Here be endless streams of symbols given birth in waves. As the seahorse father issues forth his young - disseminating, in the process, the patterns of parenthood - so shear activity in language breaks the corollary of meaning; necessarily bolting into the wilderness of heterogeneous abstraction:

The act of writing is itself transgressive, ... in that the epistemological and linguistic foundations upon which the discrete disciplines are based are constantly put into question, and this is as true for the putatively scientific discourses of linguistics, anthropology, Marxism, or psychoanalysis as for the meditative and speculative discourses of philosophy or literature and criticism. ^[1]

In acting to signify the world through writing one is forced into participating in that world, and by definition, changing its fundamental textures. The mimesis of the amoeba annihilates the act of mimesis itself, for where was one unified whole, now belong at least three: two 'newly' formed amoeba and one 'historical' amoeba. Of course this assumes that the amoeba can be ascribed identity in the first place. Are not such assumptions prone to a Mu response?:

...Contrary to a deeply rooted belief, the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome with the world, there is an aparallel evolution of the book and the world; the book assures the deterritorialization of the world, but the world effects a reterritorialization of the book, which in turn deterritorializes itself in the world (if it is capable, if it can). ^[2]

The world is you, the act of being in the world reappropriates the world as being defined by you. Writing, blogging, is not mere intellectual masturbation. It is the theft of identity back from the selfish hands of ideology. In maintaining the world we destroy its boundaries. This heterogeneous-all, this 'other', is ours to destroy:

An assemblage, in its multiplicity, necessarily acts on semiotic flows, material flows and social flows, simultaneously (independently of any recapitulation that may be made of it in a scientific or theoretical corpus). There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the world) and a field of representation (the book) and a field of subjectivity (the author). ^[2]

Mini-Bibliography:

1 - 'Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard' by Julian Pefanis
2 - 'A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia' by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi


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