Home is a space in the heart of chaos by which forces of chaos are kept out side as much as possible; inside is a space that protects. Likewise expression too is a territory which is formed against other expressions i.e. territories. Birds sing to mark its territory. The Greek modes and Islamic rhythms are themselves territorial, provincial, regional as history itself shows. A Mullah Namajin tunes rhythms of Koran in early in the morning to mark his territory, to make one aware that he is still there to rule the kingdom of heaven. Every expression carries earth with it, it has a land says Deleuze. Expressions are rhythms and are not necessarily originary as they are always responses to existing one. It has a purpose since it proclaims, it is an expansion of the 'I'. Deleuze with post-structuralism methodology explains how rhythms are milieus and are born from chaos and even how chaos itself gets transformed into milieu. He says chaos is the milieu of all milieus. So chaos is the origin of all hitherto milieus, all expressions. Every creation is an expression that is directed against chaos even peace, love, friendship etc are expressions directed against chaos this is why they in return create their double war, hate, enmity etc. Deleuze takes expression critically and purposefully to deconstruct it as a sublime aspect of human beings. Expressions have nothing sublime in it far they are responses to the existing expressions carrying territorial motifs. In order to be territorial one has to be expressive, rhythmic. When a rhythm becomes expressive or an expression becomes rhythmic means it is 'territorializing' by this power sometimes it comes out in open independently marking a territory some times in relation to other existing territories. Being expressive one deterritorializes the expression that has become refrain. Refrain is territorial and exercised against new expressions forming territories. Expression exist because refrain exist. Regarding musical expressions Deleuze says, "music exist because the refrain exists also, because music takes up the refrain, lays hold of it in a form of expression, because it forms a block with it in order to take it somewhere else.... It a creative, active operation that consists in deterritorializing the refrain" and about painting he says the aim of painting has always been the deterritorialization of faces and landscape, either by reactivation of corporeality, or by a liberation of lines or colors, or both at the same time. M.F.Husain deterritorializes the faces of Hindu deities to form a territory; not his own since he is not expressive as such that can form a territory but for political gain from the pseudo-democratic parties. By this deteritorialization he is rhythmizing the orchestral tones of so called pseudo-democratic forces. Hence his face distorting motif associates itself with forces of deterritorialization. In expression there is nothing sublime nothing divine as long as it deterritorializes, as long it is ideational and associated with the forces of refrain or forces of deterritoriazing refrain. Expression is like carving a space, a center than drawing a circle around it to refrain the forces of chaos. It is sublime deed like the foundation of the city or the fabrication of a golem. It is innately territorial and metaphysically it is not a new creation it is assemblage of various traits. According to Deleuze when an expressive quality forms a territory assembling various expressive qualities and transforms itself in milieu, it becomes stable by transforming itself as the very soul of people. When, Deleuze says that rhythms can be transformed through progressive repetition in a milieu he sheds light on the darker side of human history. History shows us that a particular expression through progressive repetition loses its intellectualistic element of an individual character and becomes 'Life' as in the case of a religious text or cultural expression practiced in a society say festivals practiced in a society. Festivals are reminders of the forces of milieus. A festival becomes cultural through the power of repetition. By repetition false can become truth Hitler recognized this wisdom one century back. Through constant practice and repetition an expression becomes a cultural movement. We have seen how the poems of Kabir Das, Bulle Shah, Saikh Farid etc have become a subject of faith. We know very well how it became a kind of cultural movement in India. But according to Deleuze these expressions i.e. milieus though appear to exist independently yet have 'one' center from where do they appear and in which they evolve. This One center is recognized by all postmodern and poststructuralists as 'METAPHYSICS' and attacked by them thoroughly with the discourse on metterialism. Deconstructing this center Derrida said, "Heart of light is black". This one source the heart is the milieu of milieu and exists by its very virtue of a periodic repetition means because of a wave of repetitive exercise. Every milieu produces its repeaters in the form of Messiaen. Messiaen is the masters of repetition he knows how to repeat in order to produce the quality of rhythm required to excel. Jesus says, "I am speaking the same truth spoken by Musa before my coming". So milieu exists by the virtue of repetition but sometimes it also happens that one milieu passes into another milieu and transforms itself to mark a broader territory. Sometimes one milieu expands itself incorporating many others, sometimes loses its individuality, its expressive quality and incorporated by another one thus transforming itself enriches that milieu as in the case of Bone religion of Tibet which was incorporated by Buddhism.
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