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all right the pharat of raptures chapter 9 it’s named after 7,000 BC apparatus of capture from a thousand plateaus 7000 BC was when the Neolithic uh revolution occurred and technology and specifically agriculture uh was essentially establish so basically the chapter is what it means for the state to capture things how to capture territory uh which it relates to the war machine where nomadic and primitive societies are outside of the state and thus lead to lines of flight to the outside as we discussed in our last video deterritorialization uh leads to fragmentation where things cannot be glued back together or reunited uh you know all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again um I wonder what duus would think of physics Grand unified theory or the guts or The Theory of Everything the toe uh obviously the organs and guts need to be hacked in some sense anyways despite the um Humpty Dumpty reference we are of course outside of semiotics uh and semantics at this point engaged in of course Flatline uh constructs as Fisher noted we’re specifically dealing with diagrammatical here so lines of flate to the outside uh we’re not of course grammatology uh land even it’s funny in F new it because he admits to the similarities of deconstructionism with deterritorialization in terms of producing multiplicities but you know as he mentions Dara is defanged right he’s caught up in language he doesn’t have fangs so um the hegelian dialectic in like Jameson’s concept of the vanishing mediator uh no longer really prove uh pertinent remember the big difference between someone like negarestani and land their disput is in terms of embracing either aanan or hegelian system right where Hegel has uh through negation we have the thesis and antithesis brought together through synthesis that’s where the the mediator is and then once that occurs the mediator thus vanishes in uh in the way that Frederick Jameson talked about it and then of course to land we have uh obviously delus uh deterritorialization fragmentation body without organs and of course uh Emanuel Kant embracing the transcendental perspective so in either case uh in either system we really become other like we’re always changing and transforming in either system the question is whether we’re headed towards Unity or fragmented multiplicity remember Hegel goes back to a to a god the course of history where all is is kind of united in some sense or are we going towards fragmented multiplicity like to lose so the accelerationist model is of course the latter towards fragmentation again Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together again so the chapter begins with a quote by Martin eggh heider um the book uh it’s a play of course on heiger and um him hiding the body without organs right the book’s full of little puns like this I don’t know if I mentioned that before but it’s full of little puns like this but remember Lan’s uh criticism of heiger in the form of his analysis of traal right through poetry and how he doesn’t understand TRL uh related of course to rats and multiplicities as well as um heyer’s connection of course to Dara and deconstructionism as we mentioned before right we were going to hydar continue or sorry Dara continued hyder’s work and brought about the destruction or deconstructionism to free us um from a state of D sign and get back to a state of sign so cutees Essence uh is not cute is how the the chapter kind of starts it’s really spun by disaster and it disrupts desire right traditional forms of desire and it brings about new forms of Desire again it reprograms and infects us like a virus so the important thing about cuteness is that it’s not so much where the product is headed it’s not about the product it’s about the process that essentially gets us there right there’s no final product uh we are just continually engaged in this act of becoming other over and over again so the product is just various multitudes um and they’re ephemeral and they’re fleeting states of being where we’re constantly becoming other so it’s not about the the final product there is no final product it’s this process so it’s about the process of the body without organs and not the product it is not um confined as much to the actual as it is the virtual remember the virtual is the potentiality to become other uh cute is essentially the Conan numon uh they say it they they call it the thing and then parentheses cute itself so obviously we’re talking about the thing in itself in conent terms of the numon uh time comes out of the future again like the call of cthulu we’re being called to the numon from the future in an act of becoming other again so this is the transcendental uh time machine as we brought up numerous times with uh with land’s works so you can link this to spiraling temp plexities on the numogram in relation to Burrow’s cutup method as well right escaping this one God Universe accelerating us hyperbolically causing time dilation to occur so this time travel is the actualization of this virtual potentiality so it comes from the future right it’s calling to us from the future not the past cute is essentially alienation again the alien is the other The Outsider who is alienated remember as we discussed with um honas how the alien god is related to the transcendental and uh in his terms you know the nostic