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‘of Form, or rathera becoming of Forces? The problem sa general suse in many directions retains willbe planted by anew seed that "ack modes, makes those modes communicate, undoes tempera Htemetinsteadof breaking witht Wema iy lnglive habriee «edo Schoenberg justas Nietzsche stidiong lve Breet, and for he {Sons wih the tame technical and musical intent We go (rom to an untempered, widened chromaticism, We do not need “mai we need to utn i loose We go rom assembled refrains ial, popuar, romantic ete] othe peat cosmic machined refai, Shor ofereation i already under way in heist type; therein sty, Deformations destined to harness a great force are aleady ‘nthe small-form refrain or rondo. Childhood scenes, children's he stating point 8 childikevefai, ut the child has wings ie hecomes cues. The Becoming child of he musician coW- ‘sa becoming-aerialofthe child, ina nondecomposable block. The ‘stan angel. or rather the becoming ofa cosmos. Crystal: the {cid of Mozart i inseparable fom a becoming-ntate of the orm Block with it Ite the extremely profound labor ded the est typeof reeai that creates the second type, oF the litle Fthe Cosmos In concerto, Schumann requires al the asm ‘the orchestra to make the cello wander the way sight fades ito unge or is extinguished. In Schumann, whole leafed labor at hin: narmoni, ané meloai, nas this sober ana smple result hulize he refains Producea detertonalizedefainastbefinal ‘sie release tin the Cosmos-thatismoreimportantthanbuild- ‘stem. Opening the assemblage onto cosmic oree. nthe pas sone tothe other, fom te assemblage of sounds tothe Machine lees sonorous, rom the becoming-hild of the musician to the ‘cosmic ofthe child, many dangers cropupblack hols closues, ‘ofthe finger and auditory hallucinations, Schumann's madness, vroegone had anol that pursues ou, a sound thal ansfiaes you “Ssalready present inthe other the cosmic Tore wasalready pes: Material te great refrain te lite reais. the peat mance “tle maneuver, Except we can never be sure we wil be sro ‘ore have system, ony lines and mavements Schumann, 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomaddtpgy: cg ‘The War Machine Nomad Chast Eni f Wd, Ala Fh Fou Cai [AXIOM 1. The war machines exterior tothe State apparats. Paovosiion I. Ths exterior fs tested 10m myles: ei ‘drama, and games Georges Dumézil in is env analyses of td European mytolo. fsahown ha plc sovereignty, or domination as two heads the fraser king andthe jossepies Rex an flamer a} and Brahman Romulus and Numa, Varuna and Mitte despet and he lesan (he ‘rand th oranzer Undoubtedly these wo poles stan oppo tiontcmby tenmasthecbsure andthe clear. the olent andthe calm the {i beware and he exledhe ond ane Stet ee But ner opposition sony relive te function saan ‘Resnaton, ay hough fey expressed a dson othe One or constitu inthemacvcs sovereign uniy--Avonce anita andcomplemerta. teeny to oe another and conseqsaly witout host. aking & tig Pag S17, Co mythology of confit a speciation on anyone level automatically calls forth ahomologousspecileation on another Thetwo together exhaust he Field othe function." They are the principal elements of State apparatus that proceeds by a One-Two, distbstes binary distinctions, tnd forms ‘ileuof terion. Iisa double articulation hat makesthe State appar Teil be noted that wari not contained within this apparatus Either ‘he Sate hast ts disposal vilence that snot channeled trough war tltherituses police officers ind jalersin place of wariors hasnoatmsand fo need of them, operates by immediate, magica capture “seizes and binds.” preventing al combat or the State acquires an army, but i's ay that presupposes jundcalinepation of war and the oraniztion of “imlitary function *AsTorthe war machine intel itscemstobe reduc inletothe State apparatus, tobe ouside its sovereignty and rit tts ‘comes rom elsewhere. nda the warrior gd som oppostin ta Varuna hnolessthan to Mira’ Hecan no more he reduced one or the othe than hecanconsituteathiedofheirkind, Ruther heise pure and immess rable multiplicity. he pack an ruption ofthe ephemeral andthe power ‘ofmetamoephosis He ties the Bond jst ashe trays the pact. Me Benes “frorto bear against sovereignty. accent agains gravity secrecy against the publi, a power (nussance) against sovereignty, a machine seus he ppuratus. He bears witness