Posts Tagged ‘horizon’

Fragments #4

May 22, 2010

Deleuze in A Thousand Plateaus talks of smooth and striated space, this corresponds to the nomadic and the State, the haptic and the optical.

Smooth and striated space are not distinct, they form out of and flow into one another.

He talks of the Horizon as follows: “The desert, sky or sea, the Ocean, the Unlimited [all forms of smooth space], first plays the role of an encompassing element, and tends to become a Horizon: the earth is thus surrounded, globalised, “grounded” by this element, which holds it in immobile equilibrium and makes Form possible . Then to the extent that the encompassing element itself appears at the centre of the earth, it assumes a second role, that of casting into the loathsome deep, the abode of the dead, anything smooth or nonmeasured that may have remained.”

New Horizons. Is this the State striating the space of illness, madness, recovery? Of measuring it. Of course if we take this analogy further then we have to assume new smooth spaces will come of it.

Is above Deleuzian accelerationism?