Twenty-Eighth Series of Sexuality

Page 196-197: On the organs' projection to a surface (i.e. body without organs).

There is a nestedness to the organization of organs and surfaces. "Each zone [surface] is the dynamic formation of a surface space around a singularity constituted by an orifice." (197) See this post on the buttonhole. The orifice is the archetypal example of the buttonhole. If you can understand the structure of the singularity, then you can understand how singularities are nested and communicate. This is integral to Deleuzian geophilosophy.

Page 198: If one can imagine the Pascal triangle as a 3-dimensional gyre, the gyre can invert where what was depth (i.e. the mixtures of depth, the interior of the cone) are pushed into 2-dimensions, while what was surface rises to the height to observe this new surface, not realizing it is at the pinnacle of the now-inverted gyre. As D says, "from a bird's eye view, it is but a fold more or less easily undone." [my emphasis] In this way, each event, each inversion and projection, is in fact, doubly, a subversion and a perversion. I am not entirely sure of what D means when he says, "Each zone is pierced by a thousand orifices which annul it," but I believe this refers to the thousand singularities, red dots, that give shape to the Pascal triangle, both giving it a form and also disciplining it. This is how the Body without Organs (surface) is tied up and bound, so that it does not go off schizophrenically propagating into n dimensions.