Stephen Zepke
Related: Carl Dreyer - Antonin Artaud - Gilles Deleuze
Believing in this World; Artaud - Deleuze - Dreyer
.... Artaud is very sensitive to peoples relation to him. Are they friends or enemies? Can they help or do they hurt? As if he is constantly testing all connections in the knowledge that it is only by making allies and so increasing his power, that the war can be won. It is only by enlisting others that his force can grow strong enough to persevere. Of course this is directly practical, he needs his friends to get him heroin, he needs to make friends to stop his electro-shock treatment. But there is also the sense in which his black body of nothingness, his throbbing flesh, requires connection, cannot but make connections. His body without organs is a living force of connection, living in the network it constructs in traversing the singularities named van Gogh, Heliogabalus, the Tarahumara's, Alfred Jarry, and although Artaud didn't know it, Gilles Deleuze and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Artaud, the anarchist crowned, the One of the multitude, Substance and its modes, a body without organs at once singular and complete but always changing, always connecting. --http://pages.akbild.ac.at/aesthetik/eszed/paper_02.html
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