Nicholas Blincoe - Making It With The Outside

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• 00:00:00

  The real energetic liberty which annihilates the priest's cage of human freedom is refused at the level of the political secondary process, during the precise period in which the economic primary process is slipping ever more deeply into its embrace. The deep secret of capital as process is in its incommensurability…

• 00:11:12

  Just before we came on, I looked at Nick Land's Wikipedia page. And it said that he came to work in 87. But I'm fairly sure that's wrong. I'm fairly sure it was after I'd finished my first degree. Okay. So it must have been like 89 or something. So as I finished, Nick Land came. And that's when they opened up a whole…

• 00:25:41

  But his only problem as a PhD supervisor was that he became an incredible stoner. So he really could be completely stoned. So yeah, huge dope smoker. So is that what he needs is maybe a little bit less of the methamphetamines, more of the marijuana? Is that particularly? I don't know. To what extent he did take…

• 00:34:56

  Yeah. And destruction and desire meant something to me immediately. But I'd not put it into a philosophical context. Yeah. And Economy of the Midnight did that. There's that phrase from The Doors, the little girls in the stands. And the Kramps reused it. And it's that idea that, you know, we're all men stroking…

• 00:44:11

  Sorry, Cooper. One thing that you mentioned, Nicholas, that I thought was kind of interesting and I think sort of applies to me is like, if I'm writing or if I'm making a film, I think what I'm really doing is trying to sneak the philosophy in the back. And I think if that's not done very deftly, then it can become…

• 00:59:11

  and then to just eject him immediately leaves room for never mentioning him again in the essay and to make all of a thousand plateaus and antiedipus the text of the book is a kind of that he cites from and these reflections on death that leaves any that kind of wipes your hands of saying well this is all de leuze…

• 01:15:21

  I don't know as much on Guattari's reflections on this, but on Deleuze's side. He talks about it. In the. Abbasidere with this very paying look where he's like, look, I, I hope I didn't sort of promote this type of dissolution. He's like, look, if old men go on their hedonic, their benders and end up at least they've…

• 01:24:03

  the ultimate form of security which is the control over the whole state of things in lieu of violence without the cause of the care for it This is the clinical violence of information It's violent because what happens there is a murder of the real, the vanishing point of reality Let's not have a misunderstanding here…