Not really a fan of post-modernism but...

Found this poetic interpretation of the work of Deleuze and Guattari in one of my old college journals today. I thought it was slightly entertaining, enough so to share:

The Stratification of a Thousand Oedipi

Stratification is the verification
of the inscription
transcription
description
of the body with out organs
the body that is free flowing
free growing
free of all
It is the machines that
make order, reorder
record order and
territorialize
And the body with out organs
finds these masochistic pleasures
slowing, thickening
imprisoning, locking
habitualizing
separating and sensualizing
It pulls away
but it is addicted
to a lobster with a stenograph machine
a lobster as a stenograph machine
reading, being read
articulating and interpreting
pontificating?
compressing, being compressed
first, last and all becoming sedimentized
imposed upon, selected from
order, statistics
unstable molasses flows
folded upon folds
structure, function
cementation?
total, hierarchical, final
Simultaneously coded and defined
interpreted in language
formed, molded, placed
territory-wise
Good, bad, needed? polysignified
dichotomized, polarized relations
of segments
of strata
of substrata
of interstrata
of strata articulations
There is unity
then diversity
then division
in the process of stratification
but is it a process
or is it an end?

Keeping my hand in...

As part of the life reconsideration that happens every year about this time, I am determined to write more than the occasional every third month. I know that I am starting a little late off the block the traditional date for resolutions is the first, but the 13th isn't that bad. Okay, now it's the 23rd. That is bad. I have nothing spectacular to write about at the moment. There have been a few issues floating around in my head for a few months. Just a few random questions. If you, people who might possibly be reading this, have answers please let me know.

1. Does Truth need a market to viable? Do the ratings, sales, etc. need to be high for the truth to make it into the mainstream of mediated knowledge?

2. Do people still truly believe in the American dream, the Horatio Alger’s myth, you to can have roads paved with gold if only you work hard enough? People do occasionally pull themselves up by the proverbial bootstraps, but is this the exception rather than the rule? The 'system' is set against so many people, hoping to guarantee their failure to fill our prison and fill up the ranks of our military. And the idea of capitalism, in its current incarnation, strives to let those organizations with the most pariah-like behavior get ahead of the rest. Here's another related to question: Can one succeed in life, according to the American Dream version of success, with out falling prey to the ideology and values of this system, can one succeed and not sell out? Would someone with out the same values exalted by this system truly want to succeed in the way in which we are told we should by the society around us?

3. If a train traveling from Chicago leaves at 8:30 AM traveling at a consistent speed of 65mph, and another train leaves New York City at 9:45 AM traveling at a consistent speed of 70mph, at what time will they mysteriously be zapped out of existence by an alien race from three galaxies over?

That's all.