Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and anthropology: The forgotten case of Gregory Bateson

This text aims to present the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the context of the relationship between the state, capitalism, and machines. Due to the multiplicity and rhizomatics that characterize the works of both French philosophers, the author also outlines the basic concepts important from the point of view of the discussed problem, such as abstract machines, devices, segmentation, deterritorialization, coding, axiomatics, rhizoma, micropolitics, and macropolitics. The perspective proposed in the works of Deleuze and Guattari escapes the well-known patterns of analysis in social sciences, which makes them an interesting look at the relationship between the state and capitalism.

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A Hundred Thousand Lines of Flight: A Machinic Introduction to the Nomad Thought and Scrumpled Geography of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d140421 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 421-439 ◽

Cited By ~ 65

Author(s):

Marcus A Doel

Keyword(s):

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Continuous Variation ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

The World ◽

Relational Space ◽

The Relationship ◽

Fundamental Shift ◽

The Way

What is space? What is spacing? And how does spacing itself hold together? The author pursues these questions, which continue to haunt and transfix geographers, by drawing upon the collaborative work of two exemplary thinkers: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. What emerges from such an encounter is a fundamental shift in the way space, place, and spacing are configured; a shift which will have enormous implications for anyone concerned with unfolding the relationship between society and space. Particular emphasis is placed on the radicalization of relations, of the spacing of relations, and of relational space. Such a radicalization effectively deconstructs the field of geography as we know it, and demands that we reconfigure both the world and our theoretical-practices ‘from the middle’. This yields a world of continuous variation, becoming, and chance, rather than one of constancy, being, and predictability; and it is populated solely by hæcceities, singularities, and events, strung together through joints, intervals, and folds. Accordingly, a fractal world of infinite disadjustment, destabilization, and disjointure is what is meant by the term ‘scrumpled geography’, and it constitutes the horizon on which one should situate deconstruction, postmodernism, and poststructuralism more generally. Unfolding the joints, intervals, and folds of such a world is precisely the task undertaken by Deleuze and Guattari. However, the author reworks their own undertaking by giving it a much more explicitly spatial inflexion and consistency. Thus, the paper not only clarifies the scrumpled geography embedded within the work of Deleuze and Guattari, it also demonstrates the revolutionary implications of a rigorously deconstructive and poststructuralist consideration of space, place, and spacing.

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Methodological and socio-philosophical aspects of nomadology: A critical view through the prism of the philosophy of everyday language

Aspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya ◽

10.17816/2072-2354.2020.20.4.19-25 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (7-8) ◽

pp. 19-25

Author(s):

Ivan V. Stepanov

Keyword(s):

Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Critical View ◽

Everyday Language ◽

Methodological Basis ◽

Philosophy And Religion ◽

Science Philosophy ◽

The Relationship

The works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are known to be the most popular ones in Europe and Russia among the works of post-structuralist philosophers of the second half of the XX century. In a project called nomadology, Deleuze and Guattari attempted to update questions about the relationship between philosophy and science, philosophy and religion, philosophy and politics, politics and war. The article analyzes the ways of setting and solving these issues. The methodological basis of the analysis serves the principles developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein in the framework of the philosophy of everyday language.

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Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.36 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 36-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Peter Sloterdijk

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Body Movement ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

The articles in this first installment of a series on choreography that considers the relationship between philosophy and dance interrogate conceptions of the body, movement, and language. Translated for the first time into English, the selection by José Gil reads the dancing body as paradoxical through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; and the chapter by Peter Sloterdijk examines modernity's impulse toward movement and posits a critical theory of mobilization. An interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi accompanies a meditation on his recent performance.

