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On Tue, 17 May 1994, D. Ronan Hallowell wrote:
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> I've be trying to deal with G's "Machinic Heterogenesis" in _Rethinking
> Technololgies_
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> I've also glanced "The Smooth & the Striated" in MP.
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> I'm wondering if anyone can help explain what is meant by smoothing out
> for example in this quote:
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> "We must also surpass logic based on the principle of the excluded third
> term and on sufficient reason. Through smoothing out, a being beyond
> comes into play, a being-for-the-other, which makes an existing being
> take consitency outside of its strict delimitation in the here and now."
>
> Thanx,
> Ronan
>
By "logic based on the principle of the excluded third term" I believe
our man is referring to binary logic which refuses the so-called
"excluded middle" (very important to Crying of Lot 49). This, in its
simplest terms, is the logical insistence that A is either like B or not
like B. "Sort of" doesn't count--it destroys the efficiency of
sufficient reason, the apparent clarity of logical consistency. Guattari
seemingly is pointing to a "fuzzy logic" that would "smooth out" these
rigid distinctions and categories, and spill over into a becoming, a
being-for-the-other, a fuzzy grasp towards the other.
Just a stab.
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