‘of Form, or rathera becoming of Forces? The problem sa general
suse in many directions retains willbe planted by anew seed that
"ack modes, makes those modes communicate, undoes tempera
Htemetinsteadof breaking witht Wema iy lnglive habriee
«edo Schoenberg justas Nietzsche stidiong lve Breet, and for he
{Sons wih the tame technical and musical intent We go (rom
to an untempered, widened chromaticism, We do not need
“mai we need to utn i loose We go rom assembled refrains
ial, popuar, romantic ete] othe peat cosmic machined refai,
Shor ofereation i already under way in heist type; therein
sty, Deformations destined to harness a great force are aleady
‘nthe small-form refrain or rondo. Childhood scenes, children's
he stating point 8 childikevefai, ut the child has wings
ie hecomes cues. The Becoming child of he musician coW-
‘sa becoming-aerialofthe child, ina nondecomposable block. The
‘stan angel. or rather the becoming ofa cosmos. Crystal: the
{cid of Mozart i inseparable fom a becoming-ntate of the
orm Block with it Ite the extremely profound labor ded
the est typeof reeai that creates the second type, oF the litle
Fthe Cosmos In concerto, Schumann requires al the asm
‘the orchestra to make the cello wander the way sight fades ito
unge or is extinguished. In Schumann, whole leafed labor at
hin: narmoni, ané meloai, nas this sober ana smple result
hulize he refains Producea detertonalizedefainastbefinal
‘sie release tin the Cosmos-thatismoreimportantthanbuild-
‘stem. Opening the assemblage onto cosmic oree. nthe pas
sone tothe other, fom te assemblage of sounds tothe Machine
lees sonorous, rom the becoming-hild of the musician to the
‘cosmic ofthe child, many dangers cropupblack hols closues,
‘ofthe finger and auditory hallucinations, Schumann's madness,
vroegone had anol that pursues ou, a sound thal ansfiaes you
“Ssalready present inthe other the cosmic Tore wasalready pes:
Material te great refrain te lite reais. the peat mance
“tle maneuver, Except we can never be sure we wil be sro
‘ore have system, ony lines and mavements Schumann,
12. 1227: Treatise on Nomaddtpgy: cg
‘The War Machine
Nomad Chast Eni f Wd, Ala Fh Fou Cai
[AXIOM 1. The war machines exterior tothe State apparats.
Paovosiion I. Ths exterior fs tested 10m myles: ei
‘drama, and games
Georges Dumézil in is env analyses of td European mytolo.
fsahown ha plc sovereignty, or domination as two heads the
fraser king andthe jossepies Rex an flamer a} and Brahman
Romulus and Numa, Varuna and Mitte despet and he lesan (he
‘rand th oranzer Undoubtedly these wo poles stan oppo
tiontcmby tenmasthecbsure andthe clear. the olent andthe calm the
{i beware and he exledhe ond ane
Stet ee But ner opposition sony relive te function saan
‘Resnaton, ay hough fey expressed a dson othe One or constitu
inthemacvcs sovereign uniy--Avonce anita andcomplemerta.
teeny to oe another and conseqsaly witout host. aking &
tig Pag
S17,
Comythology of confit a speciation on anyone level automatically calls
forth ahomologousspecileation on another Thetwo together exhaust he
Field othe function." They are the principal elements of State apparatus
that proceeds by a One-Two, distbstes binary distinctions, tnd forms
‘ileuof terion. Iisa double articulation hat makesthe State appar
Teil be noted that wari not contained within this apparatus Either
‘he Sate hast ts disposal vilence that snot channeled trough war
tltherituses police officers ind jalersin place of wariors hasnoatmsand
fo need of them, operates by immediate, magica capture “seizes and
binds.” preventing al combat or the State acquires an army, but i's
ay that presupposes jundcalinepation of war and the oraniztion of
“imlitary function *AsTorthe war machine intel itscemstobe reduc
inletothe State apparatus, tobe ouside its sovereignty and rit tts
‘comes rom elsewhere. nda the warrior gd som oppostin ta Varuna
hnolessthan to Mira’ Hecan no more he reduced one or the othe than
hecanconsituteathiedofheirkind, Ruther heise pure and immess
rable multiplicity. he pack an ruption ofthe ephemeral andthe power
‘ofmetamoephosis He ties the Bond jst ashe trays the pact. Me Benes
“frorto bear against sovereignty. accent agains gravity secrecy against
the publi, a power (nussance) against sovereignty, a machine seus he
ppuratus. He bears witness to another hind of justice, ae of ncompre
hensbleereltyattimes, bata others oF unequaled pity aswel becausee
tnties Bonds." He beats wines, ahove al 0 oer relhons with
‘women, with animals because he ses ll things in elations of becoming
‘ather than implementing binary distibutions between “sats” weit
be Becoming-animal of the warrior Becoming-woman, which is Out.
side dualities of terms as wel as correspondences between relations In
‘very respect, the war machine i of another species, another nature,
nother origin than the State apparatus.
