Superb essay, Sam (if I may). The sentences have the flow of breath itself -- an equivocal observation, no doubt, but, then, as you might say, it isn't spent filling up someone else's balloon. Bravo.
Wow, thanks for making Deleuze make sense! More seriously, your article helps crystalize some mental disjuncture as I navigate a return to the office after three years WFH. I'm good at work (office or home) but this essay explains how the internal/external mechanisms have felt noticeably different.
To spitball wildly, there might be a bit of yin-yang in trying to find balance in these worlds. At home (control) environment you have exercise self-"discipline" ruthlessly shut down all inputs when you're off the clock. It's great to go with a flow at home (take naps!), but you have to make sure the work-flow doesn't constantly intrude in your life. At the office (disciplinary) environment you have to exercise self-"control" to avoid volunteering (or being volunteered) on extra tasks, adding hours in the building. I often have a difficult time re-adjusting to life at home after a hard deadline push at the office. Work gives cheap victories, while home life is a long-term play without easy wins - I get how workaholics get addicted at the detriment to their greater selves and families.
Hi Justus, I agree with all of that. The two can be very different. Often, in office life, I would feel like I'd be pounding the pavement, working very hard, etc, etc, and then at the end of the week, look up and realize that I'd actually gotten nothing done. In work-from-home, I often feel lazy, unmotivated, as if life has no particular taste, and then realize at the end of the day or a week that I've actually accomplished an unbelievable amount. I think a lot of it has to do with social pressure, being part of company culture, etc, as opposed to dealing with one's own work discipline. Yeah, it's been very interesting for me (and especially with this Deleuzian framing in mind) to try to think these two pretty different modes of existence.
This helps because Beadrillardsends his readers to Deleuze for Star Wars weapons systems I know it sounds weird but he would talk about Paul Verillios ideas about new manifest air defenses or whatever MAD means in the same breath as Deleuze. So that i steered clear. Having no power you understand. Deleuze is concerned with our eye to eye relays, you corrected a misunderstanding for me.
Dude, I can't keep up with everything you've read! I wikipedia'd Paul Virilio because he shows up in the Deleuze article but haven't read him. He sounds fascinating!
I am quite sure that you lucked onto the better half of B's friends among his contemporaries. Deleuze is on the human tip. Or tit, as we say. And Virillio is going to predict something akin to drone flights, what really might end up being the death of us, I think in a style that might have the irony that we criticize the diesembodied 20 000feet high views of these guys, but when they are right we think maybe it might be practical to know what the next police chief to go neurotically violently batty has up their sleeves for us. Maybe.
Superb essay, Sam (if I may). The sentences have the flow of breath itself -- an equivocal observation, no doubt, but, then, as you might say, it isn't spent filling up someone else's balloon. Bravo.
Thank you Paul! Deeply appreciate it. That's a very meaningful compliment for me - something that I really aspire to achieve.
Wow, thanks for making Deleuze make sense! More seriously, your article helps crystalize some mental disjuncture as I navigate a return to the office after three years WFH. I'm good at work (office or home) but this essay explains how the internal/external mechanisms have felt noticeably different.
To spitball wildly, there might be a bit of yin-yang in trying to find balance in these worlds. At home (control) environment you have exercise self-"discipline" ruthlessly shut down all inputs when you're off the clock. It's great to go with a flow at home (take naps!), but you have to make sure the work-flow doesn't constantly intrude in your life. At the office (disciplinary) environment you have to exercise self-"control" to avoid volunteering (or being volunteered) on extra tasks, adding hours in the building. I often have a difficult time re-adjusting to life at home after a hard deadline push at the office. Work gives cheap victories, while home life is a long-term play without easy wins - I get how workaholics get addicted at the detriment to their greater selves and families.
Hi Justus, I agree with all of that. The two can be very different. Often, in office life, I would feel like I'd be pounding the pavement, working very hard, etc, etc, and then at the end of the week, look up and realize that I'd actually gotten nothing done. In work-from-home, I often feel lazy, unmotivated, as if life has no particular taste, and then realize at the end of the day or a week that I've actually accomplished an unbelievable amount. I think a lot of it has to do with social pressure, being part of company culture, etc, as opposed to dealing with one's own work discipline. Yeah, it's been very interesting for me (and especially with this Deleuzian framing in mind) to try to think these two pretty different modes of existence.
This helps because Beadrillardsends his readers to Deleuze for Star Wars weapons systems I know it sounds weird but he would talk about Paul Verillios ideas about new manifest air defenses or whatever MAD means in the same breath as Deleuze. So that i steered clear. Having no power you understand. Deleuze is concerned with our eye to eye relays, you corrected a misunderstanding for me.
Dude, I can't keep up with everything you've read! I wikipedia'd Paul Virilio because he shows up in the Deleuze article but haven't read him. He sounds fascinating!
I am quite sure that you lucked onto the better half of B's friends among his contemporaries. Deleuze is on the human tip. Or tit, as we say. And Virillio is going to predict something akin to drone flights, what really might end up being the death of us, I think in a style that might have the irony that we criticize the diesembodied 20 000feet high views of these guys, but when they are right we think maybe it might be practical to know what the next police chief to go neurotically violently batty has up their sleeves for us. Maybe.