Examine how Deleuze and Guattari draw emphasis to the constructed and contingent nature of social reality. Rhizomatic thought with traditional tree - use models of thought based in sequential argumentation.
Interpretations of process of social change and development
How they propose individual people might transform themselves
Contextualise these theories of change and development in relation to virtual and actual.
1970/80
Paris 1968 - student worker protest - role of society
A thousand plateaus - rethink social change
Ongoing change
- Tree like nature
one line of argument always leads to another- we are the point of genesis
difference - play - activity
How people are socially constructed
Read the book as you listen to music - read chapters out of order
Literature, architecture, sociology
Rhizome - underground stem
pushes out of the ground
Mint - ginger
Alternative mode of thought not vertical progression to conclusion
Rather unconnected ideas
Concept - signified
Sound image - signifier
For Deleuze and Guattari these become creative forces that shape new rhizomatic configurations. Such configurations dissolve conventional procedures and thought patterns, reconnecting them as contingent, diverse, formations.
The work features a man and a woman who face you, the viewer. They repeat statements that continually change through the substitution of individual words. These statements begin with variations between “I”, “you”, “we”, “they”, placing the viewer in a disorienting set of changing roles between individual accuser, and accused, and member or condemner of a particular social grouping.
The architect Zaha Hadid is interested in expressing such assemblages through archtiectural form. The National Museum of XXI Century Arts, in Rome was designed by Zaha Hadid as an assemblage.
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Deleuze and Guattari refers to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, two French philosophers who wrote a number of works together. The most notable of these is the two volumeCapitalism and Schizophrenia, consisting of Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Unhappy with the treatment of Franz Kafka’s work by scholars, Deleuze and the Guattari wrote Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature in order to dismiss the notion that the only two ways to analyze Kafka were to “[put] him in the nursery—by oedipalizing and relating him to mother-father narratives—or by trying to limit him to theological-metaphysical speculation to the detriment of all the political, ethical, and ideological dimensions that run through his work…” [1]. Published in 1975, their book sought to enter Kafka’s works without the unnecessary burden of the type of analysis that relates works to past or existing categories of genre, type, mode, or style. This sort of analysis is related to what Deleuze and Guattari would call the "Major" or dominant literature out of which they see Kafka emerging as a voice of a marginalized, minority people by re-appropriating the major language for his own purposes". They also wrote What is Philosophy? together. Although Capitalism and Schizophrenia is considered a magnum opus for both, they each had distinguished careers independent of each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze_and_Guattari
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