In chapter four of ATP, D&G encourage us to think about discourse as effectual and as enabled effect. They criticize the scientism that leads linguists to draw impermeable lines between ‘constants’ and ‘variables’ – the center of a language and its apparently external, non-linguistic elements (2005 p.85). Instead, they suggest that we look at statements, [...]
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
A reading of D&G on pragmatics as a politics of language
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zizek suggests we should stop trying to change things
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Maybe you already saw this recent Democracy Now! interview, but I’ve been thinking specifically about Zizek’s final words in terms of “escaping the house,” ever since we had that conversation.
My contention (via my interpretation of Deleuze) was and still is: engagement is futile. The house will always win. Zizek seems to [...]
ABCD DELEUZE
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Deleuzinator speaks with Claire Parnet:
(en français)
Paul Klee in “On the Refrain”
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I will talk a bit more about this on Saturday if anyone is interested, but I think it opens up the text a bit more in “On the Refrain” to have some provided images of Paul Klee’s work. (I know some members in the group said they were not very familiar with his work.) His work often focuses on [...]
“Correct” is not a place we can visit.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First of all, when considering a text by Alan Sokal we must remember two things:
1) It could be complete nonsense.
2) It is automatically biased against particular discourse communities.
Recall the infamous Sokal Affair. What a big hero he was to write a paper full of jargon and get it published. What a spit in the eye [...]
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I usually love a good rousing challenge from the opposition, yet unfortunately Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont’s “Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science” especially in the section on Deleuze and Guattari, comes out feeling like misplaced stabs at not only intellectual rigor, but the actual intelligence of Deleuze and Guattari.
What is most disturbing [...]
Anti-Genealogy as Methodology . . .
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m intrigued by Deleuze and Guattari insisting so often that the rhizome is the anti-genealogy. If we do indeed read it as a methodology of critical inquiry (as I think is clearly one of their intentions) then we come head to head with a number of critical projects that profess the opposite as the their [...]
Unity through . . . Rhizome?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m impressed with our wonderfully diverse crew of Deleuzians: undergraduate to PhD, with disciplines ranging from Geography to Film, Rhetoric to Comparative Studies. We began with the introductions to What is Philosophy? and A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Next up: “What is a Concept?” and Chapter 11 of Plateaus, “Of the Refrain.” (I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The continued proliferation of links…
Click here for Deleuze and Civil disobedience.
Here is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between Foucault and Deleuze, in which they discuss the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc. to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power.
Here is a link to an issue of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the ever-growing links list on the sidebar for other lines of flight.
Here is a link to an hour long lecture by Manuel De Landa (EGS 2007) about Deleuze’s fascinating work on expressivity and morphogenesis.
And here is the motherload of Deleuze texts in pdf. downloadable form.
