For Deleuze, as for Foucault and Lyotard, the activity of political reflection must have as a primary goal the freeing of an individual (be that individual a person, a group, or a practice) for new practices, practices that change, undermine, or abandon the power relationships that keep old practices in place. Foucault addresses the same concern in his description of philosophical “curiosity”:
"...not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself… There is always something ludicrous in philosophical discourse when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it, or when it works up a case against them in the language of naive positivity. But it is entitled to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it." (Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure)
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06/11/16 - Picked up at Gepps Cross Market, which used to take place on the drive-in cinema site. All closed down now, to feed the insatiable housing beast. Another loss for people who like to browse random shite spread out on a tarpaulin.
Also, another record that's barely worth a dollar.
There I was, running up the foreshore, and....FUUUCCCKKK! #brownsnake
Greeted by the very picture of pathetic. Poor Herbie.
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Herbie doesn't like the dog wash...
29/10/16 - Taken at On The Run, Largs Bay. Herbie hated a bath.
His front half was a kind of very dark brindle, which would only be evident for a week or so, post-wash.
Port Adelaide
New nose hair trimmer Woo-hoo! #middle-age
28/10/16 - One of the most irksome things about getting older is the way you sprout hair. Nose, eyebrows, ears. This nose hair trimmer is still knocking about the bathroom cabinet, largely unused.
Also, in a lot of the pics around this time, focus (or the lack of it, more precisely) doesn't seem to be something I'm particularly interested in.
I've been driving this car for years, but have only just noticed the sloth-face steering wheel. #pareidolia
Another choon.
What does 'Notifier task is pending' mean? Google doesn't seem to know.
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When they moved this instance to a larger server it somehow messed up the background task workers that pretty much do everything. So there is a huge backlog of jobs to be done, each with different priority, which is why any new post's notifier task is pending, and - as is my understanding - will be until the queue ahead of it gets completed.
The big downside of this is that, right now on friendica.world, none of the local-only communications work. You can post and reply publicly, but you can't post to just your friends or followers, nor are DMs working. The server admin recently commented on one of my posts that it should be caught up this weekend. Hopefully everything will be working correctly after that and our posts will no longer have the hourglass and "Notifier Task Pending" on them.
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Choon.
23/10/16 - This is a classy bit of soul, which I had bought after hearing the great Dr Bob Jones play it on his show. Turns out there's a mis-labelled version of this out there (which I found out to my cost). The one you want has the word Century scribbled out on the label presumably because they'd all been pressed with the wrong name on, or they found out there was another group with the same name, after the labels had been printed.
I really like writing on labels (WOL) of records I buy, even though it knocks value off. Seeing someone's name on there always makes me wonder who they were and what happened to them.
Just finished reading this. Punk, feminism, class & ethnicity. Fuck, #Spitboy were great.
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Smashed avo anyone?
23/10/16 - This was posted at the height of the avo scare, where young people's inability to afford a mortgage was attributed to their love of smashed avo on toast.
Avocados are one of those things that I buy and 'save' until their mouldy. I can't seem to break out of this behaviour pattern.
Maybe I'm
to blame for the ongoing rental crisis.
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in reply to pataphysician • •As such, experimentation is a sober and often tentative activity. One experiments by constructing practices that one is prepared to abandon if their effects are intolerable. The recognition of contingency that inhabits networks of practices brings in its wake another recognition: practices that seem liberating may, because of unexpected interactions with or developments of other practices, have consequences very different from those imagined by their initiators. There is no blueprint for practice. The ethical principles that help one to judge practice remain; but one can only experiment in their realization.
One such experimentation, discussed by Deleuze, is that of “becoming minor.” It is a concept best understood as engaging in a practice that, while within the social network of practices and thus not transgressing that network, occupies a place that disrupts dominant practices by showing creative possibilities within t... show more
As such, experimentation is a sober and often tentative activity. One experiments by constructing practices that one is prepared to abandon if their effects are intolerable. The recognition of contingency that inhabits networks of practices brings in its wake another recognition: practices that seem liberating may, because of unexpected interactions with or developments of other practices, have consequences very different from those imagined by their initiators. There is no blueprint for practice. The ethical principles that help one to judge practice remain; but one can only experiment in their realization.
One such experimentation, discussed by Deleuze, is that of “becoming minor.” It is a concept best understood as engaging in a practice that, while within the social network of practices and thus not transgressing that network, occupies a place that disrupts dominant practices by showing creative possibilities within those practices which would escape the political oppressions associated with them. To engage in a becoming-minor is to construct a line of flight within the social network by constructing—or following—one of the stems of the social rhizome that in the same gesture entangles dominant stems and is a positive possibility for practice. Regarding language, Deleuze and Guattari claim that “it is certainly not by using a minor language as a dialect, by regionalizing it or ghettoizing, that one becomes revolutionary; rather, by using a number of minority elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific, unforeseen, autonomous becoming.”
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