body without organs

body without organs is a term used by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's character Professor Challenger, Challenger refers to the earth as "....a body without organs. This body without organs is permeated by unformed, unstable matters, by flows in all directions, by free intensities or nomadic singularities, by mad or transitory particles.....inevitable phenomenon that.....consist of giving form to matters, of imprisoning intensities or locking singularities into systems of resonance and redundancy, of producing upon the body of the earth molecules large and small and organizing them into molar aggregates."(p40) [Professor Challenger is also one of the characters of a Saturday tv serial adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work "The Lost World".] When I came upon these words I was in the process of making a 3D animation using modules called 'blubbles'. It is with these blubbles, that I made my body without organs. The 3D program allows images or textures to be applied to the surface of the module or 'skinned'. In this case I had been using .jpeg images downloaded from x-rated Internet sites (paying tribute to the success of that business on the web). Discovering these passages at the time I was making this protean animation is what I would call a fortuitous conjunction. A 'necessary conjunction' is essentially a causal relation. A 'non-fortuitous conjunction' is something which one wishes didn't happen and an 'unnecessary conjunction' would be something similar to the thought process leading to the decision to bomb a marginally developed country into oblivion when one really didn't have to. Many conjunctions, assumed to be necessary, are really just fortuitous when examined later in a less passionate state. My fortuitous conjunction was reading Deleuze and Guattari at the same time I was making the animation I was calling 'spheroids'. Watching these spheroids pass through space, glomming on to one another, skins blending one into the other, it instantly became clear that I was looking at a three dimensional/temporal model for change (quite different from subatomic or nuclear interaction). This monadic activity was more fitting to the relationship between ideas and concepts or individual works of art as they relate to a body of work. This three dimensional/temporal model was a way to visualize the relationship between various works of art over time, as in one's own body of work. I have no idea if this model holds for others. Perhaps for some, but that is not the point. The point is, I had found a means of modeling a generative theory for the production of my own art work as a direct result of reading Deleuze and Guattari, watching Saturday afternoon 'B' adventure stories while struggling with a slightly complex 3D animation program and downloading .jpeg's from x-rated Internet sites. I also discovered a universal law of economics in the process: Never mind that at the time of this formulation, I had mistakenly believed that the animation program's modules were called 'baubles' rather than 'blubbles' (blubbles actually works better for body's without organs, for what is a blubble if not a body without an organ). Blubbles or baubles , the equation rephrased states that Schizophrenia equals Capitalism (expressed as the total monetary value of the system) divided by Baubles (the total number of transactions of goods or services). Schizophrenia appears to be a constant. Be that as it may, the issue at hand is the theoretical discussion of the 3D animation entitled 'body without organs'. Each globule becomes a module, an activity or object whose surface skin is continually shifting as that globule merges with other globules only to reemerge as something transfigured. Any given 'artwork' becomes transformed by other works as they blend together in subsequent creations only to reform later as something different. This process appears temporal, however if reversed the reformations still occur. Time is simply a direction, albeit reversible. The process continues.