In violence: Three case studies against the stratum

Parallax

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 104-109

  O'Sullivan, Simon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750697581     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640050083837     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. This, I take it, is the important business of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, Brian Massumi (trans.) (London: Athlone, 1988)
2. and Jean-Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, Iain Hamilton Grant (trans.) (London: Athlone, 1993).
3. As Lyotard says elsewhere - in reference to the work of the psychoanalyst Anton Ehrenzweig (see 'Beyond Representation' in, The Lyotard Reader, Andrew Benjamin (trans. and ed.) (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988) - the danger with negative critique is that 'the thing criticised holds back and even consumes the one who criticises, as Sodom petrified Lot's wife', p.155. For Lyotard, as for myself, it is 'more important to assert what is in fact the case than to deny that things work as others claim or have claimed', p.155. This essentially affirmative task is, as Lyotard - and Ehrenzweig - remark, the 'artistic point of view', p.155.
4. Henri Bergson makes exactly the same point in Matter and Memory (New York: Zone Books, 1991). Here he is from the introduction: 'But through this complexity, which is due to the complexity of reality itself, we believe that the reader will find his way if he keeps a fast hold on the two principles which we have used as a clue throughout our own researches. The first is that in psychological analysis we must never forget the utilitarian character of our mental functions, which are essentially turned towards action. The second is that the habits formed in action find their way up to the sphere of speculation', p.16. Thought determines action. Action, in turn, determines thought. The mental and physical are not separate realms but exist on a continuum.
5. This translation is taken from Sangharakshita's The FWBO Puja Book: A Book of Buddhist Devotional Texts (Norwich: Windhorse, 1973), p.22.
6. Quoted by Stephen Bann, 'Three Images for Kristeva: From Bellini to Proust' in, parallax, vol. 4, no. 2, p.69.
7. Negotiations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), p.26.