Christ where man is alienated and he is an alien uh in an alien land again we can relate it back to Exodus in gersam right I have been a Stranger in a Strange Land and again one becomes the stranger like Camu Albert cimu noted uh and also in his works the rebel right so this revolutionary Rebel uh in this Gnostic sense where we’re a Stranger in a Strange Land Amy doesn’t bring that up of course but it’s an important concept to consider when when thinking about the alien again we discussed this with Eric vogan uh and yakob tabz uh as well how that alien is related to The Outsider and thus the rebel um and again that’s related of course to Prometheus right Mark saw himself very much in a Promethean manner so and of course the Antichrist right rebelling against this false god um in a gnostic man but let’s get back to the book so with cuteness um we essentially cuteness we prove our uh Intimacy in an in dead Kawai objects and uh Commodities we pour all of this intimacy into these dead things like the these these products so in doing so we become more like the Commodities we acquire right and so this commoditization is kind of turning us into the Commodities themselves again the numon right bites us and through vampiric parasitism we turn into it and so that’s what’s going on here it’s turning us into it so it turns us into it through the intensification of machinic desires of course related back to the lose uh but again as addressed in anti-us to end this process abruptly right creates the artificial skitso that we typically see in mental institutions so cute is a transformative process it’s not to be understood in terms of power and control and it shouldn’t be be cut off abruptly uh we are always continually evolving towards this state of becoming so Amy and Maya discussed Conrad Loren um Conrad Loren is someone who we’ve brought up numerous times before uh we talked about him in terms of imprinting right on grag Geese similarly uh they bring up the concept of baby schema now baby schema is basically just the facial and bodily features of babies both human and animal um that are cute you know babies are cute they have those defining features about them like goslings are different than the adult geese they’re just they’re cute in some way and babies are different than adults they have the sense of roundness and cuteness about them so Loren criticized art that um you know kind of used it um these features in exaggerated forms uh in C Works basically trash again anime would fit this criteria with cute characteristics right and the cute characterizations it uses um you could think of uh Margaret ke’s work is simil her you know the work big eyes uh so Margaret ke’s work as simar using big eyes in these kind of childlike features but to Len right things like dolls that’s another good example for example do the exactly the same we’re using this baby schema to basically what sell products right since cute things based on baby schema are rather marketable they’re cute and they basically sell so cute is basically it’s also not really subtle uh and non-s subtle things are typically treated with disdain in you know in artworks and in the art community so Margaret kean’s work received uh similar criticism she doesn’t bring up Margaret Kean but it’s a good example and it received similar criticism people called it you know it’s formulaic it’s cliche and this though Amy does talk about it’s Kit right Ki T C kitch which is a prevailing element in post-modern late capitalism again as Frederick Jameson talked about so Amy and Maya criticize evolutionary psychologist like Loren since it focuses heavily on reprod Ive Fitness his model of course reproductive um survival that essentially guides Evolution and so we’re going to show how reproductive survival guiding Evolution isn’t necessarily the only thing so again Kawai culture right as we talked about of course is nonproductive and so this is why we’re bringing it up it Alters the concept of sex and reproduction itself so it me and my estate there is no proof of direct natural selection for specific behavior traits so in nature there’s right competition where various evolutionary strategies are at play and certain ones are selected therefore it’s it’s all about what the majority selects and what the majority selects is not always optimal that’s a mistake that people make like well this is the most optimal solution no it’s not it’s whatever the majority selects therefore the belief that a behavior trait is optimal through genetics is really mistaken it doesn’t have to be optimal through the sense of genetics this of course is taken from Richard dawkings work the selfish Gene and of course everyone knows Richard dawkings and who he is um and of course you know the term memetics or memes uh we get from dockings as well so genetic determinism is is is kind of good to reject in terms of behavior in this sense so we’re subject to various things outside of genes right our environment our our culture uh our sense of development Etc so this kind of nurture aspect can essentially override or at least influence natural ones so people like to make um nature nurture debate right and they try to debate is it more nature is it more nurture but both are at play here so evolution is not really um prescriptive uh it doesn’t adhere solely to biology alone but culture and social norms and economic systems all play