections that embrace the physics of relations, escaping codification and political unity. Delving into Nietzsche's discourse, Deluze emphasizes a nomadic and war machine-like aspect in Nietzsche's work, announcing a new type of discourse as counter-philosophy.
The Wandering War Machine and the Unification of Localized Struggle
The discussion explores the intrinsic and extrinsic units of the nomadic war machine and the despotic administrative machine. These units oppose and confuse each other to the extent that they become one another. The challenge is to find a unity of localized struggle without reconstituting a state or internal despotic unity. Deluze argues for a form of thought as a nomadic power, a discourse that goes beyond rational administrative machines and philosophies tied to pure reason. Deluze highlights the importance of finding connections that escape codification and false coherence, rejecting the logic of cause and effect for a physics of relations.
This week Cooper and Taylor read two of Deleuze’s essays on Nietzsche, Nomad Thought and Nietzsche and St. Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos. We largely focused on nomad thought and spent time discussing decoded flows and more.
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