RE: feminism

Since my views seem to have been inadvertantly snagged onto a side of an 
emergent -speedy- dialogue to which their intention was not really meant 
for, I feel compelled  to clarify...  Deleuze and Guattari are not 
anti-feminists, indeed their thought appears (to me) as highly relevant to 
contributing to feminist thought working in and unlocking issues such as 
subjectivity, ontology, sexuality... and I can only encourage feminists to 
take and use what they like.   But of the different feminisms, it does seem 
that Deleuze and Guattari's project of the machinic and revolutionary 
development of a non-oeipdal woman, is  more specifically attuned to an 
outside feminist thought, that is, a line of flight, a becoming within molar 
feminist thought, a molecular feminism of subject groups, of destratifying 
groups which are on the edges, detaching themselves from the molar feminism, 
setting things in motion.  Kathy Acker, and her regard for their works, is 
of cause exemplary in this regard.  One also thinks of  the rock-poetry of 
Patti Smith.  Subject groups breaking away from the subjugated groups, 
proliferating the heterogeneities, breaking the stratas to make more smooth 
fluid spaces, a rupturing to reanimate all the lines of flight.

Burroughs statement, "America is a matriarchy and it always has been..."  is 
actually very characteristic of his very perceptive and intuitive inquiry. 
 Why must patriarchy and matriarchy always be considered a dichotomy, where 
one always implies the exclusion or repression of the other.  Burroughs goes 
straight down inbetween the binarism, so that it's no longer a blockage or 
even a binarism to him, he tears open the inbetween.  Doesn't patriarchy not 
always invest a certain matriarchy within its schema?  Are these things 
really always inseparable opposites?  Don't little matriarchies run all 
through patriarchy?  America is but a gigantic patriarchal phallus, overrun 
with little micro matriarchies.

In a radio interview Kathy Acker remarks on Burrough's "sexism" She says 
"... I can't really blame [Burroughs] for his, um, distaste for women, 
because I often have a distaste for men, so [laugh] everyone to their own 
really!"  In Kathy Acker we suddenly witness something uncharacteristic, 
something of the outside, a destratified molecular milieu, that elicits a 
disjunction from any regime of judgement, an absence of punitiveness.

But still, Solanis doesn't make me laugh, and I'd rather be an feverish 
outsider, but everyone to their own really!

The song "French Tickler" on the new Sonic Youth CD, "A Thousand Leaves" is, 
according to the band, inspired by Gilles Deleuze, but then again, you might 
hear it and sigh a "huh?"

Robert

"nur sie wird das Licht als erste sehen" (only she will see the light first)

                              Einsturzende Neubauten