Monday, January 29, 2007

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?

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