Nick Land Explains Deleuze & Guattari's Body Without Organs (Well, Sort Of)

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• 00:00:00

  The theory has to have a priority. Capitalism and Austrian intelligence are the same thing. The dimension of the future has disappeared. There is absolutely no representation anymore. There is no final resolution to contradiction. Militant predatory and snake handling over abysses never gets much wilder than this. And…

• 00:01:50

  Really? Yeah. No, I've not read Arto for 30 years. I mean, I just literally have nothing. It's just one of these things you don't think through this concept anymore, do you? No. Okay. Fair enough. Because I'm always getting pressure for it. It's much more valuable as a mystery than it is as a pseudo... Well, can I…

• 00:02:25

  I can with whatever minimal authority. Like Nick Lahan's notion about Mikey's version of Arto's notion of body without organ. Are you sure that will be like hyper-authority? It will be. Everybody will be. People... Yeah. They'll be critiquing every Deleuze scholar in the world on the basis of what you say here…

• 00:03:37

  So Spinoza says we still do not know what a body can do. Yeah. Well, if you find forms of experimentation that put your body in a situation that allows it to experience different intensities, different pressures, different sensations, different forms of enjoyment, you're tapping in to all of these different…

• 00:04:57

  They don't want it to... They don't want this metaphysical split between, you know, phenomena and noumena in the way that Schopenhauer understands it. They want the body without organs to be just as real and just as imminent to our world. It's just virtual opposed to actual. But... Yeah. The plane of consistency…

• 00:06:15

  And I think that's why I think it's so interesting. I think it's so interesting. I think it's so interesting. I think it's so interesting. I think it's so interesting. And how do you feel about that? The last one, obviously, is the most controversial. But like, yeah, no, I think that's right. I do think that's right…

• 00:06:46

  Yeah. No. I mean, look. Yeah. I'm reluctant to speak. I'm reluctant to speak as if with authority on this, but I do think that's exactly right. Because, look, the crucial thing, what does a Deleuze and Quattro mean? The full body without organs. Like, it's the fact that within the whole decimal system, nine and zero…

• 00:08:05

  So, yeah, sorry. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry…