BACK ON CIRCE'S ISLAND

Ramus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 213-235
Author(s):  
Michiel van Veldhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Physical Degradation

The reception of Circe's island in and through Classical Antiquity has largely focused on the enigmatic sorceress herself. The long literary chain of interpretive topoi—Circe the witch, the whore, the temptress—stretches from Apollonius, Virgil, Ovid, and Dio Chrysostom to Spenser, Calderón, Joyce, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. Her role as Odysseus’ benefactor, so unmistakable in Homer, is soon forgotten; to Virgil, she is above all dea saeva, (‘the savage goddess’, Aen. 7.19). One distinguishing feature of Circe and her reception is the focus on representation: the enchantment of Circe, as Greta Hawes puts it, is above all a study in allegory. From the moment Circe put a spell on Odysseus’ companions, transforming them into animals in Book 10 of the Odyssey, Circe has invited analogical reasoning, centered on what the transformation from one being into another represents. More often than not, this transformation is interpreted according to a dualist thinking about humans and animals: subjects are transformed from one being into another being, thus representing some moral or physical degradation. This article, by contrast, concentrates on Circe's island through the lens of becoming-animal, the concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the tenth plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, ‘1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible…’. I explicate the concept of becoming-animal by applying it to a Deleuzian encounter with Circe's island, both in its ancient articulations and in its various receptions, including H.G. Wells's science fiction novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

scholarly journals From Anti-Oedipus to Anti-Hype: A Critique of Hyperstition

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future

The article describes the current state of left-wing post-Deleuzian philosophy, which is going through a period of obsession with the production of fictions. The authors argue that science fiction is today often mobilized as a tool for imagining a future that is incommensurable with the current late capitalist order. However, when trying to imagine a post-capitalist future, contemporary left-wing philosophers tend to look to the past for inspiration, a maneuver which only exacerbates the “exhaustion of the future,” that has retrofuturism as its cultural correlate. Based on this, the authors suggest that philosophical instrumentalization of science fiction may result in a distinct form of intellectual escapism. The article argues that in this context, special attention should be paid to the concept of hyperstition, which has arisen under the influence of science fiction narratives and is embedded in current popular rhetoric about hacking the future. The authors point out that the way hyperstition functions has a resemblance to marketing mechanisms, and they suggest that it corresponds to what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari called an unconscious representation or fake image. The article subjects hyperstition to a critical analysis in which the authors show that the genealogy of hyperstition as a practice of programming reality through fictions stems from the ideas of William S. Burroughs. Burroughs set out to develop new ways of linguistic infection and modeling human behavior by means of his cutup technique. This approach blurs the distinction between reality and fiction. Some members of the CCRU transplanted Burroughs’ ideas to the theoretical soil that Deleuze and Guattari had tilled. Hyperstition has been reborn in the CCRU’s legacy project of left-wing accelerationism, which redirects the idea of self-fulfilling fiction toward developing a non-deterministic concept of progress. Pointing to the ineffectiveness of hyperstition as a tool for socio-political change, the authors propose abandoning Anti-Oedipus in favor of Anti-Hype.

"Si te dicen que caí" (1973), de Juan Marsé: usos, modulaciones y funcionalidad del discurso polifónico en el entramado rizomático de las aventis

2018 ◽  
pp. 485-505
Author(s):  
Fernando N. Valcheff
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Juan Marse ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Textual Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Proposal