a role here uh we could look at Women’s role as traditional care uh givers in the 20th centuries we brought up before and how that basically fell apart uh with the young girl and we were bringing up in the market sense and now women are a productive uh part of the workforce and so this this system that was supposed to ensure reproduction just went away it kind of died out it didn’t work so the plasticity towards sex allows us to meet certain ecological demands without having to wait a thousand years for evolution to kick in right it takes a very long time for evolution to kick in so the plasticity is meant to to allow for these uh us to meet these demands without having to wait that long so to delude this is split between Instinct and institutions right so again all of this is not it’s not predetermined it’s based on varing factors so behaviors don’t always exist because they are optimal for survival or you know even giving an advantage over others and that’s a great mistake that people tend to make so you know adaptivity is not solely genetic then it relies more on romatic connections it’s not predetermined to Bud from a seed uh like a root or something to form these branches on this root tree or root likee model where it’s all just genetically Instinct and it just does its thing rather it’s romatic it’s relying upon all these different connections and all these different multiplicities and things going on around it so even if things don’t made or reproduce it doesn’t mean there’s a sense of error occurring it’s like well you’re not reproducing uh your genes aren’t getting passed on there’s an error the error linked to Evolution often um is is is deals with it offers us untapped virtual potentialities so we see these things as errors but in fact they open up new doorways of potentiality so Evolution deals with variation after all right also looking to look at things like contraceptives or same-sex relationships or you know Friends with Benefits right where reproduction is not the goal but those all offer their own advantages so if someone tries to essentially you know shame you and this you see this argument come up where well this doesn’t result in reproduction again and trying to shame you for that it’s akin to the same shame or repression that we see in psychoanalytic forms right where it’s this top- down authoritarian Cathedral like system bearing down upon you which prevents you from engaging in your desires to become other or something different it’s a Similator in a lot of ways so the line between nature and culture has essentially become blurred um and like the chicken or the egg did cuteness as seen in the form of baby schema did that come first or did the adult reception to that sense of cuteness come first so this leads to a separate 15-page footnote um we can go into it as we said before you know cute is often outside of the accepted Aesthetics of serious art so basically cute was seen as stimuli for triggering affection in adults again uh all of this Isen is being linked to survival value I mean children do need to be care for uh cared for so the species can survive if all the children die there’s no real survival in some sense so the criticism then is that cute is just what babies look like it didn’t occur through natural selection what we call cute well that’s just that’s just how it is that’s how babies look so if something was not cute right it would mean it’s Extinction CU well it doesn’t adhere to this characteristic therefore it’s going to have a less likelihood of of surviving so obviously there are other characteristics besides cuteness that motivate caregiving uh so again we have phenotypes right these physical characteristics that come from our genotypes um but these don’t appear overnight right they just didn’t come out of the blue they didn’t come out of know they came from somewhere so if cuteness resulted in an increase in passing down genes it would be evolutionary signif uh it would be very significant in terms of evolution so the involuntary response to cuteness could be instinctual in some sense it’s not a learned response that can be behaviorally conditioned it’s instinctual again we uh chomsky’s case against BF Skinner right where not all things can be learned through behaviorism due to this sense of instinct so all animals have innate knowledge pre-programmed into them as we talked about with Loren in imprinting with gy lag geese that’s a good example uh baby turtles for example they don’t learn how to run towards water that’s instinctually embedded into them uh human babies in fact if if they’re near water or in water they’ll just instinctually kick their legs so again to Chomsky human beings have an innate ability to learn a language since he believes it uh instinctual to the species so there are select things we instinctually respond to not all things not all things there are set things we instinctually respond to as such a large part of our environment uh doesn’t really influence us we don’t instinctually respond to all things in our environment we respond to essential stimuli okay only essential stimuli so a releaser can elicit a response in a number of the same species so a social releaser can be used for Cooperative purposes so it’s a it’s a signant problem remember signant is signal intelligence so what you have to do in this in this releaser you deliver a signal or a sign right