Chapter

Organon of Sailing

To Traverse and Allow Yourself To Be Traversed (Anti-Erotics)

EXCERPT

[10.1] The preceding canonical points, which together make up an antipolitics of the solitary sailor, deliver the prolegomenae to Brittany. Now, prolegomenae are given in advance of a science. And this is indeed what is at stake here: to establish Brittany as science, or more exactly as gnosis: not a worldly science but a human knowledge.

[10.2] Brittany is only really gnostic in so far as it is not just ‘gnostic’, but a gnosis.

[10.3] Above I dealt with the canon of circumscription in the subjective genitive: circumscription’s can(n)on, that is to say, the apparatus of norm and explosion that circumscription requires in order for its rebellion against the world to be more than a mere pretence. Now we turn to the canon of circumscription in the objective genitive: the can(n)on that is constituted by circumscription, that is to say the organon of sailing. If circumscription’s can(n)on is gnostic, that to which it owes its emergence, namely the organon of sailing, is a gnosis…