VLVL II: "the indispensable (...) Deleuze & Guattari" (97)

[Dave Monroe]

See also ...

Donzelot, Jacques.  The Policing of Families.
   Trans. Robert Hurley.  Batimore, MD: Johns
   Hopkins UP, 1997 [1977].

"In The Policing of Families, Jacques Donzelot, a
student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an
account of public intervention in the regulation of
family affairs since the eighteenth century, showing
how this intervention effected radical changes in the
structure of what had traditionally been a private
domain. Treating the family as a focal point of
multiple social practices and discourses, Donzelot
examines the role of philanthropy, social work,
compulsory mass education, and psychiatry in the
control of family life and describes the
transformation of mothers into agents of the state."

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/2784.html

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> * Taking off from Kerouac's paranoia, Félix Guattari
> & Gilles "Windowjump" Deleuze do ask us:
> 
>   "Isn't it the fate of American literature to
> transcend borders, to let flow deterritorialized
> streams, yet then also always to dry them out again
> by forming fascizising, moralizing, puritanical and
> familialistic territorialities?"
> 
>   L'Anti-Oedipe [1972], chapter IV: own translation
> from page 358 of the German edition - 

[...]

> ... the last words make me think of the novel we're
> currently reading together. "The family as it is
> constituted in VINELAND is both literal and
> metaphoric", says Katherine Hayles whose distinction
> between 'kinship system' and 'snitch system' can be
> of further use here....

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