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SUBJETIVAÇÕES RIZOMÁTICAS E A IDEIA DE CORPO SEM ÓRGÃOS EM A FÚRIA DO CORPO, DE JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL

Revista Graphos ◽

10.22478/ufpb.1516-1536.2019v21n1.46549 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 261-275

Author(s):

Francisca Gilmara da Silva Almiro ◽

Roniê Rodrigues da Silva

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Brazilian Literature ◽

Body Without Organs ◽

The Way

O trabalho apresenta uma leitura da obra A Fúria do corpo, de João Gilberto Noll, a partir dos conceitos de Corpo sem Órgãos e Rizoma propostos pelos filósofos franceses Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. Nesse sentido, objetiva estudar a construção identitária das personagens da referida narrativa, estabelecendo uma associação com essas noções filosóficas, problematizando, sobretudo, a errância das personagens e a linguagem utilizada para a composição da obra. Ao longo da leitura crítica, destacaremos como o texto de Noll nos desafia à construção de sentidos através de uma subjetividade constituída a partir de linhas de fuga, ideia discutida pelos filósofos supracitados. Ao adentrarmos no texto ficcional pelo viés de tais linhas, é possível entender como as personagens percebem e vivem suas experimentações rizomáticas. Desse modo, não se pretende aqui atribuir sentidos fechados à narrativa, mas sugerir que o Corpo sem Órgãos e o Rizoma são características que representam as experiências errantes das personagens encontradas na escrita de Noll. Palavras-chave: Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. João Gilberto Noll. Identidade. Corpo sem Órgãos. Rizoma. THE RHIZOME AND THE IDEA OF BODY WITHOUT ORGANS IN THE FURY OF THE BODY, BY JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL Abstract: This paper presents a reading of The Fury of the Body, by João Gilberto Noll, based on the concepts of Body without Organs and Rhizome proposed by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It aims to study the characters’ identity construction, establishing an association with these philosophical notions, exploring, especially, the characters’ wandering nature and the language used in the composition of the work. Throughout this critical reading, emphasis will be given on the way Noll’s text challenge us to construct directions through a subjectivity built from escape lines, a concept defined by Deleuze and Guattari. By reading the narrative through these lenses, it is possible to understand how the characters perceive and live their rhizomatic trials. Thus, the intention here is not to attribute closed meanings to the narrative, but to suggest that the Body without Organs and the Rhizome are features that represent the characters’ wandering experiences in The Fury of the Body. Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian Literature. João Gilberto Noll. Identity. Body without Organs. Rhizome.

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Hybridising Knowledge: Some Considerations on the Epistemology of Contamination in the Works of Deleuze and Serres and Its Reception in Bio Art

Deleuze and Guattari Studies ◽

10.3366/dlgs.2020.0403 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 299-318

Author(s):

Amanda Núñez García

Keyword(s):

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Bruno Latour ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

The Real ◽

Hybrid Processes ◽

Michel Serres ◽

Interdisciplinary Nature ◽

Creative Production

In this article I investigate the necessarily interdisciplinary nature of our contemporaneity, from the perspective of works by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour and Michel Serres. While we often find that academia, society and governments push us towards interdisciplinarity, it is also true that those same institutions and powers (and therefore the epistemological systems on which they are based), distance us from that purpose. Opposing this aporetic situation we come up against the Deleuzian concept of ‘contamination’, or the well-known ‘science of Venus’ concept of Michel Serres. In doing so, we attempt ‘to put the tracing back on the map’, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, and try to see the epistemological becomings that we find in contemporary culture. The main indicators which we use to study these contaminations and hybridisations are cinema and Bio Art. In both cases we observe that the real creative production is closer to ‘contamination’ than to the ‘purification’ and deletion of metabolic and hybrid processes criticised by Bruno Latour.

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Materiality, Writing, Subjectivity

Concepts and Transformation ◽

10.1075/cat.3.3.03mos ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 207-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ingunn Moser ◽

John Law

Keyword(s):

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Story Telling ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Physically Disabled

We start the paper by reviewing the theory of desire developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Their theory of desire is complex in narrative terms, but it is, or so we suggest, overly romantic. It doesn't really explore the ways in which different performances of desire intersect with one another. We then proceed by telling stories from the life of a severely physically disabled person, Liv. These are stories to do with desire, and they are intended to show (with Deleuze and Guattari) that desires are discursively complex, and that they are produced in specific materially heterogeneous circumstances. But the stories are also intended to explore the intersections of different kinds of desires — and indeed the ways in which they produce one another. We conclude by returning to the question of story-telling, and press the view, touched on above, that single stories about persons (or their contexts) are unable to catch the ways in which different stories intersect to produce personal and social realities.

