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NietzschesaccelerationistfragmentinDeleuzeand
GuattarisAntiOedipus
KarlMarx:Grundrisse:FragmentonMachinestranslatedbyMartinNicolaus,Penguin,1973
GillesDeleuzeandFlixGuattari:AntiOedipus.CapitalismandSchizophrenia,UniversityofMinnesotaPress,1983
QuotedinStrong,Tracy(1988).FriedrichNietzscheandthePoliticsofTransfiguration.Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress.p.211.
OriginalinTheWilltoPowernr.898(accessed18August2015)
CodeSurplusValueandtheAugmentedIntellect,post/latenightnotesdel10thMarch2014:
http://matteopasquinelli.com/codesurplusvalue/
(accessed23August2015).
ChristianKerslake
MarxismandMoneyinDeleuzeandGuattarisCapitalismandSchizofrenia
http://parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia22/parrhesia22_kerslake.pdf
But which is the revolutionary path? Is there one?To withdraw from the world market, as
Samir Amin advises Third World countries to do, in a curious revival
of the fascist "economic
solution"? Or might it be to go in the opposite direction? To go still further, that is, in the
movement of the market, of
decoding and deterritorialization?Forperhapstheflowsarenotyet
deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough,fromtheviewpointofatheoryandapracticeofa
highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to
"accelerate the process," as
Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen
anythingyet.6
DeleuzeGuattari:AntiOedipus.CapitalismandSchizophrenia,UniversityofMinnesotaPress,p.239
HeinrichKselitz
(18541918),musicianandactor,FriedrichNietzschesfriendwhomhenicknamedPeterGast".
ElisabethFrsterNietzsche
(18461935),Nietzschessisterwhowasoftencriticizedbyherbrother,byGastandbyotherNietzscheanfollowers/supporters.ShewasaNazi,
proArianandantiSemitewoman,responsibleofNietzschesphilosophymanipulation.Hitlerandallhisgeneralstafftookparttoherfuneralin
1935.
The same fragment with the same title is present in Colli and Montinaris
TheComplete
Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. It may be found in Part II Vol. VIII of the Italianeditionentitled
Frammenti Postumi: 18871888 together with other 371 fragments that Nietzsche collected ina
series provisionally entitled
The Will of Power that he will never publish. Here the fragment is
numbered(105)9[153].
In the original fragment Nietzsche used the verb beschleunigen derived from the
physics world
literary meaning to accelerate something facilitating its faster track. In the
English translation by Kaufmann in 19678 the verb has been rendered as hasten whereas
accelerate would have probably been more pertinent even in English, due to the fact that the
former deals with thenecessityto acceleratenotonlyinaphysicalway,whilethelatterindicates
an intrinsic, innate faster speed increase of a process. In the Italian translation the verb used is
again affrettare(hasten) instead of accelerare (accelerate), strengthening the above
mentioned difference between the two verbs: accelerare means the intrinsic and physical
increase of an event or of a process whereas affrettare shows an external provision of such
increase.
Actually the only significant commentator on Nietzsches fragment and Deleuzes
quotation is Pierre Klossowski9 in his
Nietzsche andtheViciousCircle(1969),aworkdedicated
to Gilles Deleuze, who highly appreciated this publication together with Foucault. The useful
fertility of Klossowski is dual, first on an exegetic side of his essay
Nietzsche and the Vicious
Circle
and second for his fructificative translations of Nietzsches works. Not only we may
WalterKaufmann(19211980)wasanAmericanphilosopherandNietzschesscholarwhotranslatedTheWilltoPower(RandomHouse,New
York,,1967withR.J.Hollingdale).
9
PierreKlossowski(19052001)wasaFrenchintellectualstronglyinfluencedbyNietzschesworks.Hewasanimportanttranslator,writer,
philosopher,painterandoneofthespiritualfatherofDeleuzeandGuattari.
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PierreKlossowski:
Nietzscheandtheviciouscircle
TheUniversityofChicagoPress,1997Chapter6Theviciouscircleasaselective
doctrinep.164.
