Deleuze for the Desperate #7: lines of flight
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- A discussion, with some examples, of lines of flight in literature and politics (subectivity, sexual identity). Comparisons with other lines in A Thousand Plateaus -- eg lines of segmentation. The transcript also contains more examples and discussion
you`ve made it all so beautifully simple without losing any of the meaningful complexity. and you`ve contributed all this work to the world completely free, an incredible academic donation. thank you
Many thanks Barton Ryan. Best wishes for your own work
Barton Ryan this can’t be emphasised enough. Thank you for contributing to the principle of free academic information when it’s under siege by monetised journals and paywalls.
Thank you so much
Newly formed rhizome. Most heartfelt thanks to you Dave
You are very welcome sven-arebjerke564. Best of luck with your own projects
Just letting you know that your videos are hits among a small group of leftists in Austin, Texas.
Thanks so much for making them.
Very glad to hear that Adam.Best wishes to everybody
leftist in Texas lol
Adam, watching this video and saw your comment!! Was wondering who the small group was, looking for some fellow d&g readers in my area!
A real work of love and care. Thanks.
Many thanks for this richardsmith.Very encouraging. Best wishes
I hope you realize how important is this kind of work.
I really appreciate your making this video, it's made many things so much clearer and many more even more exciting to learn about.
Many thanks! Very encouraging
Should probably take the time to simply thank you, Dave, for creating these videos. I've been continually engaged with Deleuze since undergrad back in 03, so that there have been plenty of points that helped me to gain some greater clarity. Shoring up to finally read D&R;)
Glad to be of assistance zurkonic. Good luck with your project
Thanks for these. I'm working on a Deleuze as a grad student, and these have been very helpful.
Keep going Sereptie
lol hey craig from the acid horizon
Just getting into Deleuze's thought and these videos are incredibly useful to me. You are great at explaining complex, often obtuse concepts in a straightforward way. I may be 5 years late to the party but I appreciate it a lot!
Thanks for this George Dallas. I appreciate your supportive comments. Best of luck with your own projects
thank you so much for the great video, i am working on the idea of becoming, and i look forward to receiving your next video of becoming. thank you again
Thanks for this gigdiz. I hope your work is going well
Ignore that, I got the transcript from a previous post, duh!
Anyone know how to get a transcript? This is a great lecture! I finally understood (I think) something that has bothered me for years. Lines of flight make sense when juxtaposed with lines of segmentation! Amazing! Thank you!
Good stuff!
Hello! Thanks so much for your vidoes - just wondering where to find the transcript? And also which edition of ATP are you using / would you recommend? Many thanks, J xx
Hi Jenny Maxwell. The transcript for this one is on www.arasite.org/deltranscript7loff.html. Transcripts for all the others can be found on my Deleuze page: www.arasite.org/deleuzep.html. I am using the 2004 edition of ATP published by Continuum. Best wishes
brilliant videos, thanks for making this book more approachable.
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Great Videos congratulation
Thanks alberto ok
hi how can we use this idea of line of flight, to improve everyday life, for personal growth reasons and can you give an example please
say when you look at a drawing by paul klee and the lines take you on an eye journey. then you look at more and more and you see those lines everywhere . Maybe then your life has a connection, an assemblage made of Paul Klee lines, this small assemblage may help resist , apply liberally.
