Acid Horizon presents Concepts in Focus: The Body without Organs, Part 1

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I perceive the "mission" or "goal" that you have set for yourselves with the creation of this channel (as it is explained in the description of this video) admirable on a most deep level and would like to thank you for this endeavor from the depths of my heart (that proverbial organ :D)

[@nullhyperthesis8428]

This episode may have actually changed my life permanently. Thanks for all of your top tier content. Best audio quality in the game too if you ask me.

[@AcidHorizon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Great explanation, hope your channel continues to pop off

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[@Anabsurdsuggestion]

What a great breakdown of the BwO. Well written and delivered. Thank you!

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I just started touching on DG work. extremely difficult and Acid Horizon is the first I would spend my next month time tonlearn from. thanks. just subscribed

[@rwo23]

I am like 80 pages in to anti-Oedipus and could not pin down a few of the terms to my liking. this really helped me!

[@AcidHorizon]

Glad this helped.

[@vvendetta721]

Which ones?

[@aesop1451]

Deleuze was a process philosopher. He picks up Heraclitus (the Lao-Tzu of the West) and puts him in the 20th century. Like Nietzsche, Deleuze believes Plato ruined Western metaphysics by creating a substance-based ontology. Instead of reality being constant flux, Plato says reality is created by Eternal Forms. Taoism is not just a philosophy. It also has a practical component to it. Lao-Tzu says to follow the Dao or wu-wei. Nietzsche framed it in terms of beyond good and evil (duality). Now you see the theme of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. The Taoist path is neidan (inner alchemy). In alchemy, you have to produce the philosopher's stone. In Christian terms, you need to find a fruit from the Tree of Life. Wu-wei is transcendence through immanence. Jesus tells Nicodemus he needs to be born again. In process philosophy, reality is described as panentheistic. God is in the world and the world is in God. THE BODY WITHOUT ORGANS. This solves scientific problems like "How did consciousness arise from matter?" If you want to see Deleuzian metaphysics through the world religions, read Evola's Yoga of Power, Ride the Tiger, and Eros and the Mysteries of Love. Deleuze is a modern day magus.

[@anupamapadmanabhan743]

Thank you for explaining the concept!! Waiting for the follow up videos.

[@AcidHorizon]

Coming soon!

[@kingdomcummies8128]

Lol, immediately I went to a perverted place when you started. D&G: Notoriously impenetrable. Foucault: Notoriously penetrable. I'm sorry.

[@LongKestrel]

Very cool.

[@giovanigarcia4967]

thank you

[@AcidHorizon]

You're welcome.

[@jamesferry1523]

This is great. Are we gonna get a part 2?

[@AcidHorizon]

I suppose it's high time i did something about it

[@larss4119]

Yes!

[@vvendetta721]

It's only been a year😉

[@johnblack4633]

As far as philosophical concepts are concerned, this is the holy of holies. I think a much larger and more explixit emphasis needs to be put on "space" when discussing Deleuze and Guttari. Flows, multiplicities, rhizomes, plane of immanenc, subject/object distinctions, these all relate to a type of 3d space that deleuze is describing. The body without organs, appears to be the space itself - kind of like the higgs field in the standard model.

[@apalu7783]

This is amazing explanation, I always found hard understanding reading D&G, keep it up 😻😻😻

[@AcidHorizon]

Thank you!

[@kssbuxx]

Beyond helpful for me.. tnx..

[@dangerousideas5356]

fantastic

[@AcidHorizon]

Thank you for listening!

[@blablabla63923]

This reads like a BWO Reader, a much-needed resource! Thank you. I had one question.. I’ve read somewhere - can’t recall where - that “partial objects” for DnG is not only a critique of the part-whole theoretical structure, as youve eloquently put it here, but also the French conveys “partial” as in “bias.” So, all objects or machines want to organize in a certain sense given material conditions. At one point in AO I think they say how these biased objects flow toward certain spaces given specific situations or topologies, almost like how water shapes itself according to its immediate terrain. I suppose partial object could also refer to desiring machines, as in parts or bits, but then if so - if I understand this correctly - it would have to be kind of like the idea of a copy without an original; so, you’d have parts or assemblages/machines without recourse to a whole/origin/blueprint, if that makes sense?

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

In a sense, I suppose. This “bias” is like desiring-production: all machines are oriented towards some process of change based on the zones of indiscernibility that are closest to it (they say this almost verbatim in A Thousand Plateaus). As such, these objects are inseparable from their assemblages which impart upon them, or allow to arise, the “partial” function - aka then never reaching a final form, but rather being a member of a burgeoning process of fits/starts, speed/slowness.

[@TheVivianwan1011]

Where’s part two?

[@AcidHorizon]

I have a video in progress...

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@@AcidHorizon hows that going?

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W.... what?