El presente trabajo se propone indagar acerca de las estrategias textuales que configuran la novela Si te dicen que caí (1973), del escritor español Juan Marsé, con el objetivo de identificar cuáles son los procedimientos y técnicas narrativas que le permiten al autor diseñar una obra en la que proliferan múltiples puntos de vista de la mano con un perspectivismo plural y abierto. Para analizar este entramado, buscaremos recuperar y poner en funcionamiento los planteos de Mijail Bajtín acerca del dialogismo y la polifonía en Problemas de la poética de Dostoievsky (1986) haciéndolos dialogar con la propuesta de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari en Rizoma (1972), así como con los aportes críticos de otros autores que trabajaron la obra de Marsé. En última instancia, nos centraremos en el estudio de tres aspectos cruciales para la novela: el rol de las aventis en la trama narrativa, el despliegue de juegos autoreflexivos y de máscaras metaficcionales, y las referencias intra e intertextuales que pueblan el universo de la obra, con el propósito último de complementar y enriquecer los estudios acerca de la novela disponibles en la actualidad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                This paper seeks to inquire about the textual strategies that configure the novel Si te dicen que caí (1973), by Spanish writer Juan Marsé, with the gold of identifying which procedures and narrative techniques allow the author to design a piece of work in which multiple points of view are in constant proliferation. In order to analyze this literary scheme, we will recover the considerations by Mijail Bajtin relating to polyphony and dialogism in Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics (1986) making them dialogue with the theoretical proposal by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Rhizome (1972), and also with the critical contributions of other authors that analyzed Marse’s work. Finally, we will study three crucial aspects of the novel: the functioning of the Aventis in the narrative plot, the deploying of self-reflexiveness and metafictional masks, and the intertextual and intratextual references that populate the novel’s universe, with the ultimate purpose of complementing and enriching the studies about the novel available at the moment.

ONE OR MANY MILITES? MILITARY MULTIPLICITY IN LATIN EPIC

Ramus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Hannah-Marie Chidwick
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Latin Epic ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Since Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari emerged into the realm of Continental philosophy in the late twentieth century, the pair have sustained a prominent and influential presence in the fields of cultural studies, politics and sociology, also literary, artistic and cinematic scholarship, spurred on by the appropriation of the arts in Deleuze and Guattari's own work. The contributions to this special edition bring to light how the rubble-strewn textual field of Classical antiquity also ineludibly invites a methodological framework informed by Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. By its contemporary nature, the Classical ‘canon’ is a warzone of competing translations, fragments and fragmentary orders, de- and re-constructions, bearing a torrid resemblance to the flattened and interconnected plane of existence described in Deleuze and Guattari's work. The pair draw from multiple avenues of academic exploration and encourage the seed-like spread of their multifarious ideas. This article makes a case for employing one concept in particular as a practice for reading Classical texts: ‘multiplicity’.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

O Pequeno e o Grande Emílio: elementos para pensar a pedagogia e a produção de subjetividades

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (39) ◽  
pp. 155-184
Author(s):  
Bruno Gonçalves Borges
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari

O problema que pretende responder este texto pode ser resumido ao questionamento acerca do processo que levou a pedagogia a se tornar uma peça indispensável de uma engenhosa estrutura de produção de subjetividades na era capitalista. Para tanto, esse problema ganha contornos a partir do esboço de um cenário dual, em que há de um lado, um Pequeno Emílio, originário da obra rousseauniana , desprendido do desejo de formulação de um padrão subjetivo, ainda que aspectos de um naturalismo liberal sejam pertinentes a ele; e, de outro, um Grande Emílio, produto de uma “pequena”, mas incessante e, talvez, pretensiosa resposta ao problema do governo de si e dos outros por meio dos usos de uma pedagogia científica e suas variações, encerrada na ideia de formação plena de um corpo social que reduz a multiplicidade aos níveis economicamente produtivos. Ao propor a abordagem em questão, este texto lança mão de uma análise ao estilo esquizo dos filósofos franceses Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari de textos importantes para a filosofia da educação e da própria pedagogia em função de encontrar suporte para os elementos de uma produção subjetiva em curso que passa pela pedagogia.

scholarly journals Becoming Child and Sustainability—The Kindergarten Teacher as Agency Mobiliser for Sustainability through Keeping the Concept of the Child in Play

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5588
Author(s):  
Anita Tvedt Crisostomo ◽  
Anne B. Reinertsen
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Kindergarten Teacher ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Teacher Roles ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
And Function ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Power Position

