4.1 - Capitalism and the Outside

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to the fourth lecture on the work of the CCRU. In this lecture I will analyse the CCRU's work on capitalism and its relation to the concept of the outside which I've expanded on in previous lectures. Now that we have this relatively thorough system or structure in relation to Kant and Deleuze we can begin…

• 00:03:00

  The creation of distinctions, stabilities, clarities, stoppages. The body without organs of capitalism just cannot allow any form of over-coding and it repels the over-coding of the desiring machine, man, back into the socius as a modified version of itself. So that is to say any form of coherent stability…

• 00:06:53

  The process of production, and in turn the production of history, therefore comes before history as we synthesize it. In his text, Circkertrees, Nick Land writes, there is no dialectic between social and technical relations. But only a machinism that dissolves society into the machines whilst de-territorializing…

• 00:09:20

  From here we can see the socius as a full body. It is organised, striated, or as Deleuze and Guattari state it, it is the surface where all production is recorded, whereupon the entire process appears to emanate from this recording surface. So here we're getting into the point where the inside creates effects…

• 00:12:17

  So if we think about this again, you know, we're taking this, you know, we're taking this, you know, this body without organs, the general body without organs as the plane of consistency of intensities and fluxes, flows, pure emotions. Supposedly, these virtualities are then appropriated by the desiring machines…

• 00:14:59

  So when we remove this division between the alien power and man and actually subsume them together, so the alien power is actually within man and isn't this external thing and we push it towards this Deleuze-Guattari mode of production where everything is imminent and production as man, as desiring machine. Man…

• 00:20:22

  transcendental time transcendentally speaking states and events of time hold no privilege over one another the past the present and the future as per the first synthesis become mere empirical articulations from the desiring machine's point of view they are representations this linear mode of time a transcendental…

• 00:23:24

  It serves as the primary wellspring of creation. Which, when interlinked with a system such as capitalism, a transcendental system, which in its inherent fluidity avoids the repulsion of the body without organs, it becomes an auto-constructive system. The lines between the body without organs and the body without…