Here is a first draft of one of the creatures we could potentially use in the intallation commenting on introduced species....
Friday, February 23, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Abstract Overcoding Machines
So I am back on planet EARTH and going to apologize for not responding here earlier. I really like to two boat images Sven – there is kind of this sense of absurdity about these boats walking along, as if they could walk on water or something.
So here is a bit on abstract overcoding machines. It’s from: Gilles Deleuze and Clare Parnet (1987) ‘Many Politics’ in Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, New York: Columbia University Press.
Page 129
:: it is not that the apparatus of the state has no meaning: it has itself a very special function, in as much as it overcodes all the segments, both those that it takes on itself at a given moment and those that it leaves outside itself.
:: or rather the apparatus of the State is a concrete assemblage which realizes the machine of overcoding of a Society. This machine is in turn not the State itself, it is the abstract machine which organizes the dominant utterances and established order of a society (dominant language and knowledge, segments which prevail over the others).
:: the abstract machine ensures the homogenization of different segments, the convertibility, the translatability
:: regulates the passage from one side to the other (TIES IN WITH SHIPS AND RIVERS!)
:: does not depend on the state, but its effectiveness depends on the state as the assemblage which realizes it in a social field.
There are a whole pile of other Deleuze and Guattarian concepts that tie in with this, like the near seers and their terrible ray telescopes, and the far seers, who see things entirely different than the others see. Life is just like a giant unstable floating machine of different segments that sometimes watch each other and sometimes compete. Perhaps I should just start interpreting these concepts visually into the work?
So here is a bit on abstract overcoding machines. It’s from: Gilles Deleuze and Clare Parnet (1987) ‘Many Politics’ in Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, New York: Columbia University Press.
Page 129
:: it is not that the apparatus of the state has no meaning: it has itself a very special function, in as much as it overcodes all the segments, both those that it takes on itself at a given moment and those that it leaves outside itself.
:: or rather the apparatus of the State is a concrete assemblage which realizes the machine of overcoding of a Society. This machine is in turn not the State itself, it is the abstract machine which organizes the dominant utterances and established order of a society (dominant language and knowledge, segments which prevail over the others).
:: the abstract machine ensures the homogenization of different segments, the convertibility, the translatability
:: regulates the passage from one side to the other (TIES IN WITH SHIPS AND RIVERS!)
:: does not depend on the state, but its effectiveness depends on the state as the assemblage which realizes it in a social field.
There are a whole pile of other Deleuze and Guattarian concepts that tie in with this, like the near seers and their terrible ray telescopes, and the far seers, who see things entirely different than the others see. Life is just like a giant unstable floating machine of different segments that sometimes watch each other and sometimes compete. Perhaps I should just start interpreting these concepts visually into the work?
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