It’s an *anti-Enlightenment* body, subverting the hierarchical vision of the organised body serving the mind, the power of reason. In this it recovers a much more ancient Biblical & shamanistic conception of the human as dis-organised, botched, desirous, self-subverting.
We can link it to yesterday @BBCFreeThinking. For it is Samson’s disorganised disruptive body of hair & eyes & unconstrained physical strength
This is why the antidote to Oedipus is the Prodigal Son (& his prodigal, rhizomic father), reduced to & emblazoned by his disorganised body, where he will share not an anticipated inheritance, but the food of pigs
Hence I use D&G on my work on .... childhood & ... lullabies 😊🐣
Agree so much. The rhizome is not a metaphor but a method
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I once did a Roman Jakobson-style (Baudelaire ‘Les Chats’) close reading of these lines with 3rd Yr Hons Students, to illustrate both the practice & John Milton’s breathtaking & frightening linguistic virtuosity—
'these redundant locks,
Robustious to no purpose clustering down'
@islamaissa Ah. The (in)famous debate about whether Samson was a suicide bomber. I remember @TheTLS pages on fire with it. Now 1 for my Son3 @GarethMDavis !