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Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sociology

Sociological Theory ◽

10.1111/0735-2751.00042 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 52-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

William Bogard

Keyword(s):

Social Theory ◽

Social Life ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Molecular Level ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Social Structures ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Organic Form ◽

The Subject

Although the focus of their work was rarely explicitly sociological, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari developed concepts that have important and often profound implications for social theory and practice. Two of these, sense and segmentarity, provide us with entirely new ways to view sociological problems of meaning and structure. Deleuze conceives sense independently of both agency and signification. That is, sense is neither the manifestation of a communicating subject nor a structure of language—it is noncorporeal, impersonal, and prelinguistic, in his words, a “pure effect or event.” With Guattari, Deleuze notes that it is not a question of how subjects produce social structures, but how a “machinics of desire” produces subjects. In Deleuze and Guattari, desire is not defined as a want or a lack, but as a machinery of forces, flows, and breaks of energy. The functional stratification we witness in social life is only the molar effect of a more primary segmentation of desire that occurs at the molecular level, at the level of bodies. In Deleuze and Guattari, bodies are not just human bodies, but “anorganic” composites or mixtures, organic form itself being a mode of the body's subjectification. The problem of the subject, and thus of the constitution of society, is first a problem of how the sense of bodies is produced through the assembly of desiring-machines. The subject, we could say, is the actualization of desire on the incorporeal surface of bodies.

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Mutant Enunciations

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.17 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 17-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

André Lepecki

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Body Movement ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

The articles in this first installment of a series on choreography that considers the relationship between philosophy and dance interrogate conceptions of the body, movement, and language. Translated for the first time into English, the selection by José Gil reads the dancing body as paradoxical through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; and the chapter by Peter Sloterdijk examines modernity's impulse toward movement and posits a critical theory of mobilization. An interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi accompanies a meditation on his recent performance.

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A literatura de Caio Fernando Abreu como máquina de guerra

Scriptorium ◽

10.15448/2526-8848.2018.1.31475 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 73

Author(s):

Dhemersson Warly Santos Costa ◽

Maria Dos Remédios De Brito

Keyword(s):

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Military Power ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Philosophical Concept ◽

War Machine ◽

The World ◽

The Military

A máquina de guerra é um conceito criado pelos filósofos Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, que não tem relação com o poder bélico de um Estado, mas, sobretudo, é uma potência inventiva, imbricada em um nomadismo, capaz de fissurar as organizações da máquina estatal (sedentária), abalando suas estruturas, escapando dos sistemas dominantes, inventado linhas de fugas. O nômade, inventor da máquina de guerra, cria para si outros modos de habitar no mundo, inventa seu próprio território, vagando por trajetos indefinidos. Nesta perspectiva, a intenção desta proposta é tencionar ressonâncias entre o conceito filosófico de máquina de guerra e a literatura de Caio Fernando Abreu. Parte-se do pressuposto de que a máquina de guerra compõe o elemento (des) arranjador de toda a obra do autor, uma verdadeira máquina literária que explode em linhas de fuga por todos os lados, declarando a guerra dos sexos, dos desejos, das sexualidades, das identidades. *** The Literature of Caio Fernando Abreu as a war machine ***The war machine is a concept created by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who has nothing to do with the military power of a State, but above all, it is an inventive power, imbricated in a nomadism, capable of fissuring the organizations of the machine state (sedentary), shaking its structures, escaping from the dominant systems, invented escape lines. The nomad, inventor of the war machine, creates for himself other ways of inhabiting the world, fashions his own territory, wandering on indefinite paths. The intention of this proposal is to consider resonances between the philosophical concept of war machine and the literature of Caio Fernando Abreu. It is assumed that the war machine composes the element (dis) arranger of all the author’s work, a true literary machine that explodes in lines of escape on all sides, declaring the war of the sexes, the desires, the sexualities, identities.Keywords: war machine; Caio Fernando de Abreu; Deleuze and Guattari; literatura.

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