‘Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the
State apparatusin the context ofthe theory of games. Let us ake chess and
Go, from the standpoint of the game pieces, the relations between the
Pieces and the space involved. Chess sa game of State, orf the court the
“Emperor of China played it Chess pieces are coded they have an inter
lure and intensi properties rom which thee movements, situations
nd confrontations derive They have qualities night remains knight,
&pawa a pawn, a bishop «bishop. Each slike a subject of the statement
"endowed witha relative power and these relative powers combine in asub-
Jt of enunciation, that is the chess player or the game's form of
"nterioriy. Go pieces. in contrat are plete, disks, simple arithmetic
‘unis, and have only an anonymous, colective, oe tied person function
eeeremaurs eth te minimum amber of pees a Goa question
imumuabe outer eC asaoe
ofthe man of ar his9940 122: TREATISEOW NOMADOLOGY —THE WAR MACHINE
Sri. necessarily appears in a nese frm: upd, deform
adn legacy arpation sin Dum anaes ee
ofthe warior inte Indo-European radon gant th a eis
Drie enn the laws rginaigin the Sater esti ae
fresion that compromises the datibuion ot mes aging a ee
betrayal ofthe awsofwarasistuteg y he Siac tesa
the magic wlence othe
Sas atte tines withte States minayntnece Fo eee
‘ar machine nen speed and vreay ante aaa
peedandd conan secre thatpcrantatheSie rene esa
Soler isagret danger oicentivng theta eee
‘wo ole folic soe. and the dynamic neste hee
{0 ols, mth the power af wr Dome es he ee
ng tec isa Romolas Numa reaton ta tras Manoa
‘eth vanansandan alternation Staen honey eel
mater btthereisaloarciatonmihan-etne ete
Tergunis Supers an opus
‘ower confused with the lin of Sate domination everything on
ed the war mathe can then be understood only trough interes
of the negative, since nothing is left that remains outside the Sane ne
{turned 10 is miliew of exerioiy the war machine is sees a be
another species, of another nature of another origin, One wecld eae
say that it is located between the to heads ofthe State, betwen the 199
articulations andthatit is necessary inordesto pass from onetothesthee
But between” the two. in that instant, cvenephemersl. ony shakey
Droclaims sown ireducibility The State has mr ur macinedftsonch
‘san only appropriate one intheform of military insaton onesher
continually cause it problems This explains the mint Sate ho
foward ther military institutions, in tht the military insta eke
an exsinsic war machine. Kar von Clausewite has a general seoaey
situation when he treats the flow of absolstewar aban lea tht Stats a
Wally appropriate according to their political ects. and in selaaee
hich they are more or less go! “condctor
“Trapped between the tvo ples of palitcal sovereignty, the man of war
seems outmoded, condemned, without future, reduced this ove for
which he turns aginst himself The descendants of Hercules, ach
‘then Ajax have enough stenghlet to proclaim thei independence fas
‘Asamemon,a man of the old ite. But they ae poerlesswhenstcome
Ulysses, man of thenascent modern tate the ist mane odors
Stae.Anditis Ulysses who inhents Achilles arms, only toconven there
‘other uses, submitting them to the laws ofthe State—-not Aan uhoigcon,
demned bythe goddess he defied and aginst whom he sinned” Novo
‘has portrayed the situation oft man af war at once seceoic sole
ddemned, better than Kleist. In Fenheslea, Achilles altcady separa
from his power: the war machinehas passed over othe Amarone a See,
less woman-people whose justice, religion, nd loves a ovguniaed
uniquely ina war mode, DescendantsotheScythians the Amazore prea
{loth tk lightning, “between” the two States, the Greek andthe Trou
‘They seep away everything inher path Achilles is Brought Petes oe