Synthesizing My Thoughts of Antonin Artaud & Short Reflections on 'Schizotechnics'
Toute l’écriture est de la cochonnerie. — Antonin Artaud, Le Pèse-Nerfs.
Artaud (1936) by Museo Tamayo
ON ANTONIN ARTAUD
All writing is a foul. Not suggestive rottenness, but rather peculiar, foul, flippant foulness. For Bataille, the essayist is an offender who should appease himself by going past the constraints of thought & language.
Life is navigated by unoriginal ideas, thought by composing and composing via text. We are more of an impact than cause, and we are sentenced to become a cause to understand a legitimate imaginative creation. Subsequently, the outside is an example of dynamic power that pushes the subject to seek after an idea: it is the divinely selected individual and simultaneously the censured.
Bataille calls the "mystical experience" the enthusiastic encounters in the isolation of the anchorite. It is the assignment of the individuals who experience these sensations empirically to communicate them with strategy and to catch even the linguistically unreachable. Hence, the idyllic pen is the most reasonable for the tremendous undertaking of communicating the ineffable, however, Artaud’s mission wishes to take the course of the immediate material to show the proof of the Third World reality, which is by all accounts, paradoxically, the most unapparent of all.
Artaud is an individual who has the same old thing to say, yet rather 1,000 things to portray. He will more often than not consider himself a simulacrum of Walter Benjamin, a simulacrum of a simulacrum, which embraces its progressive errand by meticulously gathering various sections that wind up framing a totality. His strategy, therefore, is to rehash what has as of now been said with new methodologies, a thorough examination of an endless multiplicity of contemplations, to weave a rhizomatic web, to minimize them as essential pieces of a complete assemblage, 'to take different authors by the back and give them a child, thus creating a new monster', as Deleuze asserts, and open up new skylines of potential outcomes. He doesn’t accept creators however he sees it as fit, nor does he embrace them unyieldingly. His undertaking seems to me as the palimpsest to make potential ways of thinking out of them. Artaud’s subject is continually presented to the schizophrenic progression of outside powers- as each individual does, and commonly he has been brought somewhere around these powers, also the occasions when he has had allowed them to have their direction with him. All things considered, he seems to acknowledge the culpability as a writer and moreover, takes the judgment with the hazardous point of offering reparations himself.
ON SCHIZOTECHNICS
“We require just a little order to protect us from chaos. Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master.” — Deleuze & Guattari, What is Philosophy?
We should comprehend that 'schizo', in an absolutely schizoanalytic sense, is what speeds up the beat of the oblivious i.e., schizophrenia is akin to speed. The progressions of the desire, schizophrenically freed and self-restricted by the private enterprise, although progressive- exhausts the body as it withstands. Albeit, in the range from Anti-Oedipus (1972) to What is Philosophy? (1995) we note no little change regarding the ‘schizo’ i.e., a shift from pushing the speed, hence, an increase of the progressions towards the very desire to defeat the progressions of desire itself- freed and self-restricted by the capital almost to a racket for deceleration and homeostasis:
There is a weak spot in the Deleuzoguattarian anti-capitalist outline, and that is to declare the speed increase of the deterritorialisation of social subjectivity with next to almost no dominance of strategy. Along these lines, Schizotechnics is the administration, control and mastery of the instruments that are moreover important to liberate the very honesty of our bodies, and simultaneously, science is continually refreshing the quest for re-formulating the ideal methodologies for an upheaval.
To conclude, insurgency torments as the unsuspected virtuality, and Schizotechnics is one and the only main scaffold that fits for an emerging chance of transforming power into a demonstration.
-Sanjana Singh/19.11.2021