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Making a BwO
The first objective of Deleuze’s
work on Artaud is to produce a BwO. Produce, being
the key word. The process, the production, the “making”
of the BwO is more important than the goal. In fact, Deleuze
and Guattari state in APT that the BwO can never be attained:
At any rate, you have one (or several). It's not so much that
it preexists or comes ready-made… you make one, you can't
desire without making one. And it awaits you; it is an inevitable
exercise or experimentation, already accomplished the moment
you undertake it, unaccomplished as long as you don't. It is
not at all a notion or a concept but a practice, a set of practices.
You never reach the Body without organs, you can't reach it,
you are forever attaining it, it is a limit (ATP 149-150).
PRODUCTION over
product. Don't forget that.
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