Acid Horizon Concepts in Focus: Tensors, Black Holes, and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Guattari (pre-episode content)
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Jul 18, 2020 In this pre-episode content, the hosts discuss their plans to explore Deleuze and Guattari's work on the unconscious and highlight key aspects such as its materiality and social connection. They also introduce upcoming seminar discussion with Taylor. The speakers present a typology of different unconsciouses and contrast systems of representation in Freudian, Jungian, and Laconian unconscious with Guattari's approach based on semiotic redundancy. They explore Deleuze and Guattari's concept of black holes as traps for subjectivity and discuss how subjectification can be repurposed for escape. They delve into the impact of German language on Kafka's world and explore tensors as a means of surpassing normative tendencies in language. They discuss the concept of delirium, its connection to social investment, and the idea of the social unconscious as a matrix of investments.
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Unconscious As Material Social Field
- The unconscious is fully material and spans the entire social field rather than only individual minds.
- It includes institutions, commodities, subjects, and production systems that together shape collective fantasies and desires.
Individual Fantasies Rooted In Collective Semiotics
- Individual fantasies derive from collective or group fantasies that circulate through semiotic and material networks.
- Systems of representation form via semiotic redundancy in material reality, not from transcendent signifiers like the phallus.
Field Of Desire And Two Investment Types
- The field of desire is channels and conduits created by proliferating statements that enable social investments.
- Those investments split into segregated (paranoid) and nomadic (schizophrenic) types shaping conformity or rupture.