Re:Back to Deleuze/Guattari on fascism

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

Ha ha!  Zizek on all fours!  What an apt thing to say about the
pan-sexualist Zizek whose claim to fame is his point that dialecticians
should learn to count to four!  I'll tell you about Klaus Theweleit when
I've read him -- probably October, at my present rate ...

>David's point is well taken: ANTI-OEDIPUS is still crawling through the
>Lacanian nightmare (where we can find Mr. Zizek today, on all fours);
>only in THOUSAND PLATEAUX does the collective resistance in all its
>multiplicity arrive.  I read these in (typically) reverse order, so I
>read and still read much of the second volume back into the first - it's
>comments like yours that help me keep the context vivid.  Please tell us
>about Thelewhatever!
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>Bryan Alexander                                 Department of English
>email: bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx                       University of Michigan
>phone: (313) 764-0418                           Ann Arbor, MI  USA    48103
>fax: (313) 763-3128                             http://www.umich.edu/~bnalexan
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>On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, David McInerney wrote:
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>> To Bryan, Gary, Jon et. al.
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>> This discussion is very stimulating.  Unfortunately I do not have the time
>> at the moment to say very much.  What I will say is this -- I found Jon's
>> paper *very* interesting, especially when he spoke about the shifts from
>> _Anti-Oedipus_ to _A Thousand Plateaus_ and of the work of Klaus Theweleit.
>> What I found interesting was precisely the shift from the Lacanisn
>> preoccupation with the family form and the Oedipal-complex to a serious
>> engagement with the libidinal effects of *different* ways of organising
>> desire, such as the fascist *party*.  The Lacanian approach of taking
>> Oedipus as a hermeneutic principle and reading into everything seems like a
>> very self-defeating appraoch to studying the dynamics of fascist parties
>> (and other organisations, such as Orangist lodges in Ulster, etc).  But the
>> begiinings of an alternative approach to these questions seem to be there
>> in the later work of Deleuze-Guattrai and Theweleit.  I found this aspect
>> of Jon's paper stimulating enough to prompt me to invest in Theweleit's
>> books (_Male Fantasies_ 2 vols and _Object-Choice_) and in the two
>> Deleuze-Guattari _Capitalism and Schizophrenia_ volumes.  Now to find the
>> time to read them.
>>
>>
>> Mr. David McInerney,
>> Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
>> The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
>> e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051
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Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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