/lit/ - Literature

>>12675885
Not him, but I think he was talking about a broader approach to reterritorialization in paranoia or at least some initial (or in-between acts) movement of deterritorialization that can be used in a different manner than in the "standard" catatonic body of the paranoiac. Maybe paranoia is then a misnomer, but there is a certain fear of words in psychosis that's well known, like those fearing curses or names like "he who shall not be named" etc. Deleuze talks about some of this in Logic of Sense (such as the stuff on the depth of the body or the parts about eating words). On some basic level it makes sense because a phrase can activate an assemblage, maybe not in the dramatic manner in which it is sometimes portrayed in movies about hypnotists (a hidden phrase triggering unquestioning loyalty in a hypnotized enemy or something similar), but it can cause distress, like when you describe rape to a rape victim or war to a soldier with PTSD. Point being that a certain fear can be justified, like when an alcoholic fears that a single drink can lead to a relapse binge. At that point you're fighting reterritorialization with reterritorialization which is not ideal, but can be warranted. I know this is far from the standard definition of paranoia, but it is still directed towards an external influence that doesn't strictly speaking exist (words can be powerless and easy to ignore just as well). Hope this makes sense.

Does Nick Land have any original thoughts?

>>11371904
> a bastardization of both Freud and Marx

That's the point, it was not just a creative take on the two, but also an attempt to go beyond them where they failed.

> to advertise for capitalism

This is as silly as it sounds. Capitalism doesn't require D&G to advertise it in order to succeed. The Maoist critiques of Social Democracy (in which they place D&G just as much), in which Clouscard seems to fit as well, miss the point of their abstractions entirely. Desire is just as much of a problem within capitalism as it is in any other possible organization, unless we transform humanity into something non-human entirely of course and even then it is the result of desire.