Chaosophy - autonomous learning

This idea of assemblage is fundamental for understanding the
singularity of the Deleuze-Guattari mode of writing. Deleuze
explained this to his Japanese translator Kuniichi Uno: "What is
enunciated does not refer to a subject. There is no enunciating
subject, only assemblages. This means that, in any assemblage,
there are "processes of subjectification" which will assign various
subjects, some as images and others as signs."13 It is with Uno, a
former student turned friend, that Deleuze would open up most
explicitly about the specificity of their joint work. He presents
Guattari as a group "star" and offers a beautiful metaphor to
express the nature of their bond, that of the sea sinking on a hillside:
"Felix could be compared to a sea outwardly in constant
movement, with continuous flashes of light. He jumps from one
activity to another, he sleeps little, he travels, and he never stops.
He never pauses. He moves at extraordinary speeds. As to me, I
would be rather like a hill: I move very little, am unable to carry
out two projects at once, my ideas are idees fixes and the few movements
which I do have are internal ... Together, Felix and I would
have made a good Sumo wrestler. "14
Deleuze and Guattari's different personalities induced two
rhythms of temporality, a sort of two-stroke engine: "We never had
the same rhythm. Felix reproached me for not reacting to the letters
he sent to me: it's simply that I was not in step at the time. I was
only capable of making something out of them later, one or two
months afterwards, when Felix already had moved somewhere
else."15 On the other hand, in their wrestling-match work sessions,
each challenged the other to go as far as he could until they both
had totally exhausted their strength or until the debated and disputed
concept could take-off, leaving its shell behind and gaining its
independence not through a work of standardization, but through
proliferation, dissemination: "In my opinion, Felix had true flashes,
while I was a kind of lightning conductor, I hid in the ground.
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