P.282

Aug 29, 2008 15:15

What do you folks make of the rather odd illustrations and diagrams on p.282? I can't make heads or tails of it, but by god it must be important because its depicted on the back cover of my edition. What gives?

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sodapopinski51 August 30 2008, 03:28:58 UTC
The diagram is like a pendulum swinging back and forth, becoming more or less intensely schizophrenic, traversing these different compartments with actual existing medical schizophrenia..
However, I can't tell if they are criticizing or praising the "Universal clinical theory" they are discussing. Typically they despise any sort of bad universality... ironically, rejecting universality is a sort of universal rule for them.

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sodapopinski51 September 3 2008, 01:01:16 UTC
Whew, that's a dissertation right there... but they loathed Hegel, mostly because they viewed all conceptions of "Universal History" as being a purely State-oriented political project. It is the state that creates the impetus for collective action and any kind of general will (or what Marx and subsequent post-marxists like Paolo Virno called "general intellect") and that this creates a vast homogenizing intellectualism... Universal history creates a political theory and collective desire based on a binary choice between "Unity" or "Difference" rather than thinking of politics and desire as "Unifying/Difference ( ... )

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