French Transcript

French Transcript

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无器官身体，这个在《反俄狄浦斯》中引入的概念，将在《千高原》中得到极大的发展，而德勒兹在此处展开了这一概念的诸多面向。

Le Corps sans Organes, un concept introduit dans l'Anti-Oedipe, sera considérablement développé dans Mille plateaux, et ici Deleuze développe de nombreux aspects de ce concept.

As with the previous session, the date provided by WebDeleuze indicates a gap between the two sessions, for example, with only a fleeting reference to Castaneda. Just as the plateau 6, on making oneself a body without organs in A Thousand Plateaus (e.g., pp. 161-162, 227) provides a fuller study of Castaneda, much of this session develops material in the same plateau. Deleuze is clear that caution is required in creating a body without organ, and he identifies a three-fold blockage of its functioning on different strata forcing the body without organs into biunivocal relations: first, the stratum of organization; second, the stratum of signification presupposed by the first stratum, that is, the angle of signifying ( signifiance ), a cut occurring within representation, a double articulation constituting the signifier. In contrast to limits within this structure, Deleuze points to linguistic perspectives proposed by Louis Hjelmslev regarding figures of expression in a free state. Finally, the third stratum, presupposed in the second one, corresponds to a point of subjectivation, variable for each individual, from which both the angle of signifying and the dominant real emerge, that is, within the organization machine. With reference to an Artaud text, Deleuze argues that the three strata form God's judgment, or the despotic system, and he examines different domains for this system's manifestation. He insists that one must actively engage in managing the body without organs, hence the importance of “making oneself” a body without organs, that is, a functioning, destratified body without organs, undoing the three strata within oneself: destroying organization, interpretation and subjectivation. Deleuze also signals two erroneous perspectives on such struggle, one maintaining that it's external (e.g. Marxists), others maintaining that it's within (e.g., religious advisor

s), whereas the struggle consists in institutions crystallizing within us in the three different manners, like a secretion of interpretation within and outside. Then, responding to student questions, Deleuze returns to the earlier point regarding the dominant real versus the masked real, and also how the body remains stratified and might escape strata. He suggests a list of occurrences on the body without organs, concluding this summary by describing the body without organs as an intensive matrix or desert as locus populated by intensive multiplicities and lines of deterritorialization.

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English Translation

……我们本可以从事一种“压平”的操作。我们从这样一个点出发：无论是一个酒鬼或吸毒者以完全私人方式所遭遇的事情，还是一支军队在征服行动中所遭遇的事情，还是一个在历史上可被定位的国家、各种社会形态所遭遇的事情——所有这一切，我们都要把它视作仿佛被铺展在一个等价平面之上。接着，从一个平面到另一个平面，便编织起种种关系与网络，使我们能更好地理解这些平面之间的差异；因此我们所采取的步骤，是把一切都放在同一个平面上来处理：一个正在……的人，一个出发去征服某物的游牧者……没有任何理由不把这些放在同一个屏幕上，但这是有目的的，因为那当然不是同一回事，而是要看在所有这一切之间能够编织出什么样的肌理。

… on se livrerait à une opération d’aplatissement. On part d’un point où ce qui arrive, d’une manière toute privée, à un alcoolique ou à un drogué ou ce qui arrive à une armée dans une opération de conquête, ou ce qui arrive à un état assignable historiquement, à des formations sociales, tout ça on va le considérer comme si c’était étalé sur un plan d’équivalence. D’un plan à l’autre se nouent ensuite des rapports, des réseaux, tels que l’on comprenne mieux les différences entre ces plans, donc on procède en traitant tout sur le même plan : un type en train de se, un nomade qui part à la conquête de quelque chose… Aucune raison de ne pas mettre ça sur le même écran, mais dans un but, car ce n’est certainement pas la même chose, mais voir quel tissu peut se nouer entre tout ça.

… one would be engaging in a flattening operation. We're starting from a point where what happens in a completely private way to an alcoholic or a drug user, or what happens to an army in an operation of conquest, or what happens to a historically assignable State, to social formations – we are going to consider all of that as if it were spread out on a plane of equivalence. From one plane to another, relations and networks are then woven, so that we better understand the difference between these planes. Thus, we can proceed by treating everything on the same plane: a guy in the process of [ missing phrase ], a nomad setting out to conquer something … No reason not to put that on the same screen, if there's a point to it – because it’s certainly not the same thing – but in order to see what fabric can be woven between all that.

为什么这与陈述的生产问题相关？

Pourquoi est-ce que c’est lié au problème de la production d’énoncés ?

Why is this linked to the problem of the production of statements?

上一次，我试图区分出在无器官身体上产生、并对无器官身体的运作构成抑制——甚至本就是为了抑制——的若干种层。我想由此重新出发。一切都仿佛表明：无器官身体一经给予，便被阻止运作。不过我们对于它运作的方式仍有一些想法；无器官身体可以是任何东西：可以是一个活生生的身体，可以是一个场所，可以是一片土地，随你怎样。无器官身体所指称的是一种用法。

La dernière fois, j’ai essayé de distinguer des espèces de strates qui se produisaient sur le corps sans organes et qui inhibaient, et qui même étaient faites pour inhiber, le fonctionnement du corps sans organes. Je voudrais repartir de là. Tout se passe comme si, le corps sans organes, une fois donné, il était empêché de fonctionner. On a quand même quelques idées sur la manière dont il fonctionne; le corps sans organes, ça peut être n’importe quoi : ça peut être un corps vivant, ça peut être un lieu, ça peut être une terre, tout ce que vous voulez. Le corps sans organes, ça désigne un usage.

Last time, I attempted to distinguish the kinds of strata which were produced on the body without organs and which inhibited, and which were even made to inhibit, the functioning of the body without organs. [1] I would like to start again from there. Everything happens as if the body without organs, once given, was prevented from functioning. All the same we have some ideas on how it functions. The body without organs can be anything: it can be a living body, it can be a place, it can be a land, anything you like. The body without organs designates a use.

无器官身体既被假定，它便总是遭受（抑制），正因如此它从未被给予。我所谓无器官身体，是在一种欲望的逻辑中人们必须抵达、或必须趋近的一种界限。是的，我们所能做的最好的事，就是趋近它，因为，也许，如果我们做得超出趋近或趋向，那么无器官身体就会翻转自身，向我们亮出它死亡的面孔。造就一个无器官身体需要极大的审慎；需要极大的审慎才不至于自我引爆，需要耐心。总之，既然存在一条需要审慎趋近的界限，那恰恰是因为，要趋近它，就必须炸开一些东西。