#nomadology — Public Fediverse posts

So, #nomadology fans, when we left off our inquiry in mid-November we were just getting into the question of the “nombre nombrant,” the “Numbering number,” and trying to get our heads around what Deleuze & Guattari meant us to understand by their use of the term.

Let’s get back to #nomadology tomorrow, shall we? Combing closely through D&G sounds like a *great* way to stay sane.

Off to Korea for a bit (brrrr). Will pick up #Nomadology and such on my return. 👊

Oh, say: could you give me a quick show of hands if you’ve followed this read-through of #Nomadology, either in whole or in part? I’m trying to get a sense of who’s on the other side of the screen – needn’t be more than a “👋,” thanks.

Good news for everyone who’s been following this unfolding of “Nomadology,” or trying to, who would prefer the convenience of a single long piece: I’ve now published Part I of Notes on “Nomadology” as a free post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-part-i-142961660

Feel free to share the link with friends, or anyone else you think might be interested!

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Finally! We return to our long slow consideration of #Nomadology! Welcome back.

Here we leave behind the question of noölogy — of royal or State thought, versus its nomad or minor others — and take up a somewhat different, more concrete set of concerns. Our arrival at this point is set off in the text thusly:

“Axiom 2: The war machine is the invention of the nomads (insofar as it is exterior to the State apparatus and distinct from the military institution)...

Currently collating the *several thousand words* of #Nomadology posts, as preparation for resuming our inquiry. This exegesis may well run to the length of the text itself.

Before I kick off #Nomadology for today, I just wanted to mention something that happened to me yesterday that both moved me and made me reconsider a decision.

I was doing a podcast interview with a guy who’d come down from Edinburgh — the conversation was great, but I’ll let you find out about it through sharing his link, when it goes live — and he said something that really made me think. He’d read “Lifehouse,” carefully, and said something to the effect of: this seems so obviously founded in

OK! We’re onto the next subdivision of #Nomadology, which appears thusly in the text:

“Problem 2: Is there a way to extricate thought from the State model?

Proposition 4: The exteriority of the war machine is attested to, finally, by noology.”

In the wake of our extended consideration of the entanglement of royal & nomad science, that first bit’s transparent enough. And at this point we’re sufficiently immersed in D&Gese that even “the exteriority of the war machine” reads straightforwardly.

I want to ask you-all a question, btw — both those of you who’ve been following our reading of “#Nomadology” from the beginning, as well as folks who have tuned out or otherwise dropped off along the way:

To what degree would it be useful to have this whole exploration worked up as a self-contained, stand-alone #zine or pamphlet? Is that something you’d dig?

Let me know, yeah? If there’s enough interest, I’ll gin this material up in a form you can slip in a rucksack or a back pocket. 👊

It’s been a whole two weeks. I’ve been to Berlin and back, sat out a cold even, but now I’m back on my bullshit! Fully fueled and ready to go! How about you? Ready to get back into some #Nomadology?

OK! We’re back into “#Nomadology,” w/further thoughts on the distinction between “royal” & “nomad” ways of knowing.

The discussion here is one of those passages where *either* D&G’s understanding of the sciences is so much subtler & so far exceeds my own that some of the specific analogies they are making remain obscure to me, *or* they are waving their hands & talking complete bollocks. But either way, it is still possible for me to retrieve sense from the argument, and that sense is valuable.

I got this down off the shelf because it’s relevant to one of the things I’m working on, and because – some 39 years after buying it and reading it for the first time – I feel like I’m finally in a position to understand and make use of it. Follow along with me, as I do a reasonably close reading of it here? It ought to be a fair amount of fun. #nomadology #deleuzeandguattari #deleuze #guattari