Mille Plateaux

jul 5, 2009,
Here’s Natalia’s message about the reading for this tuesday. Attatchments dont work on the e-mail list but I’ve put the document up on the blog so you can download it there - radicaltheoryberlin.blogspot.com Andres

From: Natalia Realpe Carrillo
Subject: finally.. Economic Theory
Hi everybody!
First.. I´m sorry I send you this document just today, but last week I
was looking for articles to send to you.. but then I decided to make a
“glossary” of basic concepts, since every article that criticize the
economic assumptions, assumed you knew them already.. and then I had
some technical problems that .. na ja, lange Geschichte..
Thats why .. i want to ask for apologize for this “very simple”
concepts, which although are written for “kids”.. they will be very
useful if we want to talk later about the systems and how do they work…
However, I attached a part from a text from Adam Smith (one of the
famous economists ever) from 1776 who was one of the first people to
describe why economics überhaupt works or exists..
The last part (asymmetric information) is another topic which involves
the “decision making” subject.. although I just paste some general
concepts this field covers, maybe in a future we can go on better
readings to discuss the “sogennante” Human Rationality. I hope that it isn´t that late to send you this document. Its really
very easy to read; I would recommend you to print it and if you have
any question, I will try to answer it on Tuesday evening..
the Adam Smith book is called: The wealth of Nations
the definitions i got from amosweb.com
as you can see, most of the theory is based on “scarcity of resources”
and the need to trade them. about the rational instincts within
economics, are matter of the “decision making” part..
byee! and see you soon Natalia

SYNTHESIZER DES DENKENS
Juli 3th, 2009

MillePlateaux
Arbeitskreis: Schule der Sinne: Für die Vielfalt synthetischer Klangerzeugnisse

Nach Gilles Deleuze und Felix Guattari, den Autoren des Werkes „Tausend Plateaus“ sollte man Denken wie Werkzeug, bzw. Tools verwenden. In diesem Sinne versuchen wir Gedanken und Instrumente zu finden, die den Prozess zur Herstellung von Klängen direkt inspirieren. Die zentrale These in den Kapiteln über Musik und die Moderne in Tausend Plateaus ist die, dass elektronische Musik im wesentlichen bestimmt ist durch die Beziehung von Klangmaterialien und Kräften; dass Klangmaschinierien, sowie Deleuze und Guattari das nennen, die heute ihre letzten Gefüge im Computer und im Synthesiser haben, Prozesse von Klangsynthetisierungen in Gang setzen auf der Basis, dass man heute Musik als Prozesse der Generierung durch Algorythmen zu sehen hat.

Letztendlich hat jede Musik eine mathematische Basis, was im Synthesizer in der neuen Elektronik erst auf den Punkt kommt und uns das Wesen des musikmachens
entschlüsselt.

Was Deleuze als „Kräfteeinfangen“ bezeichnet sind so etwas wie Dauerintensitäten die Wünsche freisetzen, den Wunsch in unmittelbarer Verbindung mit der Maschine koexistieren lassen; Wunschmaschine als unmittelbarer politischer Mikroprozess.

Deleuze und Guattari sprechen von Molekularisierung der Klangmaterialien, von der Suche nach neuen Zeit- und Geschwindigkeitsbeziehungen in der Musik und vom ständigen Aufbrechen von verhärteten Musikalischen Formen, die früher im Punkte- und Notensystem oder heute im binären Universalcode eingeschrieben sind.

Klangmaschinerie ist mehr als die technologische Musikmaschine, es ist auch immer eine Arbeit gegen die Standards des Gerätes, es geht um aufbrechen und dekonstruieren. Im konzeptionellen Arbeiten an Software geht es auch um Überwindung von Restriktionen und Normen, um Überwinden von Grenzen, um Transformationen. Es geht nicht um das Arbeiten mit Tricks, sondern darum, die Bedingungen elektronischer Musik zu diskutieren, die Interfaces zu problematisieren, Frequencis-Politik und Hardware-Critisism zu betreiben.

Als Navigator innerhalb des Maschinen-und Computerparks gilt es, so etwas wie Subjektivität überhaupt noch denken zu können. Insofern ist es das freie Rezipieren, das freie Denken, das man als Inspiration für Musik benutzt, auch im Hinblick auf die Medientheorien und technologischen Medien. Die interessantesten Positionen dazu wurden in den letzten Jahren von Gilles Deleuze und Felix Guattari gedacht.

Hi all, The next readinggroup meeting will be on tuesday 23th june, 7pm (19h) at PremArts.

I’ve more or less sorted out the blog so that everyone can access and post stuff -
the address is
http://radicaltheoryberlin.blogspot.com

ask for username & password! mail: radicaltheoryberlin@googlemail.com

so feel free to post aticles, audio or video of interest, and thoughts & comment on the reading or discussions, hopefully soon we can arrange the blog a bit with seperate sections for resources and discussion.

I’ll try to send out my part of the reading in the next few days.

Andres

“In the metropolitan struggles, the biopolitical strike defines the principle articulation of the attack strategy that the irreconciliated forms-of-life take against the metropolis of command. Today, the refusal of work cannot be other than the refusal to concede pieces of life, fragments of affections and shreds of knowledge to cybernetic capitalism. Today, struggle against capitalism is the direct removal of bodies from exploitation and attacking revenue, guerrilla warfare against gentrification and violent appropriation of the Common, sabotage of the control devices and destabilization of political and social representation. Likewise, and just as direct, is the wild experimentation in the forms-of-life, liberation of affections, construction of communities, inoculation of happiness and dynamic expansion of desires. Just as bodies – in as much singularity as in population – are the target of the biopolitical police and exploitation, it is only starting from the singularity of bodies that every human, biopolitical, general strike against the metropolis starts: it is in the singularity as form-of-life that holds the Ungovernability that resists biopower. Capitalist initiative can be anticipated, at least if diffused singular refusal is accompanied by the decision to build a metropolitan organization of autonomous groups able to bring the rebel forms- of-life to become an insurgent multitude. When singularities rise up as a Common body, the Ungovernable can become revolutionary process.”
(http://occupiedlondon.org/20theses)

The next readinggroup meeting will be on tuesday 9th june, 7pm (19h) at PremArts.

You gang:

here’s my part of the reading for the next session - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/005660.html
John, did you have any luck with finding the ‘idiot’ article you mentioned? If you can’t get it in the next few days I suggest we find another text by or about deleuze to read alongside the k-punk article, maybe something from the Brian Massumi book I had last time….

and maybe when we’ve decided both texts Jeroen could do some printing for us?..

Andres

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The next meeting of the deleuze/guatarri reading group will be on tuesday the 26th may at 7pm, PremArts gallery, 34 Oppelner strasse, U-bahn Schlesisches tor.

We will be reading two texts. The first is Deleuze’s very short postscript to Foucault’s book ‘the societies of control’ available here - http://www.n5m.org/n5m2/media/texts/deleuze.htm
The second is reading is the first two chapters from Deleuze/Guattari’s book ‘what is philosophy’ - 1. What is a concept? and 2. the plane of immanence (perhaps if that is too long just chapter 1 will do) you can read it here - http://books.google.de/books?id=gwVF7FpvsU8C&printsec=frontcover

I look forwards to seeing you there, please pass this on to anyone you think would be interested. The meetings will be every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, I will send out the poster tomorrow if anybody wants to print some and put them up in appropriate places.

Andres

DELEUZE-GUATTARI BERLIN

Andres Saenz De Sicilia
lädt alle Interessierten zum Deleuze-Guattari Leseabend.
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