3.4 Deleuze and Guattari and Cave Art Part 1: Primeval Magma of Life and "Another history which is still ours [that operates like] fires answering one another in the night."

Dilettantery

How My Poetry Comes To Me

by Gary Snyder, 1992

"It comes blundering over the /
Boulders at night, it stays /
Frightened outside the /
Range of my campfire /
I go to meet it at the /
Edge of the light"

Warning: This episode is me trying to figure out complicated philosophy. If that's not your thing you can skip to episode 3.6 without missing anything.

Example of the "primeval magma of life": https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1541657274438914048

“For Lorblanchet, these lines and marks indicate a clear metaphysical intention – ‘a primeval magma where all living and imaginary beings merge in formal games.’ Thus, these indeterminate lines and marks contain potentialities for the becoming of latent figural images and as such are, for Lorblanchet, a crucial element within the prehistoric figuration of a mythology of creation. Here, the figurative components are born from a formless tangle or magma, e.g., from the formless web of subsidiary lines, perhaps a hoof or an antler emerges, perhaps a muzzle or a creature’s spine, perhaps an eye stares out from the depths of the graphic chaos. The seemingly incohesive graphic chaos is seemingly vibrant with emergent forms of Life.”

-Darren Ambrose

“In art, and in painting as in music, it is not a matter of reproducing or inventing forms, but of capturing forces.... The task of painting is defined as the attempt to render visible forces that are not themselves visible.”

-Gilles Deleuze (Francis Bacon, 1981)

Rock art threads: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/y1i1x6/rock_art_threads/

Sources/place for discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/y4xaxo/34_deleuze_and_guattari_and_cave_art_part_1/?