Questions tagged [deleuze-and-guattari]
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Memory vs. Repetition in Deleuze
In the introduction of Difference and Repetition, Deleuze seems to contrast repetition with memory. How does this really cash out? Does this mean Deleuze is making the claim that memory is a kind of ...
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Is perspectivism a subtype of relativism?
This question is motivated by a comment discussion from my previous question. From this article that was linked in a comment:
“Perspectivism, or scientific relativism, is never relative to a subject: ...
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Is there a need to get oneself sufficiently familiar with Freud in order to understand Anti-Oedipus?
As in title. I'm relatively familiar with Deleuze’s early works on Nietzsche and Spinoza, but have not yet ventured in the D&G zone.
From a secondary source I learned that Anti-Oedipus can be ...
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Has anything been written to add to Taussig's work on shamanism?
Taussig is a contemporary anthropologist, who has worked on 'shamanism'. Apparently.
He seeks to do away with the idea of the shaman as someone who has been individualised through unity of self and ...
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How to learn to read Guattari & Deleuze?
I am a 4th-year social science PhD student at an American R-1 business school. I feel fairly comfortable reading relatively abstract sociology of the more philosophical bent. Reading abstract thinkers ...
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Why does one worry about the existence of a number but not of a dog?
One can ask whether the number one exists, and there are a range of answers.
In particular, Platonism holds that this number does exist in some abstract world.
Now observe that number and one are ...
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Deleuzian finitism and Spinozian infinitism
In the IEP entry on Deluze, there is the following:
Commenting on Lucretius, Deleuze makes the following, extremely similar, remark:
"The speculative object and the practical object of ...
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What is the relationship between the rhizome and the body without organs?
I am in the middle of A Thousand Plateaus and considering the relationship between rhizome and body without organs.
One thought I had is that they both take part in the constitution of relationships ...
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Is the Body without Organs a phase space? Or an image of the actual body?
Reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, I am unclear on the nature of the Body without Organs. Most literature seems to describe this body as a phase space in the mathematical sense of the term, ...
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How does Desire create the Real?
In Holland's Introduction to Schizoanalysis, the author states that Desire produces the Real analogously to the production of evidence in a courtroom: Desire structures and invests our perceptions.
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Is the machinic ontology in Anti-Oedipus metaphysical or psychological?
I am beginning reading Anti-Oedipus and am trying to understand the synthesis of two notions D+G discuss in the first section on Desiring Machines:
The quasi-metaphysical conception of everything as ...
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How do I begin to understand Event & Possibility?
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he tries to develop a metaphysics adequate to contemporary mathematics and science—a metaphysics in which the concept of multiplicity replaces that of substance, event ...
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Is Deleuzes philosophical 'fabrication of concepts' poesis unfolded & diagrammed?
What connects thinking and poetry [Dichten] is metaphor. In philosophy one calls concept what in poetry [Dichtkunst] is called metaphor. Thinking creates its “concepts” out of the visible, in order to ...
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What is a larval-subject?
On the heading of this blog:
Larvae are creatures in a process of becoming or development that have not yet actualized themselves in a specific form. This space is a space for the incubation of ...
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Was Bergson a physicalist?
In Radical Philosophy 92, Sean Watson in his article The New Bergsonianism writes:
The first proposition central to any Bergsonist philosophy is simply that (in contrast to the traditional ...
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