#nomad science

[the-former-anarcho-animeism]

The search for laws consists in extracting constants, even if those constants are only relations between variables (equations). An invariable form for variables, a variable matter of the invariant: such is the foundation of the hylomorphic schema [imperial science]. But for the dispars as an element of the nomad science, the relevant distinction is material-forces rather than matter-form. Here, it is not a question of extracting constants from variables but of placing variables themselves in a state of continuous variation. If there are still equations, they are adequations, inequations, differential equations irreducible to the algebraic form and inseparable from a sensible intuition of variation. They seize or determine singularities in the matter, instead of constituting a general form. They effect individuations through events, not through the 'object' as a compound of matter and form; vague essences are nothing other than haecceities. In all these respects, there is an opposition between the logos and the nomas, the law and the nomas, prompting the comment that the law still 'savors of morality'.

Deleuze and Guattari - Nomadology (paragraph breaks mine)

[the-former-anarcho-animeism]

If the State always finds it necessary to repress the nomad and minor sciences, if it opposes vague essences and the operative geometry of the trait, it does so not because the content of these sciences is inexact or imperfect, or because of their magic or initiatory character, but because they imply a division of labor opposed to that of the State. The difference is not extrinsic: the way in which a science, or a conception of science, participates in the organization of the social field, and in particular induces a division of labor, is part of that science itself. Royal science is inseparable from a hylomorphic model implying both a form that organizes matter and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this scheme derives less from technology or life than from a society divided into governors and governed, and later into intellectuals and manual laborers. What characterizes it is that all matter is assigned to content, while all form passes into expression. It seems that nomad science is more immediately in tune with the connection between content and expression in themselves, each of these two terms encompassing both form and matter. Thus matter in nomad science is never prepared and, therefore, homogenized matter, but is essentially laden with singularities (which constitute a form of content). And neither is expression formal; it is inseparable from pertinent traits (which constitute a matter of expression. We can get a preliminary idea of this situation by recalling the most general characteristic of nomad art, in which a dynamic connection between support and ornament replaces the matter-form dialectic. From the point of view of nomad science, which presents itself as an art as much as a technique, the division of labor fully exists, but does not imply the form-matter duality. Rather, it follows the connections between singularities of matter and traits of expression, and lodges on the level of these connections, natural or forced.

Deleuze and Guattari - Nomadology (paragraph breaks mine)

[the-former-anarcho-animeism]

There are always periods when the State-as-organism has problems with its own collective bodies, when these bodies, claiming certain privileges, are forced in spite of themselves to open onto something that exceeds them, a short revolutionary instant, an experimental surge. A confused situation: each time it occurs, it is necessary to analyze tendencies and poles, the nature of the movements.

Deleuze and Guattari - Nomadology

[the-former-anarcho-animeism]

We are told that rhythm has nothing to do with the movement of waves, but rather that it designates 'form' in general, and more specifically the form of a 'measured, cadenced' movement. However, rhythm is never the same as measure...There is indeed such a thing as measured, cadenced rhythm, relating to the coursing of a river between its banks or to the form of a striated space; but there is also a rhythm without measure, which relates to the upswell of a flow, in other words, to the manner in which a fluid occupies a smooth space.

Deleuze and Guattari - Nomadology

[aspbergguerre]

I look at an academic, and I see something I want to kill.