Film Analysis and the Symbolic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Radner ◽  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Fritz Lang ◽  
The Real ◽  
Michael Curtiz ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
The Difference

Raymond Bellour explains the difference between Christian Metz’s semiological approach and his own approach to film analysis, and the degrees by which he became disenchanted with psychoanalysis, despite his debt to Lacan’s notion of the imaginary, the real, and the symbolic. With reference to his analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, he proceeds to comment on how he evolved such key notions as “symbolic blockage” (“le blocage symbolique”) and “the undiscoverable text” (also referred to as “the unattainable text” or “le texte introuvable”). He then describes the influence of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and his interest in American cinema and filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Curtiz, and Fritz Lang.

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

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.

scholarly journals Psycholinguistic Characteristics of Autists and Their Prototypes in American Cinema Discourse (Based on the Films "Rain Man" and "The Real Rain Man")

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
L. Ikalyuk ◽  
O. Kuzmyn
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Savant Syndrome ◽  
The Difference

The article focuses on the study of the main characteristics of people with autisticspectrum disorders. The comparison between the famous American savant, Kim Peek, and hisprototype in the American cinema discourse has been made on the basis of the films Rain Man andThe Real Rain Man. With the help of psychographological analysis, the speech of the man and hisfictional prototype has been examined. The analysis showed that the difference between the twopersons is indubitable, which can be explained by the fact that the savant syndrome was caused bydifferent disorders.

scholarly journals The Difference Between Science and Philosophy: the Spinoza-Boyle Controversy Revisited

Paragraph ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
British Scientist ◽  
The Difference

This article examines the seventeenth-century debate between the Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza and the British scientist Robert Boyle, with a view to explicating what the twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze considers to be the difference between science and philosophy. The two main themes that are usually drawn from the correspondence of Boyle and Spinoza, and used to polarize the exchange, are the different views on scientific methodology and on the nature of matter that are attributed to each correspondent. Commentators have tended to focus on one or the other of these themes in order to champion either Boyle or Spinoza in their assessment of the exchange. This paper draws upon the resources made available by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their major work What is Philosophy?, in order to offer a more balanced account of the exchange, which in its turn contributes to our understanding of Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the difference between science and philosophy.

scholarly journals A máquina do Real: “O cão sem plumas”, de João Cabral de Melo Neto, como agenciamento / The Real-Machine: “O cão sem plumas”, by João Cabral de Melo Neto, as Assemblage

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Bruno Henrique Alvarenga Souza
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Machine

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é realizar uma leitura do poema de João Cabral de Melo Neto, “O cão sem plumas”, utilizando-se de ferramentas teóricas provenientes da filosofia de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. O operador central da análise é o conceito de agenciamento e seus desdobramentos (desterritorialização, ritornelo etc.), ligado à noção de poema como máquina, postulada tanto pelo próprio Cabral quanto por alguns de seus principais comentadores. A consequência é a compreensão da poesia de Cabral como uma grande experimentação, que foge a qualquer tentativa de redução interpretativa, e o entendimento de que a linguagem poética pode exercer-se como pura literalidade, aproximando-se de um pensamento imanente irredutível a qualquer forma de transcendência.Palavras-chave: poesia; literalidade; agenciamento.Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to read the poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto, “O cão sem plumas”, using theoretical tools from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The central operator of the analysis is the concept of assemblage and its consequences (deterritorialization, ritornelo, etc.), linked to the notion of poem as a machine, postulated both by Cabral himself and by some of his main commentators. The consequence is the understanding of Cabral’s poetry as a great experimentation, which avoids any attempt at interpretative reduction, and the understanding that poetic language can be exercised as pure literality, approaching an immanent thought irreducible in any way of transcendence.Keywords: poetry; literality; assemblage.

Introduction: The Problem of a Deleuzian Ethics

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Cheri Lynne Carr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The United States ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imminent Danger

Neo- and proto-fascisms have begun re-emerging in ultranationalist, authoritarian, and extremist consolidations of power across the globe. Even in the United States, where fascism was long dismissed as an historical or exclusively European problem, the popular emergence of rhetoric related to fascist ideology over the past decade has inspired widespread comparison and a new sense of the real, imminent danger that fascism poses. As Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari point out in Anti-Oedipus, fascism was not just a ‘bad moment’ or an ‘historical error’: fascism has yet to be overcome (AO 29–30). Why this is the case and what we might do about it are the frame for understanding Deleuze’s Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life. It begins with the argument that an account of the endurance of fascism would be better served by emphasising not how different ‘those people’ who support fascism are from ‘us’, who do not, but rather that at the basis of fascism’s allure for us all is the desire for our own repression. If such desire is constitutive of the productive cycle of desire itself, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, any ethics that hopes to create spaces of freedom must have anti-fascism at its heart.

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.

ANALYTICAL INDICATOR. ANALYSIS OF THE REAL STATE OF DYNAMICS OF MORTALITY OF THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA FROM MALIGNANT TUMORS AND CHANGES IN ITS STRUCTURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Merabishvili
Keyword(s):  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Specific Weight ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Age Composition ◽  
The Real ◽  
Indicator Analysis ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Real State

The mortality rate is one of the most important criteria for assessing the health of the population. However, it is important to use analytical indicators correctly, especially when evaluating time series. The value of the “gross” mortality is closely linked with a specific weight of persons of elderly and senile ages. All international publications (WHO, IARC, territorial cancer registers) assess the dynamics of morbidity and mortality only by standardized indicators that eliminate the difference in the age composition of the compared population groups. In Russia, from 1960 to 2017, the share of people of retirement age has increased more than 2 times. The structure of mortality from malignant tumors has changed dramatically. The paper presents the dynamics of gross and standardized mortality rates from malignant tumors in Russia and in all administrative territories. Shows the real success of the Oncology service. The medium-term interval forecast until 2025 has been calculated.

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 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.

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