doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

@CedarTea@mstdn.ca i asked a few of my other philosophically inclined friends and peers and one of them happened to have some engineering knowledge and gave me lots of information on the function of a turbocharger and how that relates to this deleuze section.

that, along with what you shared here with fluid dynamics really helped me actively visualize the terminology use and what deleuze means by it. i understand much more than i did prior. thank you!

1 and 3 have always been the most difficult for me to understand, on every rereading. the difference between smooth space and striated space makes enough sense to me but i've never felt like i *really* understood what was meant by a science of a "hydraulic model" of "vortical flows"

Deleuze and Guattari, in trying to show the existence of the "different kind of science" than the form of interiority, state science, that we're used to, explains the characteristics of this Other science as such:

"1. First of all, it uses a hydraulic model, rather than being a theory of solids treating fluids as a special case; ancient atomism is inseparable from flows, and flux is reality itself, or consistency.

2. The model in question is one of becoming and heterogeneity, as opposed to the stable, the eternal, the identical, the constant. It is a "paradox" to make becoming itself a model, and no longer a secondary characteristic, a copy; in the Timaeus, Plato raises this possibility, but only in order to exclude it and conjure it away in the name of royal science...

3. One no longer goes from the straight line to its parallels, in a lamellar or laminar flow, but from a curvilinear declination to the formation of spirals and vortices on an inclined plane: the greatest slope for the smallest angle. From turba to turbo: in other words, from bands or packs of atoms to the great vortical organizations. The model is a vortical one; it operates in an open space throughout which things-flows are distributed, rather than plotting out a closed space for linear and solid things. It is the difference between a smooth (vectorial, projective, or topological) space and a striated (metric) space: in the first case "space is occupied without being counted,"and in the second case "space is counted in order to be occupied."

4. Finally, the model is problematic, rather than theorematic: figures are considered only from the viewpoint of the affections that befall them: sections, ablations, adjunctions, projections. One does not go by specific differences from a genus to its species, or by deduction from a stable essence to the properties deriving from it, but rather from a problem to the accidents that condition and resolve it. This involves all kinds of deformations, transmutations, passages to the limit, operations in which each figure designates an "event" much more than an essence... Whereas the theorem belongs to the rational order, the problem is affective and is inseparable from the metamorphoses, generations, and creations within science itself. Despite what Gabriel Marcel may say, the problem is not an "obstacle"; it is the surpassing of the obstacle, a projection, in other words, a war machine."

@gay_ornithischians capital's first 3 chapters are some of the most important, because they're so dense. if i could recommend you anything it's that you push yourself through those chapters, knowing they'll be hard and that you can come back to reread them later, just so you can see more of the later chapters, because they're a far easier read and contain a lot of good stuff.

that being said i have definitely considered recording a 2-3 person reading group for Capital like little podcast episodes per chapter or section. if that ever manifests as more than just an idea in my head i'll definitely let you know

okay i caved and got bomb rush cyber funk

@adaoist kinda. she thinks "we should stop talking about 'identitarian issues' like transness and instead just talk about issues of things like housing, medicare for all." she says that "the identitarian stuff just divides people"

ana has discovered class reductionism and opens her arms wide

what is the social function that makes any one "belong" somewhere? is this social function universal or particular, from what point of view does it operate? what are the social mechanisms which keep this social function operating? what material necessities keep it operational?

https://anarch.cc/uploads/karl-marx/capital-vol-1.pdf
Chapter 15

"We now turn to the factory as a whole, and that in its most perfect form.

Dr. Ure, the Pindar of the automatic factory, describes it, on the one hand, as “Combined co-operation of many orders of workpeople, adult and young, in tending with assiduous skill, a system of productive machines, continuously impelled by a central power” (the prime mover); on the other hand, as “a vast automaton, composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert for the production of a common object, all of them being subordinate to a self-regulated moving force.”

These two descriptions are far from being identical. In one, the collective labourer, or social body of labour, appears as the dominant subject, and the mechanical automaton as the object; in the other, the automaton itself is the subject, and the workmen are merely conscious organs, coordinate with the unconscious organs of the automaton, and together with them, subordinated to the central moving-power. The first description is applicable to every possible employment of machinery on a large scale, the second is characteristic of its use by capital, and therefore of the modern factory system. Ure prefers therefore, to describe the central machine, from which the motion comes, not only as an automaton, but as an autocrat. “In these spacious halls the benignant power of steam summons around him his myriads of willing menials.”" -Karl Marx

@Aleph its almost funny that some of the heaviest proponents of the central party form adequately describe the problem with that form, but selectively apply it elsewhere (currently i'm thinking Bordiga in Spirit of Horsepower)

i drove so goddamn much im a real trucker now

holy shit we made it home a whole day ahead of schedule

i love it so much here

the land of Montana, the steppe kissing the mountains, is so beautiful. i hope to be able to see so much more of it than we were able to on this trip, but i feel so lucky to be able to see it at all

i have never seen anything like Devil's Tower in my entire life

Sioux Falls in South Dakota were really really cool

@ErikUden