Be the Pink Panther and your loves will be like the wasp and the orchid...

Here is the second reading we decided on for next week, alongside more of A Thousand Plateaus #3 '10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)'

Manuel De Landa ' The Geology of Morals: A Neo-Materialist Interpretation':

http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/geology.htm

And a useful outline summary of ATP #3:

http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/PDF/ATP3.pdf

Some Links for Capitalism and Schizophrenia

I haven't had time to go through all of these, but I enjoyed the illustrations a lot, and am just starting with the Hardt lecture notes. I didn't want to suggest these all as reading for the group per se, I thought I would just throw them onto the page and see if anyone is compelled to look into any of them and we'll see how that connects in with and fans out among the other conversations and readings. see you tomorrow! -abc (image from Marc Ngui, from the link below with pictures)

1000 Plateaus on Google Books (with significant portions available in preview, though I don't think they are printable):

http://books.google.com/books?id=B9xLrS6mpGoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0

This links to lecture notes/chapter summaries by Michael Hardt on Anti-Oedipus and 1000 Plateaus (as well as Das Kapital):

http://www.duke.edu/~hardt/

These are some fun drawings / visual representations of the first two chapters of 1000 Plateaus:

http://www.bumblenut.com/drawing/art/plateaus/index.shtml

An entire "Wiki" (fledgling from the looks of it) on the series Capitalism & Schizophrenia:

http://www.capitalismandschizophrenia.org/index.php/Main_Page

Essay about the Translation of Agencement by Assemblage

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/deleuzeandguattari.htm

D&G Web Resource page (including links to some De Landa)

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/Academe.html#anchor649215

"ABCs of Deleuze" on Youtube

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/ABCs.html

Realer than real

Here's the Masumi article to read for next week (along with chapter 2 of a thousand plateaus)

Realer than real: The simulacrum according to Deleuze and Guattari

I also came accross these quite useful summaries for various works by Deleuze/Guattari where the different chapters are broken down as an index of statements. can be quite useful for extracting the basic claims/arguments made...

Protevi's Notes

-Andres

Two resources for finding interesting texts:

http://a.aaaarg.org/

You need to create an account/username, then you can download the texts that you see on that page. Also, there are many discussions about various ideas and thinkers, some of which are very helpful.

http://www.avaxhome.ws/ebooks

This searchable site compiles links to various free and anonymous file uploading services (like rapidshare or uploading.com) from where you can download PDFs of over 100,000 texts. They don't have everything, but there's a lot of interesting stuff in here.

Also, a friend of mine at the FU who is taking classes with David Harvey this semester has been inspired to start a blog discussion forum. Harvey gave two free, public talks in the last week, but I didn't find out in time. I'll try to post details if I find out in time, and here's the blog:

http://harveydiscussion.tumblr.com/

-abc

Yogic alternative to capitalism

I came across this book After Capitalism: PROUT's vision for a new world. It was written by a monk from the organization Ananda Marga. (in another life I used to be very involved with them, but now allergic to transendentalism, dogmatism, and the whole Guru concept).

Still their Guru was sort of an interesting figure. He developed a socio-political system called PROUT, i.e. progressive utilization theory. It's been many years since I read anything about this, so do not know the details. But I think some points would connect to that k-punk post about anti-capitalism and energy.

Anyway, I am always very sceptical now about anything that hints of mysticism. But I think PROUT is at least grounded in rational argument. And the book has an intro by Noam Chomsky, which to me gives it some credibility. If anything, this is another angle/perspective..

Have not read the book myself, but thought I would post the summary now, for general info, and maybe buy it. It might, at some point, be an interesting addition to the discussions.

After Capitalism

- Dada Maheshvarananda

This book offers a better, practical alternative to global capitalism. It explains the Progressive Utilization Theory, or Prout, a socio-economic model based on decentralized economic democracy, cooperative enterprise, the ethics of inclusion and universal spiritual values. The book asserts that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction, based as it is on greed, intense competition and tremendous concentration of wealth. In contrast, Prout provides a model of economic development grounded in universal values. It seeks to balance regional self-reliant economic development with ecological protection, and encourages creativity and innovation. (Jeroen)

This weeks reading (for tuesday 14th) is the first chapter of a thousand plateaus - rhizome.
download it here

Foucault and Lefebvre

Hello,

Here is the link to the Foucault article I mentioned in which he presents his concept of 'heterotopias'. Heterotopias are sites in which space and time have an alternative ordering to the dominant spatial and temporal orderings of a society. Could possibly be usefully applied to understanding non-capitalist spaces.

http://foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html

And an introduction to Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space (1974). For those not familiar with his work, Lefebvre is a French Marxist theorist of space who argued that capitalism reproduces itself through the production of an 'abstract space' which is fragmented and hierarchical and dominates over 'lived space'

http://www.notbored.org/space.html

Maybe these could be our two readings one week?

Lucrezia