Hi Jane. I think the examples that offer this sort of possible improvement refer to deterritorializing oppressive identities or categories generally -- like binary sexual divisions, oppressive bureaucratic ones, or those that centre on the human subject. We need to search for a way out, and this might invovle examining how things got so territorialized in the first place
Great. I am spurred to want to write about your videos -as a one time active "Video Artist" myself and now current Academic Adjunct nearing the end of a dwindling career -I hope you don't find my comments tedious or ham fisted. It appears this video is machinic in the making, am I right to assume it is either on a remote controlled cart or the camera operator clearly the operator is on some machine? and the focus at least mechanical? I thought of Michael Snow's machinic work, and Gary Hill's brilliant uses. (I know delineating the 'intentions' of the artist isn't the end-all of criticism -but then again, I'm just some guy commenting on youtube) either way, the thought of the specific use of a machinic aspect in this video allowed me more generosity toward other aspects of this video and see them as less than accidental or distracting elements: for instance the speed of the camera movements, that were at first jarring in relation to the narration, swerves and dips that refused to settle on what I very much and very conventionally wanted to drink with my eyes - the visual beauty of the landscape that here just yells for very slow takes or even stationary, with long focus pulls or pans, early Bill Viola "I Do Not Know What It Is I am Like"-ish diffusions and the like - but the camera movement wouldn't fall into that -thwarted! with the expected aesthetic candy kept at a distance by the machinic. Seeing it this way, which I came to believe was the case when I understood there were wheels under this - the dips and swerves seemed deliberate. This then was confirmed by the narrative. Reading it this way also let me integrate another aspect I've found with your videos that has, I'll admit, felt an ultra-tiny-bit distracting up to now (mostly I'm watching them in order) and that is the seeming discomfort with having people linger in the frame. Having taught 'video art' production for decades I at first sort of assumed this was a result of what many students used to experience in the days before iphone cameras made filming almost invisible, I saw that often the reaction to the activity of filming and the camera caused self-consciousness from the students. At first I attributed that to you -or also thought perhaps you don't want objectification and exploitation or don't want the focus removed from the larger context - this last take what felt best, that worked best with the D&G materials. but now, after the the use of the machinic coupled with the narrative about the machinic and line-of-flights that thwart conventional expectations, where my facile desires to linger on the conventional beauty of the very beautiful landscape are thwarted, or when the postcard beauty of the 'cottage-by-sea' is paused over just as issue of the tenacity of conventional aesthetic expectations is discussed - I see the avoidance to people as both keeping with D&G's insistence on the larger contexts, the earth, animals and so on, rather than settling on all the easy fascinations that come bundled on and with specific personalities.
Anyway, I hope you don't mind me babbling about your videos, I have been pretty much uninspired by self-conscious 'Video Art', and in fact pretty much anything to do with 'art' and the 'art world' since youtube entered the scene - I now find the rise of genre of 'Philosophy tutorial videos' to be the most interesting stuff happening, though most of it needs to find its measure dictated by the success or failure to transmit concise information and so most of it never rises above utility. But, perhaps due to the nature of the material of D&G and your seeming disinterest in screaming 'Art!', your work seems to be something fresh - or perhaps it could be that after 5 years since I read 1000Plates, while chaperoning biology students on a 3-month safari in Tanzania (a non-stop set of sublime text-to-world coincidences that would turn a mystic's head, with every read-sentence relating directly to the world around me as living example!!) and 5 years since focusing on Deleuze, I now am starting to feel I'm finding my way? In either case, If I were still active in the art-thing/curating-thang, I'd figure out a way to get your vids reframed, or supplementarily reframed or etc or at least seen by other artists I like to share work with . . . anyway . . . now on to the rest of the series . . .
pffam -- you have identified and articulated much better than I could a number of half-baked semi-conscious ideas I have been toying with for a while and have tried to implement using amateur kit while thinking about Deleuze and Guattari (and others). I wish all the effects were carefully controlled and deliberate but, alas some of them were indeed accidental and unintended. The issue still remains one of using video to somehow comment on or accompany philosophy which challeneges conventional notions, including those built into conventional kit and conventional discourse, while trying to avoid retreat into private languages or 'art'. You obviously have some gripping ideas and have had some experiences of your own to contribute here -- so please contribute yourself.Many thanks for your interest
Great discussion, but the rocking of the camera is a bit nauseating.
Really sorry about that. Just listen to the sound?
Curious
Who is?You?Me? The material?
Please do becoming animal, I listen to these whilst in studio
OK Peter. Thanks for the suggestion. I might context it with a discussion of becoming generally
that would be of great interest to all, becoming is such a productive force in D&G
Philosophical transgenderism...interesting
Yes -- time to introduce it into the current debates?