Virtual Futures 1995 - Deleuze, Guattari & The Human Security System (Jon Beasley-Murray)-1

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:07

  a theoretical model or trope. Indeed, in A Thousand Plateaus, it is an analysis of historical Marxism which promotes a significant development of Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical project, a development that marks what is perhaps that book's most significant difference from Ante Oedipus. In the context…

• 00:04:13

  Unquote. Orthodox morality, enforced through the repression of basic sexual instinct, produces an identification with authority and with the state, which is structured on the model of the patriarchal family. Unquote. Deleuze and Guattari continue Reich's project precisely at the point that he acknowledges…

• 00:07:42

  Of course, for Deleuze and Guattari, Oedipus affects this organization of desire and of libidinal investment. Oedipus has specific relations of production of desire, corresponding to a particular mode of production of desire. Oedipus is a fetter upon desiring production, organizing desiring production in the interest…

• 00:12:26

  Taberleit in moving the analysis of fascism away from interpretations of the state, the family, and Oedipus, even anti-oedipal, is a very interesting argument. For Taberleit, Oedipus points to the limits of both the mass psychology of fascism and anti-oedipus. His emphasis on the individual and the pack…

• 00:16:56

  To a certain extent, then, Antioedipus was never certain of its analysis of fascism. Table 8 replicates and accentuates this uncertainty through his representation of the historical formation of proto-fascists. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari return to the problematic of fascism with a new interest…

• 00:21:45

  It is sobering to note the complexity of resistance, and the impossibility of ever celebrating resistance or resisting through celebration. Was not anti-Oedipus from the start an investigation into how revolutionary groups, might have unconscious libidinal investments as a fascist character? There is no space here…

• 00:30:11

  a molar fascism and a molecular fascism, and a micro-fascism, which they talk about, which is, like, what might be inherent, particularly in anti-utopists, in revolutionary groups themselves, is what they're worrying about. I don't think this, like, rests so much on the distinction between micro and macro. I guess…

• 00:38:14

  So I don't know. I have a few more topics to come, but I don't know if there's so much for my show to do.