Category Archive: Deleuze and Guattari

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30 Jul

Dooley on Deleuze: the Dieulieuzian-Dooleuzian Disjunction

Let me just say that it has been such an honor and such a treat to welcome Brian Dooley and his voice to Fractal Ontology (cf. Brian’s recent work “Schizophrenia…
Monday, July 30, 2012 at 4:12 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
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20 Feb

Dream

    “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegans Wake     Dream-analysis does not necessitate an affirmation of the existence of…
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 8:40 pm By Joseph Weissman 14 Replies
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01 Jun

A Thousand Plateaus, Chapter Eight: Lines and Segmentarity

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Although Deleuze and Guattari consistently use the line of flight as a concept…
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 1:36 am By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
05 May

Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Pragmatics

Until Marxism, capitalist political economy has also pretended for a long time to pass as the general grammar of all economy, but linguistics still has not found its Marx and…
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 4:47 am By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
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09 Apr

Minority

The scientific enterprise of extracting constants and constant relations is always coupled with the political enterprise of imposing them on speakers and transmitting order-words. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus…
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 10:58 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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09 Mar

Meta-ontology

It is impossible to conceive the assemblage of a scientific experiment apart from a field that generates plans and topological, mathematical, axiomatic and computational descriptions. But sign-machines can function equally…
Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 8:22 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
08 Mar

On Learning

One way of approaching the difference between knowledge and learning (so profound in our opinion that, despite their entanglement, there can be postulated neither a material nor conceptual ground which…
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:23 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
03 Mar

Imperceptible

“Regimes of signs are not based on language, and language alone does not constitute an abstract machine, whether structural or generative. The opposite is the case. It is language that…
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
10 Feb

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: November 20, 1923 — Postulates of Linguistics

In truth, the nature of the abstract machine is the most general problem: there is no reason to tie the abstract machine to the universal or the constant, or to…
Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 12:16 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
02 Feb

Thinking Cybernetics

(Matt Dixon) Thinking Cybernetics: Mapping the Intersections between Metaphysics, Technology, Biopolitics (abstract for panel) The purpose of this panel is to gather together ideas, perspectives, and questions from a diverse…
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 4:29 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
19 Jan

Deconstructing Cybernetics

Notes on Derrida and Cybernetics Let us conjecture that the invention of the transistor — an auto-controllable circuit — indicates the attainment of a critical level of development in cybernetics,…
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 12:33 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
16 Nov

On Borges: Labyrinths

I deny, with the arguments of idealism, the vast temporal series which idealism admits. Hume denied the existence of an absolute space, in which all things have their place; I…
Friday, November 16, 2007 at 2:15 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
14 Nov

Nietzsche and the Capture and Domestication of Peoples

  “You shall obey—someone and for a long time: else you will perish and lose the last respect for yourself”—this appears to me to be the moral imperative of nature…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 3:56 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
05 Nov

Translation: Véronique Bergen’s Diagram of the Evolution of Deleuzian Concepts

The following is a translation of a section containing a table of the evolutions of the names of the transcendental field and the operators of differenciating liaisons from L’Ontologie de…
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 4:13 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
03 Nov

Translation: Two Entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book on Deleuze’s Vocabulary: Univocity and Pre-Individual Singularities

The following are two entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book La vocabulaire de Deleuze. Paris: Ellipses, 2003. Original Translation by Taylor Adkins 11/03/07. Pre-individual Singularities * We cannot accept the alternative…
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 3:16 am By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
02 Nov

Blogosphere Kinships: Activity at Massthink

I’ve been visiting the massthink blog (populated by Ryan and Aless) for a couple of months now, but, as a bad reader, I failed to leave comments. I was thrilled…
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 11:08 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
31 Oct

Zarathustra and Genealogy: Where the State Ceases…

In Book 1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there is a speech on the state (“Of the New Idol”) that is surrounded by a speech on war and the warrior prior…
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 7:55 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
23 Oct

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Rhizome, Chapter 1

D+G have reached the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I [This, of course, is preceded by similar assertions about the schizophrenic in Anti-Oedipus].…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:55 pm By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
23 Oct

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Chapters 1 and 2

Anti-Oedipus 1: Desiring-Machines For every organ-machine, an energy machine (1). Schizophrenia and the time before the man-nature dichotomy/split (1). Nature lived as process of production (2). Oedipus presupposes a fantastic…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:53 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
19 Oct

Translation: Simondon, Completion of Section I, Chapter 1, The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis

In the first place, singularities-events correspond to heterogeneous series which are organized into a system which is neither stable nor unstable, but rather ‘metastable,’ endowed with a potential energy wherein…
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:10 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
16 Oct

Machines, Morphogenesis and Complexity

Cellular automata The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
11 Oct

Machinic Autopoesis

Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists…
Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 6:40 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
03 Sep

The Hero and the Kingly Function: Starkadr in Dumezil’s Stakes of the Warrior

There are two versions of the story of Starkadr (Starcatherus), one Latin, the other Old Icelandic. Starkadr is forced into a precarious position, caught between Odin and Thor. Here I…
Monday, September 3, 2007 at 7:52 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
11 May

Converging Debord, Badiou, Deleuze and Guattari

Three aspects of the spectacle—society itself/parts of society/means of unification. This is the place of false consciousness because it is where all consciousness converges–it is merely the official language of…
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 9:33 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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