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Networks escape our immediate attention because we are naturally and generically always engaged with them, like moving our legs and hands while walking and talking on a sunny day of a spring. Space and time is however abundant in networks, in all their diverse forms and modes.
Networks ....networks....networks...networks...networks....Life is just full of networks.....and......relations.......social/political.....culturial.......economic.....spiritual........material.......from nature through mankind upto the universal .....even in a cosmic scale......
If the INTELLECTUAL as a singular and an autonomous entity .....could ever see through the intensities and multiplicities (Deleuze's philo-catagories) of these networks ....with the good will/desire (Deleuze**) of mediation.....the Political and the Social would turn to be a positive plane, where progress could be attained as a whole,...... with its total sum of ..... "CIVIL---ization" (not meaning a "western" mode of life, but a process of building a solid social complex in the interest of the citizen)....be it cultural or technical modernization.......
The Ethiopian modern elite so far seem to have a problem in this role....(The role of a catalyst (cf. DeLnada) for something to emerge anew (cf. complexity theory)).
http://www.springerlink.com/content/23n5332121wl1q41/fulltext.pdf
If the elite mange to look at our history from this perspective of "networks", I believe , inspite of what went "wrong" in history -be it recent or older, - " .....a battle ....not based on the logic of meaning but on that of events" (cf. Foucault/Kai Eriksson) - as an emerging "collective", ........the Ethiopians; ....ie. WE can ALL-together terminate ---the non-productive and the rather weird period of war and revolution - to organise a "productive" future, better and wiser; "productive" in all its dimensions of meaning, under the given conditions of the social "ontology". In this social "ontology" the big obstacle seems to be the political section - the political dimension is still struggling to come out of its infantility....( See the election campaign these days! The same old themes....of ethnicity are being introduced).
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We have to break out of the box!!
Like these young people at the grass roots,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meSSa19FhRk&feature=player_embedded
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I find the following approaches**, to be helpful to do better in our reflections:
http://artnode.se/artorbit/issue1/f_deleuze/f_deleuze_delanda.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4887395799014654556#
If you want to download Delanda's lecture (for individual use):
http://www.mediafire.com/?otmnrym0dwj
**"Deleuze’s conception of philosophy is characterized by an aspiration to think through flows, movements, alliances, and disentanglements rather than essences, structures, or institutions: for him it is desire and lines of flight that set the conditions of power, communication, and history."(Foucault, deleuze, and the ontology of networks, Kai Eriksson a Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. p604/p11)
+ Deleuze's works and books /rather difficult to follow/ (Difference & repititions, Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, What is Philosophy etc.); Delanda's (A thousand of years of nonlinear history; A new philosophy of society, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines etc.)
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