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| Schizo's Web |
SCHIZOANALYSIS: to EkBufalo Reading Alan Taylor on the Internet
first and foremost a reactive, vital, non-structural approach to which Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari resort in order to better evaluate the "post-modern" subject (who, consequently, is "schizophrenized"; that is, liberated from the artificial "encoding" structures of psychoanalysis). As Deleuze and Guattari point out, schizoanalysis has one "negative" task and two "positive" ones. The former consists of "deconstructing psychoanalysis" by means of revealing (first positive task) the "desiring machines oppressed by the forces of Oedipus and society" (coding exerted by Law Enforcement and the institutionalizing of madness). Schizoanalysis "second positive task" is to free desiring production in all directions. The subject must follow his "natural" course toward "disintegration." Disintegration meaning the internal disconnection in relation to pyramidal "stratification." The subject's movement must be a horizontal one, toward the creation and exploitation of new potentialities. How does he/we do that? Through haecceity, the acknowledgement "that everything is in constant flux." Therefore the subject loses his "subjectivity" (or his is-ness). He is no longer a subject, at least not as a "stasis-noun." By inserting his self in the flux which is "his (repressed) essentiality," he becomes mask, the moving, becoming existence to which no permanent code can be assigned . That is to say, the subject becomes the "body-without-organs"—Michael Jackson or Acephalous. The fixed subject loses his head (psychoanalysis favorite dungeon for torture) and becomes "rhizome." The social pyramid is substituted by the labyrinth at the same time that the individual's "tree" is replaced by "grass." As Deleuze and Guattari put it, flux is the essential is-ness of the universe. And it has remained so despite its being oppressed by the "stratum" whose function is territorialization: to give form and to control, "imprisoning intensities, locking singularities into systems." The subject beyond Oedipus, the non-Oedipal subject, the resisting subject, fluent and undefinable is schizophrenic by nature, schizophrenic being a static-noun imposed by psychoanalysis to all of those who resist "coding" by its "totalizing theory." A "totalizing theory," as defined by Alan Taylor in his "Wanderings and Reflections on Deleuze and Guattari," is an all-powerful, fascist-like construction of the world to which we must adapt (by allowing our own territorialization via its enforced codes) and sheepishly believe. Architecturally speaking, such construction is pyramidal. A progressive building of cities, laws and cathedrals (or skyscrapers) which are the representational, Platonic double of the vertical evolutionary-genealogical chain . A "schizophrenized" subject, a subject beyond representation, must seek to pour through the "lines of flight," or breaks, or fractures, in the "strata." He must perform the complete erasure of the boundaries clearly marked by Aristotelian tradition and challenge the old, conservative Being upon which these limits are rooted: the Phallus must fall and genders bent in order to dissolve and disperse the "identity" of the subject construed by, and in obedience to, authority—the authority of Being! Such is the task necessary to carry out the rupture of the "safe" evolutionary chain of domineering Being—as seen in the film Jurassic Park. Life finds the way to break free. The objective of schizoanalysis is to provoke the discovery of these lines of flight by means of haecceity and to pursue them falling into the flux leaving behind Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin and all of the monumental, institutional structures of power: evolution, history and archetypes (upon which the whole "Oedipal edifice" is built) are only the dead, artificial codes of an oppressive, repressive logic to whom life (real life) escapes; a logic to which we have too easily grown accustomed to, frightened as we are to live, safe inside ourselves, dragging the crutches of a fragmented identity imposed from, and by, the outside so to pull our maimed humanity out of bed each morning into a world where nothing is at stake, where we gamble nothing. Schizoanalysis should aim at the creation of new potentialities where everyone survives by assembling new desiring machines within the eternal renovation of the universe. Survival should not be the exclusive privilege of the fittest, but should also include those whose cunning and fleetingness have enable them to defeat their former master, the fittest, and consequently the grammar to which the very notions of fitness, strenght, and domination are indebted; those who insert themselves into the flux, discover they are desiring machines and transform through metamorphosis and mutation into mask. Michael Jackson equals capitalism because he himself became "desiring production"—hence the need for the emergence of psychoanalysis' coding to construct—shape—him as a pervert, child molester, or whatever. Desiring production is nothing more than the universe's resort (which inhabits all of us—insofar as we are body-without- organs) to restore uniqueness and novelty at every moment.
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