scholarly journals Deleuze and Guattaris Immanent Plane and Becoming in a Fairy Tale

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 233-242
Author(s):  
Zainab Akram ◽  
Faria Saeed Khan ◽  
Samreen Zaheer

The entities exist on dual planes, on the physical or transcendental plane, in forms, and the philosophical or immanent plane that only considered intensity and movement of the objects. The present study is grounded on the notions of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) who considered immanent plane to be affecting and transforming the indulged bodies through process of becoming. The present study, through thematic analysis, investigated a few instances from the character of Alex Bailey, from, The Enchantress Returns (2013). The findings depicted that becoming was a constant process. Additionally, the becoming bodies or objects could be physical, imaginary, psychological or phenomenal. The transformations through becoming were not physical and did not appear on transcendent plane. Moreover, the affected bodies depicted the difference in their thoughts and actions.

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Le Thi Bich Thuy

Sharing the sources of Southeast Asian folklore and folk literature, magical fairy tales of Vietnam and Laos have many similarities in a motif of building orphan characters. Applying structural theory in fairy tales with immutability and changes, the structure of the story is described by a series of events “signs help to make a schematic comparison of the structure of various tales,” (Propp, 1968, p.25) the article studies the magical fairy tale Tam and Cam of Vietnam and the Golden Turtle of Laos to see the similarities and differences in the motif of building orphan characters. The similarities in the motif of building orphan characters such as: story structure, character system, incarnation motif, unique object motif, magical force motif show the common cultural space of the region. However, the difference in the situation of the story and the use of magical forces and elements in the story show the customs, belief characteristics, artistic tastes and cultural identity of each nation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis de Miranda

In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts that: ‘Whether we are individuals or groups, we are made of lines’ ( Deleuze and Parnet 2007 : 124). In A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari), Deleuze calls these kinds of ‘lifelines’ or ‘lines of flesh’: break line (or segmental line, or molar line), crack line (or molecular line) and rupture line (also called line of flight) ( Deleuze and Guattari 2004a : 22). We will explain the difference between these three lines and how they are related to the ‘soul’. We will also explain how a singular individual or group can arise from the play of the lines. Eventually, we will introduce the concept of ‘Creal’ to develop the Deleuzian figure of the ‘Anomal’, the so(u)rcerer.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Mohd Nor Adzhar Ibrahim ◽  
Roshimah Shamsudin

The hadith mawdu’i (thematic hadith) terminology is widely used in contemporary hadith discourse. However, there are confusions in understanding its true concept since several other terms are associated with it namely dirasah al-mawdhu‘iyyah min al-hadith (thematic analysis based on hadith) and sharh al-mawdhu‘i li al-hadith (thematic explanation based on hadith). As such, the purpose of this paper is to study difference opinions amongst the contemporary hadith scholars in comprehending the concept of thematic hadith that gives rise to various definition and concepts. Literature review method based on qualitative research through content analysis design were fully engaged in the data collection as well as data analysis processes. All the definitions and concept of thematic hadith presented by the contemporary hadith scholars in their academic writings were gathered and analyzed to produce a comprehensive depiction.  Based on the existing definitions, the findings of this study illustrate that the present-day thematic hadith researchers’ conceptions are split into two camps. The first is the group that deduces thematic hadith as a study upon collection of hadith or upon one particular hadith with a specific theme while the second group infers thematic hadith as thematic lectures. The findings also demonstrate that the difference in understanding thematic hadith between the two groups are from the guidelines and steps in conducting a research. This is the reason why dirasah al-mawdhu‘iyyah min al-hadith is focused on the technical aspect of the initial hadith research such as takhrij (retrieval of hadith) or identifying mukhtalif (contradictions) and so on. While sharh al-mawdhu‘i li al-hadith concentrates on constructive research in depicting a clear picture of the themes that contained in the hadith. Accordingly, the integration between dirasah al-mawdhu‘iyyah min al-hadith and sharh al-mawdhu‘i li al-hadith would produce a holistic research on thematic hadith.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Titin Setiartin

<p><em>The DRTA strategy is basically designed for group reading teaching. This strategy has received great attention from language teachers over the last two decades because of its ease and emphasis on developing high-minded processes. In addition, DRTA involves an active understanding and exchange of ideas among learners. Effective also in directing the social dynamics of learning groups of learners. Individual and group predictions about the content of reading are developed on the basis of individual backgrounds and information contained in the text. This strategy requires teachers to create hypotheses and make predictions about the content of the reading. Group dynamics will generate predictions and provide opportunities for learners to link these predictions with reading content. The purpose of this study is to describe the effectiveness of DRTA strategy in reading comprehension learning; describe the improvement of the ability of learners in reading fairy tales. The result of the research can be known based on the gain index of the initial and final test of the experimental class and control class, there is an increasing difference between the learning by using DRTA strategy and the learning using conventional strategy from percentage gain improvement in the experimental class higher than the control class. While the gain index of the experimental class is 0.57 (including the medium category) with the lesson using the DRTA strategy and for the control class with the gain index of 0.45 (including the medium category) with the reading comprehension learning conventional strategy. From the difference of gain, index can be concluded that there is a difference of understanding between learners who learn by using DRTA strategy with students who study conventionally. Between the two experimental classes, the average value of learners who learn to use DRTA is higher than that of learners who learn to use conventional learning. Constructivists view that learning is a process of assimilating and connecting the experience or material learned with the understanding it has for the understanding to develop.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>


