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Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 11 08:37:00 CST 2008


Sorry... Not!

Continuing reading that URL was also very relevant:

Another way of looking at delirium might begin with the word's etymology - from 
the Latin, de lira, meaning "out of the furrow." The word delirium can then 
refer, as the novelist and art critic William S. Wilson has pointed out, to a 
faulty plowing in which the plow pulls out of the furrow. Equally, in a literary 
context, where rational thought proceeds in a line furrowed with opposites, to 
be delirious can mean to go outside oppositional thinking. A plow pulls out of 
the furrow, where rooted plants are meant to grow in straight lines. That's one 
way of transitioning from striated to smooth space, in Deleuze's vocabulary. 
Outside ond over the furrow, untended vegetation is likely to be rhizomatic. And 
so is narrative when it resists the linearity of sentences on a page and tries 
to get outside the furrowed oppositions and rootedness of rational thought.
  -- http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/machinic
  The Medial Turn - Joseph Tabbi

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