Nomad Thought

The function of this webpage is to track my progress and reflections on the various Plateaus found within A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Ideally, I'll start by simply logging the time and date after I've read any particular Plateau, hoping that the more I read and reread them, the more they'll exert some kind of palpable influence on my thought and writing. This writing was started at [REDACTED] on Saturday the 12th of April, 2025. More broadly, this manuscript as a whole, of which this document is a part of, is intended to service the aims of my larger 3 writing projects. Expect any and everything.

I call feel a hole being bored into my skull, or some insect trying to drill its way out of my forehead. The pain never stops. The bees made honey in the lion's skull.

Lately while attempting to learn Czech I've been reading and re-reading 10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals: (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) because there's a Czech translation of the entirety of A Thousand Plateaus entitled Tisíc Plošin. So, the essay I've been reading in that translation as well is entitled 10,000 PŘ. KR. - Geologie Morálky (Za co se považuje Země?). It's a bit difficult because I really don't think my vocabulary is good enough yet to make sense of this material, despite the fact that only a month into my Czech reading I've already managed to make almost 11,000 LingQs in the span of a month.

While doing all of this I've been listening to the music of Gerald Donald a lot more, from Dopplereffekt, Drexicya, Arpanet, Der Zyklus, to his Heinrich Mueller remixes. I realized that I was already predisposed to the blending of Nazi and Soviet aesthetics of the Tempel ov Blood by listening to the music of Dopplereffekt, specifically the era from the Fascist State EP, where he playfully utilized German psuedonyms along with song titles like "Superior Race" and "Sterilization", to Gesamtkunstwerk, which features a white hammer and sickle on a black background for an album cover. Later on he adopts an aesthetic approach that exposes his flirtations with the hard sciences, specifically in his more ambient works like Linear Accelerator and Calabi Yau Space. It's even more pronounced in his song titles for many Arpanet tracks.

There's something special in the cold simplicity of the tracks on Gesamtkunstwerk, which sound like they were made with only a TR-808 synced up with a Roland Alpha Juno 2, I can't really imagine how it was all sequenced together because the quantization on the synthesizers sounds too precisely repetitive for me to believe it was all played live. Maybe a combination of both. It doesn't sound like he had any access to any effects, so there's no reverb to add a false depth or muddiness to the mix. Everything sounds clinically pristine. I've been listening to a particular mix from VLR entitled "Research: Heinrich Mueller" which leans the most into Gerald Donald's nuclear physics worship. Alongside that there's another mix I found, an actual vinyl set featuring tracks mainly from his Drexciya project, from a Soundcloud user by the name of Morri.

It's been said many times that each Plateau in this book can stand on its own and you don't need to read all of the others to get something out of them, but at least the more I read it and see how wildly interconected all of them are, I'm starting to think that's a crock of shit. My mind's been a god damn beehive lately. As of today, my three major writing projects are Liber 909, Struggle Sessions: Selected Essays 2018-2021, and Gates of Moss. Liber Certaminis is more of a grab bag and a well needed outlet for experimentation.

It's now August 13th, 2025. I'm looking out the window of the Philosophy/Psychology department's lounge and I can see a domed, circular stadium. It's a view I've seen many times before. I'm sitting here doing my Czech lessons, reading Chat-GPT prompted AI slop on Geologie Morálky. The two writings within A Thousand Plateaus that I see the Geology of Morals as the most connected with are likely the Treatise on Nomadology, the sections on becoming-imperceptible, and the writings on the Apparatus of Capture. Although you can read this book in any order I see every Plateau as deeply interconnected with every other, but with each having various degrees of thematic overlap. I'll have to read more to confirm this suspicion but I also have a feeling that the Geology of Morals has the most overlap with Chapter 4 of Difference and Repetition, The Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible. I'm allowing myself to be patient with myself. I don't have to try to explain everything all at once.