Posted on September 17, 2005 at 23:51:27.
In Reply to: |Attn: Cold Me users| posted by RN
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By RN
One may suggest that I’m pathetically resisting against some kind of deterritorialization (i.e. a machine deterritorializing the tyranny of my identity) but I should warn in such seemingly intellectual ironies, there is always the danger of a facial reterritorialization stealthily erected on a non-rigid subjective ground (the expanse of pseudo-flux). Don’t search for a face where it has pasted; the face is always out of its place in the outside and beyond itself. The dynamism of the faciality machine is itself a symptomological trace of deterritorializing processes trapped in the economy of pseudo-flux:
“Over the lips, through the gums, across the bends of cheeks, nose, forehead and chin, something is running like a flowing deposition, sedimentary field of turbidity currents, work-of-fly (not the lines of flight): a slope process configuring the anomalous of the face and the faciality machine.
Denudation of a landscape is not depriving the landscape, as it is supposed to, but trying to mass-waste all unifacial slopes and molar constituents, introducing -- innovating by disintegrating -- them to n-plex and Gordian slopes, to discordant motions, to ever-transforming bits and particles, to fluent depositions of pseudo-flux, to the anomalous of a landscape -- such as the face -- then volatile hegemonikon of the surfactant, the modified and appropriated surface, the active one, liveware and its survival economy. This is why denudation invests the landscapes, and landscape tries to install denudation process. Solidus uses flux as an abrasive engine, then, flowing sediments or deposition process is the non-dispositif abrasive machinery of the flux. This is what pseudo-flux is all about; it invokes not only fertilizing forces of the ground but also installs a new flux-oriented power formation within the regime of solidity with its new maneuvers and weapons, tricks and twists; the abrasive mechanisms (the actions of silts configured within the flux) save solidity from collapse by economically softening it, and weaponize solid through the stream of flux to erode, remove, grind and mainly appropriate any resistance (settled or streaming). Wittfogel's hydraulic monopoly merely covers a trivial part of pseudo-flux and its militant distributions. It is the deposition process (or denudational 'forcing') by which Mass leaves monolithic and coagulated systems, runs as the non-volumetric flux, the nonvolumetric pseudo-flux of solid-fertilizing particles (displanted Mass) controlled not by bed-load but uprooted by torrential crisscross of the flux.” (Pestis Solidus)