Antonin Artaud

#4 Anti-Oedipus: paranoid machine

04.04.2003 Antonin Artaud
4 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organs

Give me an example of a BwO: “eyes closed tight, nostrils pinched shut, ears stopped up” (pp. 37-38). Why is the BwO closed off? D&G define the BwO as a paranoid machine: a machine of primary repression. This paranoiac is hypersensitive, it suffers from desiring-machines, and wishes it could turn them all off. Desiring-machines are [...]

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#3 Anti-Oedipus: Emptiness as Resistance

04.03.2003 Antonin Artaud
3 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organs

But how can something be full, when it is emptied out? “The mad state is, as he emphasizes over and over again, empty. Teeming with emptiness. Knotted with emptiness. Immodest in its emptiness. You can pull emptiness out of it by the handful. “I am not here. I am not here and never will be.” [...]

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#2 Anti-Oedipus: Full Empty

04.02.2003 Antonin Artaud
2 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organs

What is a body without organs? D&G say that the BwO is full—full in the sense that it is a blank surface without the interconnected functions or parts that organs would be. It is full precisely because it lacks any depth or differentiation. D&G claim that the body suffers from being organized in a triangulated [...]

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Artaud #6: something about microphony that forces you to listen inside the sounds

04.02.2003 Antonin Artaud
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Artaud was constantly trying to separate the voice from the body… finding a way for the voice to speak outside of the body… What is so radical about crooning: it’s romantic and relies upon microphone… you can here more of the breath… a microphone allows you to hear the insides of people’s mouths… a new form [...]

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#1 Making a Body without Organs

04.01.2003 Antonin Artaud
1 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organs

The body without organs first appeared in Deleuze’s (1990) The Logic of Sense, then in Deleuze and Guattari’s (1984) Anti-Oedipus and then in Deleuze and Guattari’s (1988) A Thousand Plateaus. The term was first coined by Antonin Artaud in the 1940s, and Deleuze and Guattari (1988: 150) suggest that Artaud made himself a body without organs when [...]

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To Have Done with the Judgment of God: Artaud, Deleuze, and the Body without Organs

03.20.2003 Antonin Artaud

For you can tie me up if you wish, but there is nothing more useless than an organ. When you will have him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom To Have Done with the Judgment of God, Antonin Artaud [...]

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Artaud #5: cruelty-as-necessity is a metaphysical kind of cruelty

03.12.2003 Antonin Artaud
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What does Artaud mean when he talks about theater as plague that can only be resolved by death… Becoming, fatality, chaos… These are Artaud’s main things in the theater of cruelty… The cruelty-as-necessity is a metaphysical kind of cruelty… it’s not cruelty on the body… it’s the way object exist in the world… this kind [...]

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#8 Anti-Oedipus: BwO

03.08.2003 Antonin Artaud
8 of 13 in Notes on the body w/o organs

Desire and subjectivity? Where did you go? Is the BwO a real body or some sort of metaphor for capitalism? Well, D&G don’t really beleive in metaphor. No representation. No modeling or mini. For D&G, we are always “becoming.” So, in essense, we become capital and capital becomes us. It’s about the processes, the production [...]

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Artaud #4: the valorization of psychotic symptoms-as-aesthetic

02.26.2003 Antonin Artaud
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Restructuring the body according to desire… So much of the inner conflict of Surrealism had to do with the specifics is how the libidinal body is labels… (Artaud, Bastille, and Dali were all asked to leave)… In each of these instances, the representations of the body surpassed Breton (and other’s) what the libidinal body would [...]

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Artaud #3: The void, maybe, is the space between the judge and the judge

02.05.2003 Antonin Artaud
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How do you base a poetics on the valorization of a total extinction? Artaud doesn’t think ‘time’ exactly. He thinks of extinction in terms of force and non-force. The void, maybe, is the space between the judge and the judged. (Artaud seems to hold both places at the same time). Is it a question of poetry and poetics: [...]

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