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And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Friday, December 14, 2012

um what?

«The command of language thus becomes the command itself. The
deterritorialization at the hands of language flows not from trainer
to pokémon, but from pokémon to trainer. As the trainer invokes the
deterritorialized subject, he or she, too, participates in the
linguistic community of the pokémon. The trainer does not so much have
to speak the language of the pokémon, for, "It is certainly not by
using a minor language as a dialect, by regionalizing or ghettoizing,
that one becomes revolutionary; rather by using a number of minority
elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific,
unforeseen, autonomous becoming" (D+G 106). The trainer only has to
employ the deterritorialized/deterritorializing refrain of the
pokémon's name to become something new. The invocation of the pokémon
brings about a combination of parts—the trainer's autonomy is
compromised through both the assemblage and the use of the alien
tongue. The logic of this deterritorialization is paralleled in the
way that the trainer uses the pokémon to achieve specific ends. The
trainer invokes one of several pokémon based on its particular
functions. A water pokémon is good against a fire pokémon, an insect
pokémon is good against a plant pokémon, a plant pokémon is good
against electric pokémon, etc.» --
http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/pikachu.html

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