scholarly journals Thinking with the world – to explore the becoming of phenomena

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bosse Bergstedt
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Limit Values ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Self Differentiation

This article discusses how it is possible to think with the world in educational research. How can this thinking with the world generate knowledge about the becoming of phenomena? To answer this question this paper undertakes a diffractive reading of selected texts from Niels Bohr, Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Donna Haraway, and Michel Serres. This diffractive reading reveals that the world becomes with itself contributing to an internal principle or an inner self-differentiation. This means that all phenomena can be understood as related to the world in one way or another. This paper contends that the researcher body is important to investigations of the becoming of phenomena with the world, therefore a haptic sensorium is developed as a means to visualize bodily affects and to recognize limit values to the world, for example, background noise. The article concludes with a discussion about creating knowledge of this process as a rhizome. The article attempts to illustrate that thinking with the world can generate new knowledge to understand the becoming of phenomena, which can contribute to the development of educational research.

scholarly journals Realities to be-come: on Cosmopolitics

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schillmeier
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Possible World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Key Terms

To assume that all things we want to describe – humans and non-humans alike – can be done so properly only in terms of 'societies', requires a contrast – a momentum of cosmopolitics – to the very abstract distinctions upon which our classical understanding of sociology and its key terms rests: 'The social' as defined in opposition to 'the non-social', 'society' in opposition to 'nature'. The concept of cosmopolitics tries to avoid such modernist strategy that A. N. Whitehead called 'bifurcation of nature' (cf. Whitehead 1978, 2000). The inventive production of contrasts names a cosmopolitical tool which does not attempt to denounce, debunk, replace or overcome abstract, exclusivist oppositions that suggest divisions as 'either…or'-relations. Rather, as the Belgian philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers stresses, 'the contrast will have to be celebrated in the manner of a new existent, adding a new dimension to the cosmos' (Stengers 2011: 513). Cosmopolitics, then, engages with 'habits we experiment with in order to become capable of new experiences' (Stengers 2001: 241) and opens up the possibility of agency of the non-expected Other, the non-normal, the non-human, the non-social, the un-common. 'The Other is the existence of a possible world', as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1994: 17-18) have put it. It is 'the condition for our passing from one world to another. The Other (...) makes the world go by.'

scholarly journals A literatura de Caio Fernando Abreu como máquina de guerra

Scriptorium ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Becoming Bear: On the Sami Yoik, Music, and Human Involution

Ung Uro ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Filippo Greggi
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Can a human become a bear? Starting from an analysis of Sami yoik, this chapter suggests how the notion of becoming-animal could shed a light on this musical practice and bring out some relevant ethico-aesthetical implications. The concept of becoming-animal, as theorised by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, emphasises the proximity of the human and the non-human realm and, along with the yoik, shows the illusory nature of their division. The chapter discusses this theoretical-practical nexus and examines the potentialities of music and sound worlds in fostering a different arrangement of the way we perceive the world—freed from anthropocentrism’s chains and contiguous with a non-human sensitivity.

scholarly journals The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Torrance Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Abstract Machine ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Principal Task

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.'  This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

Pimp my fluff: A Thousand Plateaus and other theoretical extravaganzas

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 146-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Hertz
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Production Values ◽  
The World

This article is fueled by irritation with obscurantism in and posturing around ‘theory’ in contemporary anthropology. It examines three examples of contemporary anthropological production that build on what has become a cult reference in this regard, the incomprehensible A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. These examples involve the reconceptualization of crafting (Ingold), of causation (Remme) and of the rhizome (Mueller), each of which mobilizes Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptual lexicon in a specific and distinct way. Nourished by these examples, and despite her initial skepticism, the author concludes that the obscurity of Deleuze and Guattari’s overwrought prose can nonetheless lead to interesting anthropological analyses that engage variously with this work to produce real theoretical and empirical insights. The article concludes, however, that the disciplinary economy of this production values ‘theory’ over and above attempts to describe ‘reality’. Then, building on Boltanski’s distinction between ‘reality’ and ‘the world’, it proposes what the author argues is a more useful mobilization of theory, dedicated to producing more accurate and just descriptions of the world we live in.

