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How long is a thousand plateaus?

How long is a thousand plateaus?

A Thousand Plateaus

Cover of the first edition
Authors Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari
Media type Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages 645 (French edition) 610 (English translation)
ISBN 978-0816614028

What did Deleuze say about schizophrenia?

37, 51, 139), Deleuze and Guattari believe that since the schizophrenic lives at the level of pure, unconstrained desire (i.e., forces of production), his experience has revolutionary potential, while desire in a “normal” or “socialized” individual is subjugated to the established order (e.g., Deleuze & Guattari, 2000.

What should I read before Deleuze?

In particular, consider reading Lautman, Ruyer and Simondon; these are critical sources for Deleuze, and will make many of his subtleties more clear (Nietzsche and Spinoza can also help here too.)

How do I read Deleuze books?

Anti‑Oedip…1972A Thousand Plateaus1980Difference and Repetition1968Nietzsche1965Foucault1988What Is Philosophy?1991
Gilles Deleuze/Books

What is the rhizome theory?

A rhizome is purely a network of multiplicities that are not arborescent (e.g. the idea of hypertext in literary theory) with properties similar to lattices. Deleuze referred to it as extending from his concept of an “image of thought” that he had previously discussed in Difference and Repetition.

What is schizophrenia in postmodernism?

Postmodern cultural theory of the late twentieth century has used the term schizophrenia to ends far removed from the clinical diagnosis of individual suffering.

What is concept according to Deleuze and Guattari?

As Deleuze and Guattari say in What is Philosophy?, the concept posits itself and its object at one and the same time; the concept, in short, is self-referential.

What does Deleuze mean by a body without organs?

Deleuze and Guattari viewed the body as a self-regulating machine (through the process of homeostasis), and as a result, the possible activities of its constituent parts—its organs—were limited.

What is a small plot of new land at all times?

“This is how it should be done: lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by …

Why is Deleuze so difficult?

with Gilles Deleuze. Reading is difficult, if for no other reason than that the text is always already dead in some substantial way, opaque to the reader to some degree. Even if one had the author to explain the text, there is no guarantee the author understands their own text, let alone what it means.

What are Rhizoidal hyphae?

In fungi, rhizoids are small branching hyphae that grow downwards from the stolons that anchor the fungus to the substrate, where they release digestive enzymes and absorb digested organic material. That is why fungí are called heterotrophs by absorption.