Notes from reading of Deleuze and Guattari's, November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics:- "Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak, it listens and waits."
- The language of a bee - a bee can communicate what it has seen, but not what has been communicated to it. Do bees have language?
- Incorporeal Transformation - definition of incorporeal: without the nature of a body or substance
- The statement of, "You are no longer a child," is an example of incorporeal transformation, it is instantaneous and occurs with immediacy
- Saying, "I love you" is noncorporeal
- Communing with christ = spiritual bodies = no less "real" for being spiritual
- Example of incorporeal transformation: plane hijacking - the plane-body into the prison-body and the passengers into hostages
- "I swear." has a different meaning in court, to a friend, to an enemy, to a lover
- Order-word = language limits potential?
- "Language gives life orders and as a result humans only transmit what has been communicated to them." (Parr, 193) - The Deleuze Dictionary
- "Redundancy of the order-word is its most pertinent trait" (Parr, 193)
- Order-words transform bodies
- The order-words of a judge, his sentence, transforms the accused into a convict
- Order-words are always dated - they occur only in the here and now?
- We believe that narrative consists not in communicating what one has seen but in transmitting what one has heard, what someone else said to you. Hearsay." (D&G, 76)
- "The order-word itself is the redundancy of the act and statement." (D&G, 79)
- "Every order-word, even a father's to his son, carries a little death sentence - a Judgement, as Kafka put it." (D&G, 76)
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