Chaosophy - autonomous learning

or to industry. And since this whole dynamic is at stake, it will
have to develop its own new models, its social groups, and various
agreed-upon expressions. We might ask whether the discourse of
the military, of politicians, of scientists isn't really a kind of antiproduction,
a labor of repression on the level of discourse, which
has as its goal to stop this labor of questioning. But the questioning
is unstoppable, it overflows boundaries, it reflects the real movement
of things.
Nietzsche, Artaud, Van Gogh. Roussel, Campana: what does mental
illness mean in these cases
Gilles Deleuze: Many things. Jaspers and more recently Laing
have said something very powerful about this question, even if
they haven't been well understood yet. In brief, they have maintained
that in this phenomenon crudely referred to as madness
there are two things: a breaking through, which is to say a sudden
light, a wall that is superseded; and then there's a rather different
dimension which could be called a collapse. So a brealcing
through, and a collapse. I'm reminded of a letter of Van Gogh.
"It's a question," he wrote, "of breaking through a wall." But
breaking through a wall is very, very difficult, and if it's done too
brutally then you crumble, you fall, you collapse. Van Gogh continued
by saying, "I am trying to breach the wall with a file and
with patience." So we have the "breakthrough" and possibly a collapse
as well. When Jaspers speaks of the schizophrenic process, he
stresses the coexistence of two elements: a kind of intrusion, the
arrival of something which is not even expressible, something
which is so formidable that it can only be spoken of with difficulty,
because it is something repressed in our societies-and therefore
it comes close to coinciding with (here's the second element) a
collapse. So we end up with the autistic schizophrenic, the kind