[D66] Stretching discourse beyond the limits of intelligibility

[A.O.]

"[...] What kind of depersonalized grammar would this be? It is found in 
schizo-language. In his translator’s introduction to Schizoanalytic 
Cartographies, Andrew Goffey warns Anglophone readers that the text’s 
language will strike them as baroque jargon sourced from psychoanalysis, 
philosophy, ecology and informatics.25 Goffey will insist, however, on 
working through this difficulty, treating it as central to Guattari’s 
project of stretching discourse beyond the limits of intelligibility, to 
the breakout points where words open onto deterritorialized planes of 
expression.
Guattarian micropolitics imagines orders of relationality that enable 
language to be seen as a new materialism. This takes us back to 
Foucault’s evocation of discourse “in its material reality as pronounced 
or written thing,” which is to say, a thing fraught with danger insofar 
as it harbors simmering “struggles, wounds, dominations, and 
subordinations.”26 For Guattari, this discursive materialism can result 
in such a state of war, but it can also be a revolutionary medium that 
redistributes enunciation, matter, and existence on a flat plane. In 
this context, discursive singularity anticipates Bruno Latour’s 
investigation into modes of existence as well as multiple tendencies 
within object-oriented ontology in which objects, including linguistic 
objects, literary objects, or texts that become the object of 
translation, are fully vested as existents."

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