Author(s):  
Rossella Di Rosa

      L’elaborato si propone di analizzare il pensiero ecologico di Anna Maria Ortese, concentrandosi su Alonso e i visionari, testo che, seppur trascurato dal pubblico e dalla critica, può essere considerato il manifesto dell’intera poetica ortesiana. Il credo dell’autrice è infatti rivolto ad annullare la differenza tra umano e non umano, a combattere per l’inclusione dell’animale nel circolo etico, a difendere i diritti di tutti gli esseri viventi e non viventi, alla ricerca di una forma di pensiero più inclusiva e che si fondi su nuovi valori come l’amore, la pietà, la partecipazione al dolore e il “soccorso” a tutte le creature e alla Terra stessa. Propongo di rileggere Alonso e i visionari da una prospettiva ecologica al fine di dimostrare non solo come l’autrice partecipi al dibattito su “La questione animale” al centro degli studi sull’animalità, ma come anticipi spesso riflessioni e considerazioni di filosofi e pensatori del Novecento, tra cui Agamben, Cavalieri, Derrida, Deleuze e Guattari. Abstract      This essay aims to analyze Anna Maria Ortese’s ecological thought, which significantly distinguishes her last novel, Alonso e i visionari. I believe that the novel, which has been overlooked both by critics and by readers, can be considered as the manifesto of the author’s poetics. Indeed, it summarizes the writer’s tenets, devoted to annulling the difference between human and nonhuman world, to struggling for the animal’s inclusion in the moral community, to proposing an understanding of intelligence that combines reason, compassion, and care for both human and nonhuman beings as well as for the entire planet Earth itself. I suggest reading the novel from an ecocritical perspective to illustrate how Ortese anticipates Braidotti’s posthuman thought, and provides original theoretical frameworks and criteria for exploring fundamental issues of “The Animal Question” even before such themes commanded the attention of prominent twentieth-century philosophers such as Agamben, Cavalieri, Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari. Resumen      Este ensayo analiza el pensamiento ecológico de Anna Maria Ortese y examina la novela Alonso e i visionari, que puede ser considerada como el manifiesto de la obra ortesiana, aunque la obra no tuvo gran éxito de público ni de crítica en el momento de su publicación. El credo de la autora pretende invalidar la diferencia entre humano y no humano, luchar por la inclusión de los animales en el círculo ético, defender los derechos de todos los seres, buscar una tipología de pensamiento más inclusiva y que se base no solo en la razón sino en nuevos valores como el amor, la piedad, la participación en el dolor y la ayuda a todas las criaturas que lo necesiten, lo que la autora llama emblemáticamente “soccorso”. Mi trabajo sugiere una lectura de la novela desde una perspectiva ecocrítica para mostrar que Ortese participa en el debate conocido como “La cuestión de los animales,” y de la misma manera, anticipa el pensamiento de Braidotti sobre el posthumano y algunas consideraciones de destacados filósofos del siglo XX, como Agamben, Cavalieri, Derrida, Deleuze y Guattari.


Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook

Perhaps the best way to approach the relationship between Deleuze and Agamben is to adopt a method from Deleuze and Guattari’s late philosophy: the conceptual persona.1 Here philosophical proper names do not stand for biographies or persons but for orientations or maps of thinking. Descartes, for example, enables a whole tradition of Cartesian dualism, even for those who neither read nor reference his work. There are some occasions when Agamben’s history of thought also considers proper names less as labels for specific historical individuals, and more as markers of a certain style or distribution of thinking. His recent The Use of Bodies, for example, sees Spinoza as a way of coming to terms with the relation between essence and existence (between what a being is, and that a being is) (UB 160). The names Agamben draws upon are not so much focused upon for their singular greatness, but because they provide a way for thinking about what Agamben sees as the ongoing problem of the singular existence of an individuated being, and then the way that being is identified in language. One might also think of this as the difference between the simple event that something is, and then the identifiable what of the thing. In What is Philosophy? Deleuze and Guattari treat proper names as conceptual personae, suggesting – as Agamben does – that philosophical problems (and the names that attach to them) are not academic exercises of a specific discipline, but have to do with the very possibility of thinking (in domains well beyond philosophy).