To reach such a new type of man we should not obstruct this irreversible great process
but foster its inexorablyexpansiveaccelerationinamechanismwhichmayseem(withoutbeing)
contrary to the main aim of the strong of the future: the differentiation. The
leveling and the
social
homogenization perpetrated by the democratization of the industrial society are
responsible of mens shrinking. The strong and the leveled ones willthenactfororagainst
such inexorable law in a paradoxical overturning, as well as workers and capitalists fight in
favor or against the relentless law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, another big issue
DeleuzeandGuattariposedintheparagraphcalled
TheCivilizedCapitalistMachine
.
Wehavenowconcludedthisshortessaywhoseaimwastopreciselydescribethe
NietzscheansourceDeleuzeandGuattarihaddrawnfromintheirfamouspassageofthe
revolutionarypathinthebook
AntiOedipus
andtoproducetherightbibliographicreferences
totheaccelerationistfragmentinNietzschescomplexwork.Weareawaretohavejuststarted
achallengingworkonthedecodingofthedeepestmeaningoftheparagraph
TheCivilized
CapitalistMachine
andinparticularoftheaccelerationistpassageaboutthe
theoryandthe
practiceofdecodedanddeterritorializedflows.
ObsoleteCapitalism,August2015
Appendix
1.Lesfortsdelavenir
[
translatedbyPierreKlossowski,1969
]
Ce quen partie la necessit, en partie le hasard ont russi et l, soit les conditions
pralables la production dune espce
plus forte
: cest ce que dsormais nous pouvons
comprendre et
sciemment vouloir : nous pouvons produire ces conditions dans lesquelles
semblablelvationestpossible.
Jusqu prsent, l ducation navaitenvuequeleprofitdelasocit:
nonpas
leplus
grand possible profit delavenir,maiceluiprcisementdelasocitexistante.Onnevoulaitpou
elle que des instruments . Admis que la
richesse en forces
soit plus grande,une
soustraction
de forces
pourraitseconcevoir,dontlebutconsisteraitdansleprofit,nonplusdelasocit,mais
delavenir.
Semblable
tche serait poser, mesure que lon comprendrait en quel sens la forme
prsente de la socit se trouverait engage en une transformation piussante, jusquau jour o
elle ne pourrait plus exister pou ellemme :
mais rien quen tant que
moyen
aux mains dune
raceplusforte.
La mdiocrit croissante de ltre humain est prcisment la force qui nous pousse
songer au dressagedune
raceplusforte
:laquelletrouveraitjustementsonexcdentdans toutce
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PierreKlossowski
Nietzscheetlecerclevicieux
[MercuredeFrance,1969]
TranslatedfromGermanbyPierreKlossowski
Theoriginalfragment
Lesfortsdelavenir
byNietzscheispublishedbyGallimard:
uvresphilosophiquescompltesXIII
Fragmentsposthumes(Automne1887Mars1888)Parution:23101976
Trad.del'allemandpar
HenriAlexisBaatsch
et
PierreKlossowski
.
ditionde
GiorgioColli
et
MazzinoMontinari
Collection
uvresphilosophiquescompltes
(n13),Gallimard
2.Thestrongofthefuture
WM
n.898
[
translatedbyWalterKaufmann,1967
]
That which partly necessity, partly chance has achieved here and there, the conditions for the
production of a stronger type, we are now able tocomprehendandconsciouslywill:weareable
tocreatetheconditionsunderwhichsuchanelevationispossible.
Until now, "education" has had inviewtheneedsofsociety:notthepossibleneedsofthe future,
but the needs of the society of the day. One desired to produce "tools" for it. Assuming the
wealth offorceweregreater,onecouldimagine forcesbeingsubtracted,nottoservetheneedsof
societybutsomefutureneed.
Such a task would have to be posed the more it was grasped to what extent the contemporary
form of society was being sopowerfullytransformedthatatsomefuturetimeitwouldbeunable
toexistforitsownsakealone,butonlyasatoolinthehandsofastrongerrace.
The increasing dwarfing of man ispreciselythedrivingforcethatbringstomindthebreedingof
a stronger racea race that would be excessive precisely where the dwarfed species was weak
and growing weaker (in will, responsibility, selfassurance, ability to posit goals for oneself ).
