Two things must be distinguished, abstractly: the domain of vital experimentation, and the domain of deadly experimentation. Vital experimentation occurs when any trial grabs you, takes control of you, establishing more and more connections, and opens you to connections. This kind of experiment can entail a kind of self-destruction. It can take place with companion or starter products: tobacco, alcohol, drugs. It is not suicidal as long as the destructive flow is not reduced to itself but serves to conjugate other flows, whatever the danger.

The suicidal enterprise occurs when everything is reduced to this flow alone: ‘my’ hit, ‘my’ trip, ‘my’ glass. It is the contrary of connection; it is organized disconnection. Instead of a ‘motif’ that serves real themes and activities, it is a simple, flat development like a stereotypical plot where the drug is for the drug’s sake. And it makes for a stupid suicide.

Gilles Deleuze :: Two Questions on Drugs :: Two Regimes of Madness

Having spent a good amount of time with people who practiced forms of such experimentation, both vital and deadly, this puts things in an interesting perspective.  When you think of it, getting caught up in the drug or the drink is essentially abolishing the reasons why you tried them in the first place.  Somehow that is why drug and alcohol addiction are so uninteresting as human experiences.  What is interesting is how you stay tangential to addiction

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I djed for the group in the previous post tonight, Fallen Whistles. The guy who’s behind it all really spoke well about his cause. Apparently they took the whistle as a symbol as young boys who are too weak to carry arms are sent as the front line into enemy territory in the congo with whistles as their only defense, to die. Sean was able to involve the UN in efforts to stop the killings, but some how related to recent births and deaths in my life it all falls into perspective. Here it is musically; Who do you love?

you can buy a whistle at Fred Segal Santa Monica this Thursday Oct 22nd from 7-10. All proceeds go directly to the rehabilitation of the people of Congo and efforts to bring peace.

I’m Djing the event. Learn more about the effort. Great blog with classic photography. www.fallingwhistles.com/

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