luka
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all opinions on political affaris are banalDeleuze, like all of them really, had pretty banal and uninformed opinions on the political issues of his day.
all opinions on political affaris are banalDeleuze, like all of them really, had pretty banal and uninformed opinions on the political issues of his day.
I can't imagine looking to them for facts and analysis. This stuff seems more like a toolkit than anything, like you could take what they're saying about flows and combine it with the actual facts of a situation from elsewhere and end up with some sort of model of how one thing led to another, what was driving it etc.Deleuze, like all of them really, had pretty banal and uninformed opinions on the political issues of his day.
Really? Were they that siloed in pure theory? I don't know what I was expecting really.Deleuze, like all of them really, had pretty banal and uninformed opinions on the political issues of his day.
what is kenners knot?Agreed. You want to see these "flows" in action! The rope that allows us to see Kenner's knot.
There's a chapter in The Pound Era where Kenner talks about a knot in a rope being a pattern of energy made visible by the rope. He says the same thing about water and the poetic image. It's the medium through which you see the shape of the energies.what is kenners knot?
If you wanted to actually know about the Gulf War, you wouldn't look to Baudrillard.
It isn't as complex an idea as the BwO or quite the same thing, but it's funny to read pages and pages of D&G describing something Kenner communicates in about one sentence.There's a chapter in The Pound Era where Kenner talks about a knot in a rope being a pattern of energy made visible by the rope. He says the same thing about water and the poetic image. It's the medium through which you see the shape of the energies.
Now Ezra Pound on the poetic image: "...a radiant node or cluster;...what i can, and must perforce, call a VORTEX, from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.what is kenners knot?
They're kind of asking for it if they agree to pen an op-ed though.i dont think philosophers should be judged by their opinions on current affairs any more than painters should though.
sounds good. the trees and the stones. and fountains. steel dust.Now Ezra Pound on the poetic image: "...a radiant node or cluster;...what i can, and must perforce, call a VORTEX, from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing.
A patterned integrity accessible to the mind; topologicallly stable; subject to variations in intensity; brought into the domain of the senses by a particular interaction of words."in decency one can only call it a vortex.....Nomina sunt consequentia rerum"
For the vortex is not the water but a patterned energy made visible by the water.
A patterned energy made visible by the water. Pound did not chance upon such a conception lightly. Patterns made visible has occupied him when he wrote in 1912 of "our kinship to the vital universe, to the tree and the living rock," having "about us the universe of fluid force, and below us the germinal universe of wood alive, of stone alive": man being "chemically speaking... a few buckets of water, tied up in a complicated sort of figleaf," but capable of having his thoughts in him "as the thought of the tree is in the seed." "energy creates pattern"
...Thirty years later, in Pisa he closed the 74th canto with a double image ofpatterned energy: the magnet's "rose in the steel dust" and the fountain's sculptured flow through which passes renewing water, tossing a bright ball. The same passage mentions the winds Zephyrus and Apeliota, moving energies so stable they have names, and cites Verlaine's comparison of the soul's life to the fountain's....
Get that Kenner book. It's absolutely brilliant. That 'Knot And Vortex' chapter alone makes it worthwhile.sounds good. the trees and the stones. and fountains. steel dust.
that grapejuice interview i read this morning has made me think about reading pound but i've not heard of kenner.