Hi Daniel! Yes I find Deleuze's thought awfully inspiring with respect to
Tarot. As for Fool - i found a lot of correlations in LoS. But in general
-
D&G cartography sounds so promising: that's what was a topic of my paper
at the Semiotic meeting in Toronto in October.
Yes Fool creates a nomadic distribution - precisely because he belongs in
each consequent card. Here also significance of "zero" - look into
"Signifying nothing" by Brian Rotman. The overwhelmness of the stuff is
huge i agree - but so are implications. i cannot access your page here
Uni but will do it at home. You might want to access Tucson II site (ill
check address for you) where they published a bit of my stuff on Tarot (no
Deleuze yet).
Inna.
Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Daniel Haines wrote:
> Inna Runova Semetsky wrote:
> >
> > Fool is ultimate creativity - yet it grows out of nothing. On the Tarot
> > card Fool is usually displayed on the verge of the abyss - which contains
> > nothing yet is full of possibilities. Thus Fool is not equated with
> > chaos but rather with the ordering principle (despite being a fool). Fool
> > is nomad! I'm working on a paper relating Fool's adventures to nomadism.
> > inna
> >
>
> hi inna,
>
> this sounds really interesting... i'd love to hear more about this as
> i'm into a long exploration of d&g and tarot stuff. i don't know if
> you've been to my site
> @ http://www.tw2.com/staff/daniel/ ?? this is only a basic
> functionality at the moment, but will (eventually...) have a lot of text
> material by me and whatever else i can find.
>
> this text will try to work through (in a hopefully open way, from the
> bottom up, rather than from the top down) concepts like BwO, becoming,
> strata, rhizome, d-a, war machine, nomads, etc.
>
> i've been a bit daunted by the size of this task! but i've done quite a
> lot of working through my basic ideas already... including on the
> fool.
>
> i think you're quite right in seeing the fool not as "chaos" but as more
> of an ordering (- but not articulating) creative movement into chaos/the
> abyss. i see the card as centrally tied into metamorphosis and
> becoming: he moves into the unknown, towards limits, towards "chaos",
> but is not necessarily these things himself.
>
> the cards suggests the possibility of becoming, the possibilty of a
> radical upheaval, an influx of the unknown... of a rhizome flourishing
> suddenly where everything was stratified rigidly.... a line of flight...
> on the crowley deck fool, it shows (amongst many other symbols) a
> butterfly - very suggestive in a d&g context (metamorphosis,
> irreversible changes of nature). he is within a structured space, but
> the extremes of his body exceed it... the whole design of the card shows
> him inside an egg-like form...
>
> and yes, he is a nomad - more so than any of the other cards... it's
> especially interesting that the card itself has wandered around in the
> deck - from first to last, and sometimes as having no fixed position...
>
> anyway... enough of my rambling... i could go on about this forever!
>
> does any of this relate to/conflict with your own thinking?
> what deck are you using/what sources?
>
> dan h.
>
> --
> http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/chupacabras/48/
> http://www.tw2.com/staff/daniel/
>
> Ware ware Karate-do o shugyo surumonowa,
> Tsuneni bushido seishin o wasurezu,
> Wa to nin o motte nashi,
> Soshite tsutomereba kanarazu tasu.
>
> We who study Karate-do,
> Should never forget the spirit of the samurai,
> With peace, perseverance and hard work,
> We will reach our goal without failure.
>
>
>
Tarot. As for Fool - i found a lot of correlations in LoS. But in general
-
D&G cartography sounds so promising: that's what was a topic of my paper
at the Semiotic meeting in Toronto in October.
Yes Fool creates a nomadic distribution - precisely because he belongs in
each consequent card. Here also significance of "zero" - look into
"Signifying nothing" by Brian Rotman. The overwhelmness of the stuff is
huge i agree - but so are implications. i cannot access your page here
Uni but will do it at home. You might want to access Tucson II site (ill
check address for you) where they published a bit of my stuff on Tarot (no
Deleuze yet).
Inna.
Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Daniel Haines wrote:
> Inna Runova Semetsky wrote:
> >
> > Fool is ultimate creativity - yet it grows out of nothing. On the Tarot
> > card Fool is usually displayed on the verge of the abyss - which contains
> > nothing yet is full of possibilities. Thus Fool is not equated with
> > chaos but rather with the ordering principle (despite being a fool). Fool
> > is nomad! I'm working on a paper relating Fool's adventures to nomadism.
> > inna
> >
>
> hi inna,
>
> this sounds really interesting... i'd love to hear more about this as
> i'm into a long exploration of d&g and tarot stuff. i don't know if
> you've been to my site
> @ http://www.tw2.com/staff/daniel/ ?? this is only a basic
> functionality at the moment, but will (eventually...) have a lot of text
> material by me and whatever else i can find.
>
> this text will try to work through (in a hopefully open way, from the
> bottom up, rather than from the top down) concepts like BwO, becoming,
> strata, rhizome, d-a, war machine, nomads, etc.
>
> i've been a bit daunted by the size of this task! but i've done quite a
> lot of working through my basic ideas already... including on the
> fool.
>
> i think you're quite right in seeing the fool not as "chaos" but as more
> of an ordering (- but not articulating) creative movement into chaos/the
> abyss. i see the card as centrally tied into metamorphosis and
> becoming: he moves into the unknown, towards limits, towards "chaos",
> but is not necessarily these things himself.
>
> the cards suggests the possibility of becoming, the possibilty of a
> radical upheaval, an influx of the unknown... of a rhizome flourishing
> suddenly where everything was stratified rigidly.... a line of flight...
> on the crowley deck fool, it shows (amongst many other symbols) a
> butterfly - very suggestive in a d&g context (metamorphosis,
> irreversible changes of nature). he is within a structured space, but
> the extremes of his body exceed it... the whole design of the card shows
> him inside an egg-like form...
>
> and yes, he is a nomad - more so than any of the other cards... it's
> especially interesting that the card itself has wandered around in the
> deck - from first to last, and sometimes as having no fixed position...
>
> anyway... enough of my rambling... i could go on about this forever!
>
> does any of this relate to/conflict with your own thinking?
> what deck are you using/what sources?
>
> dan h.
>
> --
> http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/chupacabras/48/
> http://www.tw2.com/staff/daniel/
>
> Ware ware Karate-do o shugyo surumonowa,
> Tsuneni bushido seishin o wasurezu,
> Wa to nin o motte nashi,
> Soshite tsutomereba kanarazu tasu.
>
> We who study Karate-do,
> Should never forget the spirit of the samurai,
> With peace, perseverance and hard work,
> We will reach our goal without failure.
>
>
>