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I begin with a poem. It is by Tristan Tzara and is part of the Dada Manifesto on Feeble and Bitter Love:1
this is the song of a dadaist who had dada in his heart he tore his motor apart he had dada in his heart the elevator lugged a king he was a lumpy frail machine he cut his right arm to the bone sent it to the pope in rome that’s why later the elevator had no more dada in its heart eat your chocolate wash your brain dada dada gulp some rain
Is Whitehead Dada? you may ask. Is Deleuze Dada? And I will answer: Yes! In a certain sense they are, in that ‘functioning’ seems to be a very dubious thing; in the sense that the way we organize our thought is politically revealing (AO XIII); in the sense that to subject ourselves to any system in order to gain security or control is a way of suppressing life (N 143).2 In this sense, the protest against any kind of imperialist occupation of the ever-flowing multiplicity of Life may begin with the liberation from the hysteria of seeking function, organization, system, subjection and control (N 32) — that is what dada was all about.
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Cf. T. Tara, Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (London: Calder, 1981).
Cf. C. Keller and A. Daniell (eds), Difference and Process. Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002).
Cf. A. Badiou, ‘Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque’, in C. V. Boundas and D. Olkowski (eds), Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 51–69.
For the more ‘classical’ view of Whitehead, see E. Kraus, The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead’s Process and Reality (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998).
See D. W. Smith, ‘Deleuze’s Theory of Sensation. Overcoming the Kantian Duality’, in P. Patton (ed.), Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 30–1.
Cf. C. Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of the Becoming (New York: Routledge, 2003).
See J. Derrida, ‘Chora’, in: J. Kipnis (ed.), Choral Works: A Collaboration Between Peter Eisenman and Jacques Derrida (New York: np, 1993).
See J. Bradley, ‘Transcendentalism and Speculative Realism in Whitehead’, in Process Studies 23(3) (1994): 155–91.
See T. May, ‘Difference and Unity in Gilles Deleuze’, in C. V. Boundas and D. Olkowski (eds), Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy (New York: Routlege, 1994), pp. 38–9.
See W. Garland, ‘The Ultimacy of Creativity’, in L. Ford and G. L. Kline (eds), Explorations in Whitehead’s Philosophy (New York: Fordham University Press, 1983), pp. 212–38.
See R. Faber, ‘De-Ontologizing God: Levinas, Deleuze and Whitehead’, in C. Keller and A. Daniell (eds), Difference and Process. Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 209–34.
See R. Faber, ‘“The Infinite Movement of Evanescence” — The Pythagorean Puzzle in Plato, Deleuze, and Whitehead’, in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 21(1) (2000): 171–99.
See M. Hardt, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (Minnesota: Minnesota University Press, 1995).
See R. Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 62–3.
See R. Faber, ‘Whitehead at Infinite Speed: Deconstructing System as Event’, in C. Helmer, M. Suchocki, and J. Quiring (eds)., Schleiermacher and White-head: Open Systems in Dialogue (Berlin: de Gruyter 2004), pp. 39–72.
See A. Badiou, Deleuze: Clamor od Being (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 9–18.
R. Bogue, ‘The Betrayal of God’, in: M. Bryden (ed.), Deleuze and Religion (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 9–29.
See St. Best and D. Keller, Postnodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (New York: Guilford Press, 1991), pp. 85–104.
See T. Lorain, Irigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy (New York: Cornell Univesity Press, 1999).
See R. Faber, Gott als Poet der Welt: Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie, second edition (Darmstadt: WBG, 2004).
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Faber, R. (2009). ‘O bitches of impossibility!’ Programmatic Dysfunction in the Chaosmos of Deleuze and Whitehead. In: Robinson, K. (eds) Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230280731_12
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