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Gelukkige 30ste verjaardag @valbertr !!! Drie dikke dikke #kussen uit de US! We will celebrate goooood when I'm back :) thanks @birneylawrence for these awesome fake #lips

[stephaniekoziej]

Rhizomatic Rides

When reading Deleuze and Guattari’s “Thousand Plateaus”, I was thinking of ways to visualise their concept of the Rhizome, and this movie came to mind: “Centrifuge Brain Project"(2011) https://youtu.be/RVeHxUVkW4w.

In this short film a fictional professor is building amusementpark-rides for adults to study the influence on their brains. In many aspects these fictional rides seem to me very rhizomatic: they are amusing or pure desire, play and gaiety, but can also lead to death or nondesire; they are in constant flow or becoming, that’s why they are pleasurable; they present unpredictability because the cart can take any trail - so there is no tracing; they vertically shoot out of the machine - not horizontally; they are lines of flight or escape and de-territorialization; and like an actual rhizome they go against gravity. On 5′15″ the ‘professor’ literally says “the mistake is in nature, gravity is a mistake, we fight the forces that hold us down, and whole life is an effort to escape from reality”. A line of flight towards the outside plateau of the rhizome, is exactly such a “flight” from whatever laws or lines of segmentarity that are at work/active/in power in the inside plateau of the rhizome; with the law of gravity as a paradigm for the latter.

These rides also seem to turn the participants into bodies without organs. The velocity, centrifugation and/or hight disables their limbs temporarily. This produces play, gaiety and pure freedom on a plane of consistency of desire, through a strangling-without-cords. The ‘professor’ explains’: “cutting  all connection from the world you live in: communication, responsibility. WAIT!  Everything is on hold while you’re being centrifuged” (2′00″). Very much like a masochist body, the rider is tied down to the cart, through the velocity, but also trough the fact that (s)he can’t just leave. There is a pleasure in the disabling of the body, while it takes flight from the in-other-ways-strangling every day world - where the body is merely an organism, a phenomenon of sedimentation with functions and hierarchic organizations imposed on it. There is a freedom and a pleasure in losing control. One of the many multiplicities of the rider can now come out to play: very much connected to the young child in him/her.

Because if we think about it...In which other instances are 'adults' really 'allowed' to scream their lungs out? Maybe during an orgasm, confined to the bedroom, but the strangling organism of self, lover or neighbors may as well inhibit that. In an amusement park we get people - who usually walk neatly in line, who keep their voices down, and certainly never scream - who are 'allowed' to shamelessly shoot. And in Deleuze and Guattari's words: This mixed ride of fear and pleasure is the plane of constancy in which this body without organs can finally scream, out of orgasm-like flows of desire and joy.

#rhizome

#Rhizome deleuzeandguattari deleuze Thousandplateaus

#bodywithoutorgans

Stephanie Koziej

[stephaniekoziej]

Rhizomatic rides

When reading Deleuze and Guattari’s “Thousand Plateaus”, I was thinking of ways to visualise their concept of the Rhizome, and this movie came to mind: “Centrifuge Brain Project"(2011 https://youtu.be/RVeHxUVkW4w.

In this short film a fictional professor is building amusementpark-rides for adults to study the influence on their brains. In many aspects these fictional rides seem to me very rhizomatic: they are amusing or pure desire, play and gaiety, but can also lead to death or nondesire; they are in constant flow or becoming, that’s why they are pleasurable; they present unpredictability because the cart can take any trail - so there is no tracing; they vertically shoot out of the machine - not horizontally; they are lines of flight or escape and de-territorialization; and like an actual rhizome they go against gravity. On 5′15″ the ‘professor’ literally says "the mistake is in nature, gravity is a mistake, we fight the forces that hold us down, and whole life is an effort to escape from reality". A line of flight towards the outside plateau of the rhizome, is exactly such a “flight” from whatever laws or lines of segmentarity that are at work/active/in power in the inside plateau of the rhizome; with the law of gravity as a paradigm for the latter.

These rides also seem to turn the participants into bodies without organs. The velocity, centrifugation and/or hight disables their libs temporarily. This produces play, gaiety and pure freedom through a strangling-without-cords. The ‘professor’ explains’: “cutting  all connection from the world you live in: communication, responsibility. WAIT!  Everything is on hold while you're being centrifuged” (2′00″). Very much like a masochist body, the rider is tied down to the cart, through the velocity, but also trough the fact that (s)he can’t just leave. There is a pleasure in the disabling of the body, while it takes flight from the in-other-ways-strangling every day world. There is a freedom and a pleasure in losing control. One of the many multiplicities of the rider can now come out to play: the young child.