psychoceramics: How To Make Yourself A Plane Of Consistency

[romana @ fqa.com (Romana Machado)]

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   Mapping the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari onto the physics of
                           Prigogine & Stengers





       Intro Intermezzo (below)
       (1) A Deleuzian Paradigm: Towards a Re-Appraisal of Kant
       (2) Sigmund Freud: Repetition and Transcendental Method
       (3) Masochism and Sadism: Two Transcendental Short Circuits
       (4) THE LAW as Indeterminate; THE LAW as Constraint
       (5) Double Articulation in Plateau Formation: "Integrating Intelligence"
       & the "Order-Word"
       ---------- Part a
       ---------- Part b
       Unconclusion: Which Way Now?
       Bibliography


       By the end of World War Two, it had become clear that the
       classical scientific hope of reducing a complex world to a handful
       of relatively simple laws was insolubly problematic on nearly all
       fronts. Two examples will serve to demonstrate the kinds of
       difficulty at stake: Bruns and Poincar had already proved by the
       end of the nineteenth century that it was not possible to formulate
       the 3-body problem into an integrable system given the
       parameters of Newtonian physics;[1] and the development of
       quantum mechanics, with the discovery of Planck's constant and
       Heisenburg's uncertainty relations, had ended the classical
       assumption that coordinates and momenta of particles were
       independent variables and with it the classical hegemony of strict
       linear causality.[2] Norbert Weiner was amongst the first to
       exploit the practical and cultural impact of these ideas; his
       "Cybernetic theory" combined quantum notions of probability,
       ideas of information feedback in system control that the invention
       of the vaccuum tube had allowed to develop, and the Second Law
       of Thermodynamics. This led him to a vision of the cosmos as a
       slowly dissipating energy cloud pockmarked with patches of
       organised activity; the universe as a closed system winding down
       from order to disorder, with a few eddies in which the order of
       life can briefly gain sway against the trend towards heat-death.


       But today we seek to understand that this picture, exciting as it is,
       is in fact a misleading over-simplification. Its central problematic
       is that Wiener still assumes an almost Kantian point of view from
       which the notions of "order" and "disorder" can make
       unambiguous sense. By referring to two key texts, Order out of
       Chaos by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, and A Thousand
       Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we shall attempt to
       provide substance to the claim that the universe is not a closed
       system with order arising as an accidental by-product, but an open
       system with a spontaneous self-organising order at its very heart.
       Traditional Western assumptions regarding the fundamental
       nature of the cosmos - and consequently the very nature of
       thought and knowledge - must be radically altered. Boundaries are
       becoming fuzzy. The schema of this paper will be a map; its
       structure a fold. Get your scissors ready.

       The rhizome is altogether different, a map and not a tracing.
       Make a map, not a tracing.[3]


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