Chaosophy - autonomous learning

discordant gestures; and finally, when he makes a record and then
burns it.
There are also scenes of schizo humor. At one moment he says:
"We could have stopped the train by putting the car in front." And
then there is this incredible scene when he locks up the two guys
who come into Cato's house by accident. He shoots twice and says:
"You think I got 'em I don't want to know." Another high point of
the film, in my opinion, is when, refering to the owner of a villa
whom he has shut up with a deaf person, he says: "They were lucky,
these two." At that point one realizes that, in fact, he remembers
every detail, that he is not at all confused.
Another very important theme is the loss of objects. It begins in
the closed off family circle, and then assumes a cosmic perspective
when some objects float toward the sky in a balloon, when he buries
other objects in the ground so that they can be found a few hundred
years later. When things begin to go badly for him, Kit looks at other
objects that he has kept in a suitcase and says to someone: "You can
take them." He keeps a children's book. At the end of the film, he
gives away his pencil, his pen, etc. It is like an expanding universe. It
goes in every direction, this really is a schizo thing. All the coordinates,
all the values explode all over the place. This starts with the fire
which is a kind of schizo jouissance as well, a desire for annihilation.
Now, let us take some examples in the domain I called the
suprapersonal level, in direct contact with the socius. The characters,
for example, make reflections of the kind: "You see, we've made
waves, the two of us." It is clear that what they are aiming at, then,
is the stupidity of society, the stupidity of the police. It is the whole
James Dean dimension, the whole paranoid dimension. He dumps
on us all the trash about bounty hunters, the Commies, the atomic
bomb ... Same thing when he reconstructs a camp, like one in
Vietnam, when he speaks in the cassette recorder: one must follow
the elders, etc. Completely reactionary '"
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