Theory Deleuziana - The Mapuche is not the territory
Or that would mean a strange Deleuzian concatenation of becoming-territory...a little more applied than his poetics of Body of The Earth. Territory is strategic and the plane of capture and warfare. The Earth is fuzzy like a big teddy bear.
So in Korzybski's famous quote 'the map is not the territory' let us bloodymindedly contradict it and say it is. A handful of lovely examples come to us from the literature of Jorge Luis Borges. His short story volume 'The Book of Sand' has a story of a map being mad the same size as the territory. The story of the Book of Sand itself is of a book the generates unending sand.
That's a desert made on every opening enough to house all the Jacques Derrida's and Edmund Jabes' in the world and every bedouin traveller.
We can even make up a book ourselves. The book of water....and we have oceans. Simple.
The logic of Borges here is so loose and basic that the magical realism evoked is powerful.
We can play cat's cradle catachresis as well. The Ona Indian of southern Patagonia were the owner of their land. You can kill an owner but you can't kill the Earth, you can't decimate territory because the warmachine needs somewhere to roam!!
So if the Mapuche is a human of 'pure territory' then we could then ascribe certain geo-chameleonic powers, camouflage, invisibility and using the land and biome itself as weapon.
Deleuzian terms become territorialised. And territorialisation being a Deleuzian term, opens up the strange parallel dimension of meta-territoriality.
It's the stuff of metaphors literalising alive, and of earths making themselves, as if Borges wrote 'the book of Worlds'.
And what of Mapuche matrilineality? The Mapuche matriarch is known as a 'machi', holder of wisdom, power and magic. So, let's hope that their thoughts are not always realisable or the immanent process of realising.
It's why Mapuche female academics are treated as public enemy number 1 in Chile. Given the content and speculations of the humanities and sciences, a machi's thoughts may well range lexically beyond her forebears.
It bears a pause.
Directing and commanding animal behaviour, summonsing the book of lava, bending rivers, building mountains overnight, burning down state eucalypt plantations in acts of arson - these are some of the acts foisted upon the contemporary machi by populus and government.
And what of the eye of the Mapuche, their sensorial worlds, self imaginings, dreams if they actually dream.
The territory (as we've imagined it anyway) is no longer the map.
So, the science of cybernetics, it's offshoots and allied disciplines are radicalised.
Running lands like "Lautaro vs The Centaur (1544)" by Pablo Neruda, fairytale menagerie of European nobility and the immediacy of geography, flora and fauna wielded by the Cacique (Chieftain), Lautaro. The crooked rivers creating crooked people as speculated by film maker Raul Ruiz.
Copyright 2013 Ariel Riveros Pavez
Written in support of the Golden Matrix Project
The author is interested in representing the Chilean community in terms of collecting / managing creative and intellectual material when this project is funded.
The author, Ariel Riveros Pavez, has been published in various journals and magazines, most notably "Abadnon" International speculative fiction magazine (Scotland). He is a spoken word artist and convener of regular poetry events such as The Blue Space Poetry Jam and Elizabeatin' in Sydney, Australia.
So in Korzybski's famous quote 'the map is not the territory' let us bloodymindedly contradict it and say it is. A handful of lovely examples come to us from the literature of Jorge Luis Borges. His short story volume 'The Book of Sand' has a story of a map being mad the same size as the territory. The story of the Book of Sand itself is of a book the generates unending sand.
That's a desert made on every opening enough to house all the Jacques Derrida's and Edmund Jabes' in the world and every bedouin traveller.
We can even make up a book ourselves. The book of water....and we have oceans. Simple.
The logic of Borges here is so loose and basic that the magical realism evoked is powerful.
We can play cat's cradle catachresis as well. The Ona Indian of southern Patagonia were the owner of their land. You can kill an owner but you can't kill the Earth, you can't decimate territory because the warmachine needs somewhere to roam!!
So if the Mapuche is a human of 'pure territory' then we could then ascribe certain geo-chameleonic powers, camouflage, invisibility and using the land and biome itself as weapon.
Deleuzian terms become territorialised. And territorialisation being a Deleuzian term, opens up the strange parallel dimension of meta-territoriality.
It's the stuff of metaphors literalising alive, and of earths making themselves, as if Borges wrote 'the book of Worlds'.
And what of Mapuche matrilineality? The Mapuche matriarch is known as a 'machi', holder of wisdom, power and magic. So, let's hope that their thoughts are not always realisable or the immanent process of realising.
It's why Mapuche female academics are treated as public enemy number 1 in Chile. Given the content and speculations of the humanities and sciences, a machi's thoughts may well range lexically beyond her forebears.
It bears a pause.
Directing and commanding animal behaviour, summonsing the book of lava, bending rivers, building mountains overnight, burning down state eucalypt plantations in acts of arson - these are some of the acts foisted upon the contemporary machi by populus and government.
And what of the eye of the Mapuche, their sensorial worlds, self imaginings, dreams if they actually dream.
The territory (as we've imagined it anyway) is no longer the map.
So, the science of cybernetics, it's offshoots and allied disciplines are radicalised.
Running lands like "Lautaro vs The Centaur (1544)" by Pablo Neruda, fairytale menagerie of European nobility and the immediacy of geography, flora and fauna wielded by the Cacique (Chieftain), Lautaro. The crooked rivers creating crooked people as speculated by film maker Raul Ruiz.
Copyright 2013 Ariel Riveros Pavez
Written in support of the Golden Matrix Project
The author is interested in representing the Chilean community in terms of collecting / managing creative and intellectual material when this project is funded.
The author, Ariel Riveros Pavez, has been published in various journals and magazines, most notably "Abadnon" International speculative fiction magazine (Scotland). He is a spoken word artist and convener of regular poetry events such as The Blue Space Poetry Jam and Elizabeatin' in Sydney, Australia.