2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail

This paper is an attempt to explicate the relationship between Spinozist expressionism and philosophical constructivism in Deleuze's work through the concept of immanent causality. Deleuze finds in Spinoza a philosophy of immanent causality used to solve the problem of the relation between substance, attribute and mode as an expression of substance. But, when he proceeds to take up this notion of immanent causality found in Spinoza in Difference and Repetition, Deleuze instead inverts it into a modal one such that the identity of substance may be said only of the difference of the modes. Complicating this further, Deleuze and Guattari claim in A Thousand Plateaus that substance, attribute, and mode are each, themselves, multiplicities. What is Philosophy? takes up immanent causality once again, this time through a constructivist lens aimed at resolving the question of the relation between philosophical multiplicities: ‘plane,’ ‘persona,’ and ‘concept.’ By following the different formulations of immanent causality in these works this essay hopes to discover the relationship between Spinozist expressionism and philosophical constructivism in Deleuze's work.


2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 4 (Issue 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maira Qaddos ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Shabbir Sarwar ◽  
Maham Zahid Khan

In almost every ad for job for female candidates, it is mentioned that required females are expected to have pleasing personality, good communication skills and well-groomed appearance which is quite contradictory with Islamic philosophy of disciplining female bodies as Islam discourages objectification of women. This paper is an attempt to explore the gendered discourses prevailing in various organizations to discipline female bodies into docile ones for sexual appeal in the organizations. The study is qualitative in nature. For data collection mixed method of interviews (n=100) and thematic analysis of job advertisement (n=100) is done. Foucault’s perspective of disciplining is used as theoretical framework for the study as it will help in drawing the difference between requirements for disciplining female bodies for job hunting vs. Islamic philosophy of disciplining female bodies in a Muslim country like Pakistan. Analysis of the data gathered by thematic analysis of advertisements and 100 interviews was conducted by coding the data into various themes. The study concludes that certain disciplinary techniques like no veil, heavy make over, trendy dresses, high heels are expected from females to be selected for the job which are contradictory with Islamic philosophy. Islam doesn’t restrict females from working but it wants them to be in proper fully covered dresses so that they may be respected. However, these organizations want to use females only as sex symbols. This practice should be condemned to provide women with an opportunity to make better use of their capabilities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-469
Author(s):  
Dariusz Nowacki

Artykuł przynosi omówienie trzech powieści, w których pojawia się postać Jakuba Szeli i wątek rabacji galicyjskiej. Są to Baśń o wężowym sercu albo wtóre słowo o Jakóbie Szeli (2019) Radka Raka, Deutsch dla średnio zaawansowanych (2019) Macieja Hena oraz Galicyanie Stanisława Aleksandra Nowaka (2016). Punktem wyjścia rozważań jest uwaga sformułowana przez Przemysława Czaplińskiego, który bunt chłopski z lutego 1846 roku rozpoznał jako aktualne dziedzictwo, mogące zasilać dzisiejsze formy protestu przeciwko niesprawiedliwości i wyzyskowi. Autor artykułu rozważa, czy rzeczywiście współcześni prozaicy, którzy na kartach swoich powieści ożywili postać Jakuba Szeli, odwołują się do wspomnianej tradycji, czy Szela jest dla nich ikoną buntownika i zarazem wzorem mściciela. Wynik tego sprawdzianu jest negatywny: autor dowodzi, że w grę wchodzi wyłącznie popkulturowa lub quasi-popkulturowa obecność Szeli (w literaturze artystycznej), luźno związana z szerszą debatą na temat „kwestii chłopskiej” czy tak zwanym zwrotem plebejskim w polskiej kulturze, jaki najmocniej uwidocznił się w latach 2015–2016. Autor twierdzi, że omówione przez niego utwory nie mają ambicji „rozrachunkowych”; nie upomniano się w nich o rzekomo wyparte czy niesłusznie zapomniane dziedzictwo chłopskiego oporu i buntu. Tym samym ujawniona została rozbieżność między postulatami historyków i socjologów, którzy w ostatnich latach odnowili namysł nad położeniem chłopów pańszczyźnianych w duchu tak zwanej pedagogiki wstydu, a dzisiejszą praktyką literacką Presence of Szela: Three Examples from the New Prose The article presents three novels in which the person of Jakub Szela and motif of the Galician slaughter appear. These are Fairy Tale about the Snake’s Heart or Another Word about Jakub Szela (2019) by Radek Rak, Deutsch for Intermediates (2019) by Maciej Hen and Galicians (2016) by Stanisław Aleksander Nowak. The starting point for the considerations is the remark of Stanisław Aleksander Nowak who acknowledged the 1846 peasant revolt as a relevant legacy that could support present-day forms of protest against injustice and exploitation. The author of the article examines if the modern prose writers who brought the person of Jakub Szela back to life in their novels truly invoke the aforementioned tradition and if Szela is a rebel icon and an avenger model for them. The result of said examination is negative: the author proves that only pop-cultural or quasi-pop-cultural presence of Szela (in artistic literature) comes into question, which is loosely tied to the broader discussion on “the peasant question” – the so-called plebeian turn in Polish culture, which became most visible in the years of 2015–2016. The author argues that the discussed works of literature do not have the ambitions to deal with the past; the allegedly renounced or unjustly forgotten legacy of peasant resistance and rebellion weren’t claimed. Thereby the difference between the demands of the historians and sociologists who reflected anew on the situation of serfs in spirit of the so-called pedagogy of shame and today’s literary practice was revealed.


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