"Holes are not the absence of particles, but particles going faster than light. Flying anuses, rapid vaginas, there is no castration."
Syb.stabce #44/45 on Gilles Deluze, "Woman in Limbo: Deluze and his Br(others)," Alice Jardine p. 54 This is a quote from Deluze and Guatarri's "A Thousand Plateaus"
I love that quote, flying anuses, rapid vaginas! Yeah fuck yous, there is no absence. No passivity, no emptiness. There is desire, but it's not the sick version you promote. There is desire and it's not driven by "lack", it's purpose is not to be satisfied, or 'filled', it drives itself, it is complete.
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I love that quote, flying anuses, rapid vaginas! Yeah fuck yous, there is no absence. No passivity, no emptiness. There is desire, but it's not the sick version you promote. There is desire and it's not driven by "lack", it's purpose is not to be satisfied, or 'filled', it drives itself, it is complete.
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But... Hegel says: Generally speaking, the I of Desire is an emptiness that receives a real positive content only by negating action that satisfies Desire in destroying, transforming, and "assimilating" the desired non-I.
to be honest I don't get what hegel's exactly on about in his writting on desire. He is an anti-freudian but sometimes he seems to be embracing the concept of penis envy in his description of desire, that is desire driven by lack. Bet he's for free flowing lines of flight etc. I'm so confused.
I guess if I'm to understand and agree with what you've quoted it hast to be very specificly what it says, that is about the "I" of desire, the drawback of pure driving force. I want to think that he means that without the I desire is still the purest form of motivation, self-driven.
Wtf am I on about, only way is to finally read Hegel, I've been trying to avoid it since highschool :P
Heh. I don't think Hegel was thinking much of sexual desire or penis envy at all. I guess he'd agree that desire is the purest form of motivation, in fact; the only form of motivation: without desire, no action. We can perceive the external reality, but as long as we only perceive it we do not know ourselves; becoming self-conscious means positing yourself in relation to the external reality, and this means some kind of desire. The desire is a lack, or a void, that is satisfied by negating action. Simplest example: watching a carrot and realizing you're hungry. This desire moves you to an action that destroys/transforms the carrot; i.e. you eat it.
The real crux comes with the difference between biological and human desire. Human's have biological desires (like hunger), but they also have the capacity for desiring something that is not, and that is to desire another desire. The desire of desire is what moves us to change the essence of nature, and create history.
Blaaaaaaah. I need to eat a jaffa cake and clean my head from this philosophical filth. Rapid vaginas is a 1000 times better than anything Hegel came up with.
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