in order to communicate so you release a signal and it triggers a response in others these signals are adapted to the environment over time and are filtered to ensure no other stimuli in the environment besides the signal triggers a response right you have to remember when you’re in nature or you’re in an environment there’s tons of stimuli going on around you so it has to be a very specific signal that is immediately perceived and picked up on though no other stimuli in the environment besides the signal triggers a response so the signal must be differentiated right it has to be differentiated from what’s going on around it it must be different from all other stimuli around it and it’s this differentiation of the release mechanism which determines its Evolution as well as the object itself that receives the signal right so you’re differentiating the signal and then people have to be able to pick up and receive that differenti at signal so both the signal and the object receiving the signal evolve through this sense of differentiation and now you can kind of see where this we’re going with this right now we have the sense of differentiation involved in this evolutionary process so to Amy and my acuteness involves a circuit in which these signals and receivers coevolve in a positive feedback loop of differentiation so thus if cuteness becomes referred then the process will only accelerate one uh once uh conventionally coded it becomes a vector right a social vector and of course Vector gives it Direction so at that point cute essentially exits nature and enters history at that point because it’s guiding it’s it has a sense of direction in society so it enters history this is what they call uh oxytocin act act I’m sorry oxytocin accelerationism of cuteness selection remember oxytocin is a hormone produced in evolution which helps with like social bonding uh in reproduction in humans uh and also remember oxy as we discuss relates to Oxys remember the same oxy and oxy right and thus ties into cute culture this sense of ambivalence so cute is not confined to the human but it’s become inhuman as we mentioned before 2D anime Moy um girls are basically cuter than real 3D women at this point so we we’ve become more inhuman um baby kittens are considered more cute than human babies uh human beings of course have uh they mentioned have bred cats and dogs for Generations so perhaps that’s why we’re so captivated by their cuteness uh either way we’ve learned that cute cannot be confined solely to Nature or biology or genetics that’s really the main point they’re trying to make here or a sense of reproduction in some sense there is this cultural aspect going on here that is also linked to Evolution and and linked of course to differentiation as we brought up before with the releaser so denying culture um an a feminine acuteness on the basis of genetics or maybe uh biological propagation you’re not having sex you’re not reproducing or some some uh sense of optimization again it doesn’t always involve optimization um it so those criticisms don’t really hold water cute is thus a war machine and a virus it unlocks virtual potentialities culture and nature coincide so Daddy admin may want to put Barbie back in the box but cute is already everywhere as May uh Amy and Maya state only the future knows what cute has been doing to us again it’s calling to us from the future and turning us into it but what the numon wants from us is always mysterious Mystic and unknown right it’s transcendental it is outside uh any phenomenon or any sense of sense perception okay and from here the chapter pretty much ends uh we’re nearing the end of the chapter and they introduce the uh circuits of cific so there’s a couple different circuits here the first one where kind of cuteness um is found in nature as we as we talked about right that baby schema but it breaks away through cultural co-evolution just like we just talked about that’s basically the first circuit the second one involves Market forces that allow acuteness to kind of differentiate and Prevail over social cultural norms and human sexuality through differentiated forms of intensification and again we we discussed that previously and how it links up the sense of cuteness to economic uh Market values the third circuit is the database that’s what we discussed in our last video right all these differentiated um things going on in there that could be mixed and matched together to produce pluralities so we’re going beyond the confines of nature we’re going beyond the confines of culture and sex to get outside to new multitudes and alchemical uh monstrosities so capitalism acts as the search engine for this system itself opening us up to the outside so e girls te girls neats uh anons and otaku free them uh free themselves schizophrenically accelerating through the production consumption cycle as we brought up before and how those related how those are linked right they’re ambivalent production you can’t produce without consuming and vice versa so there could be a fourth circuit specifically for AI that they mentioned that’s that little circuit there uh and that may help unfold us further and while I really did enjoy this uh this book that’s where I kind of wanted to see more I was hoping to read more uh about that that AI circuit but you know again V2 don’t even really have bodies they’re very similar to to