Disruptive writing and a critique of territoriality

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prem Kumar Rajaram
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Specific Consumption ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary State ◽  
The World

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari wrote of the territorialising of the world, describing the commodification of space; its parcelling out and regimentation ensuring stable, unvarying coherence. Territorialised space, when well regulated, becomes a settled base for the political and for notions of political identity, heritage and kinship. Kenan Ferguson describes this as ‘the location and creation of civilization in a specific consumption of the land, as well as the subsequent delegitimation of those with different conceptions of it.’ The contemporary state is the receptacle of human ambition and desires, with history, allegiance and kinship understood in terms of its borders; there is a retrospective history premised on strategic forgetting and the cultivation of a collective memory coherent before the contemporary state.

scholarly journals The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Torrance Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Abstract Machine ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Principal Task

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.'  This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

scholarly journals Performance stylistics: Deleuze and Guattari, poetry and (corpus) linguistics

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran O’Halloran
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
The World

<p>Taking as stimulus some key ideas of the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborator the psychoanalyst, Félix Guattari, I demonstrate an alternative interpretative engagement with poetry. In this approach, a poem is seen as an invitation to the reader to be creative via a web-based, interpretative journey which is individual, edifying and refreshing. This approach allows a poem’s obliqueness and suggestiveness to trigger, randomly, knowledge and resources on the world-wide-web that are new for the reader; in turn, these can be used as fresh perspectives on the poem in order to perform it in individual ways, to ‘fill in’ creatively personas and scenarios in the poem. This web-based engagement with a poem involves stylistic analysis.</p><p>The web-based element of performance stylistics is centrifugal, taking the reader outside of the poem, travelling from website to website. This centrifugal movement is balanced by a centripetal one which takes the reader into the patterns of the poem. Stylistic analysis meets this centripetal need effectively. Traditionally, stylistic analysis has been used to provide linguistic evidence for interpretation of a literary work. However, influenced by ideas in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I also use stylistic analysis in a non-traditional way - to <em>mobilise</em> interpretation of a poem. In this article, the poem I use to demonstrate performance stylistics is Robert Frost’s, ‘Putting in the Seed’. Performance stylistics can draw on corpus analysis too.</p>

scholarly journals Affective togetherness in arts education: Lingering on a performative approach to wool felting

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Samira Jamouchi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Leading Question ◽  
Teacher Training Students

This article explores moments relating to affect and togetherness as expressed by three groups of teacher training students who participated in different performative wool felting sessions during 2018 and 2019 at two Norwegian universities. A performative approach to the subject of visual arts in teacher education is characterised by fostering intra-actions among the participants engaging bodily with each other, space, time and materials, in an open-ended, creative way.The students express feeling of togetherness stimulated by intra-actions in such relational processes during performative approaches to wool felting. The leading question throughout this enquiry is what kind of togetherness the participants express. This is seen in dialogue with the work of Brian Massumi about affect. I borrow concepts from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, along with theoretical insights from Karen Barad, to share those experiences with the reader.

scholarly journals Postmodernism vs wholeness: socio-political discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
A. Ishutin
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Jacques Attali

The purpose of the article is to examine the ideological origins and political consequences of postmodernism in the contemporary world. The article uses such methods of scientific research as the comparative method, the retrospective method, and the hermeneutical method. The author of the article claims that in the context of the collapse of the project «Modern» and the idea of a mechanistic man, postmodernism becomes the ideology of Western civilization. At first, postmodernism identified itself only in the narrow world of philosophical circles, but even then it declared itself as a worldview of radical completion of the era of wholeness, «Big projects», «metanarratives» and universality. Prominent representatives of this ideology were the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari, who proclaimed «rhizome» as a new social ideal, in which, as in a mushroom, there are no roots, centers and supports. In the same way, a contemporary man, according to their worldview, should not take root anywhere or in anything: neither in value, nor in culture, nor in spatial terms. A person in society becomes an unrooted nomad who is not able to cognize the world or transform it. As a result, the world is rapidly divided into a nomadic paradise of nomadic Hedonists and a nomadic hell for most of the world's population. According to a European representative of the elite, Jacques Attali, this situation is becoming an irrevocable socio-political reality.

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