In this article, we seek to theorize the role of the kindergarten teacher as an agency mobiliser for sustainability through keeping the concept of the child in play, ultimately envisioning the child as a knowledgeable and connectable collective. This implies a non-dialectical politics of multiplicity ready to support and join a creative pluralism of educational organization and teacher roles for sustainability. Comprising friction zones between actual and virtual multiplicities that replace discursive productions of educational policies with enfoldedness, relations between bodies and becomings. This changes the power, position and function of language in and for agency and change. Not through making the child a constructivist change-agent through language but through opening up the possibilities for teachers to explore relations between language and matter, nature and culture and what might be produced collectively and individually. We go via the concepts of agencement expanding on the concept of agency, and conceptual personae directing the becoming of the kindergarten teacher. Both concepts informed by the transformational pragmatics of Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) and Félix Guattari (1930–1992). The overarching contribution of this article is therefore political and pragmatic and concerns the constitution of subjectivity and transformative citizenships for sustainability in inter- and intra-generational perspectives.

Allegories of Creativity and Territory

PMLA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Bartra
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Death Of God

Ecology defines territory as an area defended by an organism or a group of similar organisms with the purpose of pairing off, nesting, resting, and feeding. The defense of this space frequently brings about an aggressive behavior toward intruders and the marking of boundaries by means of repulsive chemical odors. Human beings, though they lack a precise ecological niche and are capable of adapting themselves to diverse spaces, also define territorial limits, from which emanate particular aromas that identify certain social groups. This is a question not of chemical perfumes but rather of codified cultural effusions that fill these groups with pride, even though they may, on occasion, strike others as repulsive. Many years ago, theories established that modern society impels a relentless process of deterritorialization and decodification, a process that tends to be ill regarded by ecologists, the populist left, fundamentalists, and conservatives. The proponents of this idea in the 1970s, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, stated in their renowned but forgotten book Anti-Oedipus (1972) that this process would end in the liberation of “desiring machines” and the dismantling of the oppressive state, in the same way that the death of God announced by Nietzsche was to be a liberating catastrophe. It is curious that these theories should end up hermetically codified and entombed beneath the seven seals of postmodernism and deconstruction, in the territory of an insufferable and unnecessary jargon.

scholarly journals Mapas, dança, desenhos: a cartografia como método de pesquisa em educação

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Ranniery Moreira de Oliveira ◽  
Marlucy Alves Paraíso
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari

Escutar o universo filosófico de Gilles Deleuze e sua parceria com Félix Guattari e registrar possibilidades da cartografia como método de pesquisa em educação são os objetivos centrais deste artigo. É no trabalho sobre as linhas, no qual estão em jogo as metamorfoses da vida, que a cartografia se faz. A cartografia assume-se implicada na criação e na invenção, ao pensar uma pesquisa das multiplicidades que faz gerar multiplicidades. Traçar linhas, mapear territórios, acompanhar movimentos de desterritorialização, promover rotas de escape são alguns dos procedimentos que este estudo pretende registrar como possibilidades de pesquisar em educação. Discutindo a produtividade dessa coreografia do desassossego, esboçamos quatro movimentos que denominamos: olhares-ciganos, noite de núpcias, pintar um quadro, linhas bailarinas.

scholarly journals As leituras da Commedia dantesca

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-85
Author(s):  
Fernanda Moro Cechinel
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Italo Calvino ◽  
Felix Guattari

Quando uma obra literária é lançada, a editora que o faz e, propriamente, o autor que a escreve esperam que ela ganhe os devidos louros da crítica e, consequentemente, alcance os méritos junto ao público leitor, mas isso só mesmo o tempo poderá dizer. Para aquelas que atingem o sucesso, as nomeamos de cânones ou clássicos. E a Commedia de Dante Alighieri é um exemplo. Desde sua escrita, no século XIV, até hoje, a obra dantesca inspirou diversos escritores mundo afora. O presente trabalho pretende elencar algumas obras, em poesia, prosa e também no cinema, que surgiram a partir do poema italiano. Importante deixar claro que não pretendemos aqui esgotar as obras, pois acredita-se que, ao longo de sete séculos, haja uma lista extremamente extensa de publicações que tiveram como ponto de partida a Commedia. Como referencial teórico para este artigo, utilizar-se-á, principalmente, a obra de Italo Calvino e a de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, com a teoria dos rizomas.

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