to another hind of justice, ae of ncompre hensbleereltyattimes, bata others oF unequaled pity aswel becausee tnties Bonds." He beats wines, ahove al 0 oer relhons with ‘women, with animals because he ses ll things in elations of becoming ‘ather than implementing binary distibutions between “sats” weit be Becoming-animal of the warrior Becoming-woman, which is Out. side dualities of terms as wel as correspondences between relations In ‘very respect, the war machine i of another species, another nature, nother origin than the State apparatus. ‘Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the State apparatusin the context ofthe theory of games. Let us ake chess and Go, from the standpoint of the game pieces, the relations between the Pieces and the space involved. Chess sa game of State, orf the court the “Emperor of China played it Chess pieces are coded they have an inter lure and intensi properties rom which thee movements, situations nd confrontations derive They have qualities night remains knight, &pawa a pawn, a bishop «bishop. Each slike a subject of the statement "endowed witha relative power and these relative powers combine in asub- Jt of enunciation, that is the chess player or the game's form of "nterioriy. Go pieces. in contrat are plete, disks, simple arithmetic ‘unis, and have only an anonymous, colective, oe tied person function eeeremaurs eth te minimum amber of pees a Goa question imumuabe outer eC asaoe ofthe man of ar his 9940 122: TREATISEOW NOMADOLOGY —THE WAR MACHINE Sri. necessarily appears in a nese frm: upd, deform adn legacy arpation sin Dum anaes ee ofthe warior inte Indo-European radon gant th a eis Drie enn the laws rginaigin the Sater esti ae fresion that compromises the datibuion ot mes aging a ee betrayal ofthe awsofwarasistuteg y he Siac tesa the magic wlence othe Sas atte tines withte States minayntnece Fo eee ‘ar machine nen speed and vreay ante aaa peedandd conan secre thatpcrantatheSie rene esa Soler isagret danger oicentivng theta eee ‘wo ole folic soe. and the dynamic neste hee {0 ols, mth the power af wr Dome es he ee ng tec isa Romolas Numa reaton ta tras Manoa ‘eth vanansandan alternation Staen honey eel mater btthereisaloarciatonmihan-etne ete Tergunis Supers an opus ‘ower confused with the lin of Sate domination everything on ed the war mathe can then be understood only trough interes of the negative, since nothing is left that remains outside the Sane ne {turned 10 is miliew of exerioiy the war machine is sees a be another species, of another nature of another origin, One wecld eae say that it is located between the to heads ofthe State, betwen the 199 articulations andthatit is necessary inordesto pass from onetothesthee But between” the two. in that instant, cvenephemersl. ony shakey Droclaims sown ireducibility The State has mr ur macinedftsonch ‘san only appropriate one intheform of military insaton onesher continually cause it problems This explains the mint Sate ho foward ther military institutions, in tht the military insta eke an exsinsic war machine. Kar von Clausewite has a general seoaey situation when he treats the flow of absolstewar aban lea tht Stats a Wally appropriate according to their political ects. and in selaaee hich they are more or less go! “condctor “Trapped between the tvo ples of palitcal sovereignty, the man of war seems outmoded, condemned, without future, reduced this ove for which he turns aginst himself The descendants of Hercules, ach ‘then Ajax have enough stenghlet to proclaim thei independence fas ‘Asamemon,a man of the old ite. But they ae poerlesswhenstcome Ulysses, man of thenascent modern tate the ist mane odors Stae.Anditis Ulysses who inhents Achilles arms, only toconven there ‘other uses, submitting them to the laws ofthe State—-not Aan uhoigcon, demned bythe goddess he defied and aginst whom he sinned” Novo ‘has portrayed the situation oft man af war at once seceoic sole ddemned, better than Kleist. In Fenheslea, Achilles altcady separa from his power: the war machinehas passed over othe Amarone a See, less woman-people whose justice, religion, nd loves a ovguniaed uniquely ina war mode, DescendantsotheScythians the Amazore prea {loth tk lightning, “between” the two States, the Greek andthe Trou ‘They seep away everything inher path Achilles is Brought Petes oe

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