ABSTRACT MACHINE that operates on strata: enveloped
(total set of unformed materials)
ABSTRACT MACHINE on Plane of Consistency: free, intensificatory
BWO ON THE PLANE OF CONSISTENCY - ABSTRACT MACHINES WITH TERRITORIALIZING AND DETERRITORIALIZING FUNCTIONS WITHIN STRATA AND FIELD OF IMMANENCE
content and expression act as separate entities that make things out of formless masses within strata
DOUBLE ARTICULATION:
PHYSIOCHEMICAL:
Double articulation takes place within each stratum. The differences in strata lie in the differences of double articulation (content/ expression, molar/molecular, territorializing/deterritorializing).
The physiochemical strata consists of a process that is repeated. It is extremely limited, no deterritorialization is possible, and only affected or changed by external forces. The expression is the molar form of molecular content - this relations defines the processes as ones of ORDER OF MAGNITUDE, or induction. EX: Crystal: Expression: Crystalline Form: molar-level version of the content of each indivi- vual molecule of that crystal The crystal will grow but only by repeated the same pattern.
The first articulation chooses or deducts metastable molecular or quasi-molecular units (substances) from unstable particle flows. It imposes a statistical order of connections and successions (forms. (EX: geological sedimentation) The second articulation establishes function, compact, and stable structures (forms) and then constructs the molar compounds in which these structures are actualized at the same time (substances). (EX: folding into sedimentary rock) Each articulation contains codes and territorialities, as well as forms and substances. The articulations vary by stratum, and can often intermingle or leak into other strata.
ORGANIC: Expression and Content are independent of each other, both at molar and molecular levels. More deterritorialization is possible. Referred to as having a linear structure. EX: DNA: DNA transducted and deterritori- alized through RNA and the rep- lication process, allowing cell to reproduce itself (transcrip- tion). This process allows for changes in coding, evolution. ANTHROPOMORPHIC: The form of content is alloplastic, meaning that it changes and molds. The expression is linguistic and uses symbols that can be influenced by the external world. Referred to as having a super-linear structure. In this strata, content and expression have greater independence. Deterritorialization is rapid and can produce the entire human range of linguistic, gestural, and emotional. Semiotic and pragmatic systems are assmblages that work particularly in this strata.
The strata are composed of milieus and codes, forms and substances. They work like blocks and planes such that they can organize themselves as plateaus, grids, interlocking, intermingling, passing through each other - all the while the milieus hop from one strata to another. The BWO thickens and is slowed down in the strata, releasing intensities, codes, and territorializes. It accumulates, coagulates, sedmients, or folds. Between two strata lies the interstratic phenomena (the surface of the strata) where transcodings, molecularizations/ molarizations occur. Rhythms are one example of these types of interstratic movements.
HJELMSLEV’S NET
FOUCAULT’S DOUBLE ARTICULATION
“‘Delinquency’ is hte form of expression in reciprocal presupposition with the form of content ‘prison’” (66). The form of content thus relates to the form of expression. The prison is a state of things, an architecture, a set of practices, and a formation of power. Delinquency reders not to a word but a set of ideas arising from a social field, or a regime of signs. They equally participate in the abstract machine, the diagramming, and the entrance into the machinic assemblage (67). The machinic assemblages coadapt the content and expression and operate at the intersection of the two. In Foucault’s prison, the machinic assemblage could be the trial - where segments of the prison coincide with segments of delinquency, eventually leading to the abstract machine of the panopticon.
RHIZOME PACK FORM RATS BURROWS Rhizomes assume different forms, constantly changing, and can be connected at any point with another (and has to be able to). They are open, connectable, detachable, reversible, constantly modified, and can be accessed at any point, in any order. “A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles� (7, TP).
ABSTRACT MACHINES
PLANES
THE PURE PLANE OF IMMANENCE, UNIVOCALITY, COMPOSITION UPON WHICH UNFORMED ELEMENTS AND MATERIALS ARE ONLY DISTINGUISHED FORM ONE ANOTHER BASED ON SPEED, A FIXED PLANE OF LIFE UPON WHICH EVERYTHING SLOWS DOWN OR ACCELERATES (STRATA). A SINGLE ABSTRACT ANIMAL FOR ALL THE ASSEMBLAGES. A PLANE OF CONSISTENCY FOR A VERTEBRATE TO BECOME AN OCTOPUS OR CUTTLEFISH... (255).