Anime in that sense and once technology can remove the need for human voice actors it will truly just be AI interactions at that point we brought up before in our one of our videos about Sora open AI videos uh making these inhuman movies uh removing the need for man through automation so cuteness in terms of AI is an interesting concept to consider um and definitely expand upon so as the circuit warms up cute accelerates onwards um they say cute doesn’t come until the last moment which it perpetually delays again it’s always calling to uh from the future but it’s delayed because it’s never complete right it’s always open and it’s always spiraling onward and that is the end of chapter nine and we’ll do chapter 10 as well because chapter 10 is very short so chapter 10 is no vanillas or cute happened uh it’s named after chapter 8 and a th000 plateaus which is 1874 three novellas or what happened uh the novellas are you know Henry James in a cage is one of the novels which basically deals with a woman who works as a telegrapher at the post office uh which is right into in with a grocery store so there’s like in this grocery store there’s a little post office where she works and so which her fiance Works in as well he works in the grocery store she works in the post office so the telegraph of course is symbolic of connecting people through longdistance Communications uh so she ends up basically decoding messages of two separate lovers that are communicating with each other uh the relationship between those lovers are in a state of becoming right they’re open to potentiality no one knows what’s going to happen with these two and she’s kind of following along um meanwhile her life with her fiance isn’t really open to potentials they’re kind of set in their ways right they’re in a state of being as opposed to a state of becoming her life is more mold right or confined to an identity as opposed to being molecular opening itself up to becoming so the two lovers through the telegraph uh open up her life right CU she’s following them along and so they kind of open up her her molar life to something more molecular uh through a line of escape to the outside the other novel uh Nolla I’m sorry is um the crackup by F Scott Fitzgerald uh which deals with same same concept basically opens up cracks or ruptures right the crack up opening up cracks or ruptures to the outside to get outside so we’re opening up lines of flight to the outside in an act of becoming other uh the story of the abyss and the spy glass by pet I cannot I cannot pronounce this name fento I don’t f i e u t i a x that’s a French name that I’m going to struggle pronouncing but that is another Nolla in here again but it brings up the same same concept it talks about the same concept and so chapter 10 like I said is the shortest um there’s no real footnotes and it’s only one page long so it’s just kind of the conclusion but basically cuteness it’s going to melt all of us leading us towards these delusion flows through smooth spaces they say cute is the perver Menon right so a combination of pervert and the numon uh closest to the numon so these perversities but makes sense too because remember perversities and desires aren’t to be repressed in the psychoanalytic sense it’s brought up an anti atopus they’re to be embraced and this act becoming other so it’s not cute isn’t um necessar it’s not cold dark it’s not serious it’s not right or left it’s they say it’s snuggly it’s soft and it’s inexpressible inexpressible because it’s linked to the numon cute is unseriousness uh severing the circuits of social reproduction to discover virtual connections which leads to surrender to the outside so cute cannot be resisted by any form of reason or rationality or any sense of understanding again the critique uh the irrational aspects of it it cannot be reasoned with and it’s beyond a sense of understanding right it is Transcendental it is embracing this transcendental conen numon uh and they they quote EG positive everything positive is connected or contained in zero and zero is immensely cute so everything is linked to the egg the body without organ potentiality and becoming and that’s linked of course to the zero uh as we discussed with Nick land uh m zero in terms of zero intensities the body without organs the catatonic skitso and that’s pretty much the book um so I hope you enjoyed that for a better lack of words I thought the book was very uh cute so um even though they say you know cuteness is not cute but you know it was it was it was a really fun read um if you’re familiar with accelerationist theory if you’re familiar with the lose you’ll you’ll be able to follow along with this just just fine I think if you’re not familiar with those Concepts it could be very confusing um but it was a fun read it it was definitely a fun read so that’s all I wanted to make a video on that because we do talk about anime on this channel and philosophy it’s like well I got to talk about this cuz it’s just merging the two together in cute cultures so um so if there is a next time uh I’m not sure if there will be this isn’t uh I’m not coming out of retirement or anything like that but I need I wanted to make a video on this so if there is a next time uh until then later
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Gonna start this series from the beginning, seems intriguing, please keep it up!!