The means would be thosehistoryteaches:isolationthroughinterestsinpreservationthatarethe
reverse of those which are average today habituation to reverse evaluations distance as a
pathos a free conscience in those things that today are most undervalued and prohibited. The
homogenizing of European man is the great process that cannot be obstructed: one should even
hasten it. The necessity to create a gulf, distance, order of rank, is given
eo ipsonot the
necessity to retard the process. As soon as itisestablished,thishomogenizingspeciesreguiresa
justification: it lies in serving a higher sovereign species that stands upon the former and can
raise itself to its task only by doing this. Not merelyamasterracewhosesoletaskistorule,but
a race with its own sphere of life, with an excess of strength for beauty, bravery, culture,
manners to the highest peak of the spirit an affirming race that may grant itself every great
luxury strong enough to have no need of the tyranny of thevirtueimperative,richenoughto
have no need of thrift and pedantry, beyond good and evil a hothouse for strange and choice
plants.
FriedrichNietzscheTheWillofPower
TranslatedbyWalterKaufmannandR.J.Hollingdale
EditedbyWalterKaufmann(Copyright,1967)
RandomHouse,NewYork,1967
orVintageBooksEdition(September1968)
3.DieStarkenderZukunft.9[153](105)NachgelasseneFragmente18851889
Was theils die Noth, theils der Zufall hier und da erreicht hat, die Bedingungen zur
Hervorbringung einer strkeren Art : dasknnenwirjetztbegreifenundwissentlichwollen:wir
knnendieBedingungenschaffen,unterdeneneinesolcheErhhungmglichist.
BisjetzthattedieErziehungdenNutzenderGesellschaft
10
imAuge:nichtdenmglichstenNutzenderZukunft,
sonderndenNutzendergeradebestehendenGesellschaft.
Werkzeuge fr sie wollte man. Gesetzt, der Reichthum anKraftwregrer,solieesichein
Abzug von Krften denken, dessen Ziel nicht demNutzenderGesellschaftglte, sonderneinem
zuknftigenNutzen,
Eine solche Aufgabewrezustellen,jemehrmanbegriffe,inwieferndiegegenwrtigeFormder
Gesellschaft in einer starten Verwandlung wre, um irgendwann einmal nicht mehr um ihrer
selber willen existiren zu knnen : sondern nur noch als Mittel in den Hnden einer strkeren
Rasse.
DiezunehmendeVerkleinerungdesMenschenistgeradedie
treibende Kraft, um an die Zchtung einer strkeren Rasse zu denken : welche gerade ihren
berschu darin htte, worin die verkleinerte Species schwach und schwcher wrde (Wille,
Verantwortlichkeit,Selbstgewiheit,Zielesichsetzenknnen).
Die Mittel wren die, welche die Geschichte lehrt : die Isolation durch umgekehrte
ErhaltungInteressen,alsdiedurchschnittlichenheutesinddieEinbunginumgekehrten
Werthschtzungen die Distanz als Pathos das freie Gewissen im heute Unterschtztesten und
Verbotensten.
Die Ausgleichung des europischen Menschen ist der groe Proze, der nicht zu hemmen ist :
mansollteihnnochbeschleunigen.
Die Notwendigkeit fr eine Kluftaufreiung,Distanz,Rangordnungistdamitgegeben:nichtdie
Notwendigkeit,jenenProzezuverlangsamen.
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Diese ausgeglichene Species bedarf, sobald sie erreicht ist, einer Rechtfertigung : sie liegt im
Dienste einer hheren souvernen Art,welcheaufihrstehtunderstaufihrsichzuihrerAufgabe
erhebenkann.
Nicht nur eine HerrenRasse, deren Aufgabe sich damit erschptfe, zu regieren : sondern ein
Rasse mit eigener Lebenssphre, mit einem bersch von Kraft fr Schnheit, Tapferkeit,
Kultur, Manier bis in's Geistigste eine bejahende Rasse, welche sich jeden groen Luxus
gnnen darf , stark genug, um die TyranneidesTugendImperativsnichtnthigzuhaben,reich
genug,umdieSparsamkeitundPedanterienichtnthigzuhaben,jenseitsvonGutundBseein
TreibhausfrsonderbareundausgesuchtePflanzen.
FriedrichNietzscheSmtlicheWerke
KritischeStudienausgabeBand12
DTVdeGruyter
NachgelasseneFragmente18851889
1.Teil:18851887
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