SONOROUS HOUSE
(P. 323, TP)
CHAOS IN BETWEEN MILIEUS REPLACED WITH RHYTHMS (RELEASING OF EXPRESSION)
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANIMALS
IT IS ONLY IN WAR, FAMINE, AND EPIDEMIC THAT PACKS PROLIFERATE AND DETERRITORIALIZE. NOMAD TRAVEL IN PACKS THE WAR MACHINE
A TERRITORY IS MADE OF DECODED FRAGMENTS, WHICH ARE BORROWED FROM MILIEUS BUT THEN ASSUME PROPERTIES. THE TERRITORY MAKES THE ASSEMBLAGE. ASSEMBLAGES CUT ACROSS STRATA, REGULATES RELATIONS BETWEEN STRATA, AS WELL AS REGULATES RELATIONS BETWEEN CONTENTS AND EXPRESSIONS (512, TP). ASSEMBLAGES ALSO CAN CUT THROUGH OTHERS AND OPEN THEM UP ONTO OTHER ASSEMBLAGES OR TO ABSTRACT MACHINES.
ON THE HORIZONTAL AXIS, THE ASSEMBLAGE CONTAINS CONTENT AND EXPRESSION. ON THE VERTICAL AXIS LIES THE ASSEMBLAGES’S TERRITORIAL SIDES (RETERRITORIALIZATION TO STABALIZE, DETERRITORIALIZATION TO CREATE LINES OF ESCAPE). KAFKA DIFFERENTIATES BOTH AXES AND MAKES THEM FUNCTION TOGETHER. HIS VARIOUS MACHINES (SHIP MACHINE, COURT MACHINE), REGIME OF SIGNS (DEATH SENTENCES, LAW, JUDGEMENTS), AND CONTINUOUS ACTS OF RETERRITORIALIZATION THAT TAKES LINES OF FLIGHT ARE EVIDENT IN THE K-FUNCTION, OR KAFKA MACHINE.
(plane of immanence)
“THE BWO HOWLS: ‘THEY’VE MADE ME AN ORGANISM! THEYVE WRONGFULLY FOLDED ME! THEY’VE STOLEN BY BODY!’” (159). THE BODY GETS CAPTURED BY THE STRATA, WHERE IT TERRITORIALIZES. IT FINDS AN ESCAPE, A LINE OF FLIGHT, RECONSTRUCTION A NEW PLANE OF CONSISTENCY. “THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE: LODGE YOURSELF ON A STRATUM, EXPERIMENT WITH THE OPPORTUNITIES IT OFFERS, FIND AN ADVANTAGEOUS PLACE ON IT, FIND POTENTIAL MOVEMENTS OF DETERRITORIALIZATION, POSSIBLE LINES OF FLIGHT, EXPERIENCE THEM, PRODUCE FLOW CONJUNCTIONS HERE AND THERE, TRY OUT CONTUNUUMS OF INTENSITIES...” (161).
ALL MULTIPLICITIES ARE FLAT AND FILL ALL OF THEIR DIMENSIONS. THEY ARE DEFINED BY THE OUTSIDE, LINE OF FLIGHT, DETERRITORIALIZATION, OR MOLECULARIZATION BY WHICH THEY CHANGE IN NATURE AND CONNECT WITH OTHER MULTIPLICITIES. THE PACK IS A TYPE OF MULTIPLICITY, CONSTITUTED BY A LINE OF FLIGHT OR OF DETERRITORIALIZATION.
KAKFA’S ARCHITECTURAL STATES CONCEPT
INFINITE
p. 74, Kafka
FINITE
WILLARD AND THE RATS Willard’s mom tells him to get rid of the rats in the house. After he wanted to keep one of the rats, his mom dies from an argument. He loses the house since his mom is dead. His only companions are now his rat, Ben, and Ben’s companion. The rats multiple. Willard takes the rat pack, led by Ben, to the home of the bussinessman, who is put to a terrible death. Willard brings Ben and Ben’s companion to the office to keep him company. His fellow employees get scared and kill Ben’s companion, while Ben fortunately escapes. Ben is extremely angry with Willard. Willard takes a pause in his destiny, in his becoming-rat. He tries to spend more time among humans, and takes the liking of a rat-faced woman. He brings the woman over, ready to be conjugalized, reoedipalized, and reterritorialized. Ben appears in his home, extremely angry. Willard tries to drive him away but only the woman leaves. Ben lures him to the basement where the whole rat-pack kills Willard.
Becoming- animal not content to proceed by resemblance
Proliferation of series – rats, pack, brings a becoming-molecular Sinister choice of the facorite in the pack – an alliance, a diabolical pact Institution of an assblage, a war machine or criminal machine which will reach the point of self-destruction Circulation of impersonal affects, an alternate current that disrupts signifying projects as well as subjective feelings – nonhuman secuality Irresistible deter that forestalls attempts at reterr (no triangles!!)
GREGORY BATESON’S DEFINITION OF PLATEAU: CONTINUOUS REGIONS OF INTENSITY CONSTITUTED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY DO NOT ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE INTERRUPTED BY ANY EXTERNAL TERMINATION, ANY MORE THAN THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BUILD TOWARD A CLIMAX. (158)