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raxThis is more criticism about Deleuze and Guattari that I am reading as a grounding --- again, brief notes on these.
War machine comes out of Guattari talks that cited Deleuze before they started working together --- was a Lacanian but was critical of structuralism, felt that "the eruption of the machine marks a date, a break that is not homogenous with structural representation."
"Deleuze... was vigilant about how structuralism could reduce the event to insignificance. He argued against making structure and event alternatives and instead favored their articulation."
This would be a vital source if I wanted to write RPS about Deleuze and Guattari. Since I do not, I am not sure what I am supposed to get out of reading Deleuze's correspondence with Althusser and about how he met Guattari. Unlike the last Dosse essay, this seems like a further depth for established readers of D&G, not a text I might take in with me to have a toehold. I guess it is interesting to know that the two of them encouraged each other into mutually more radical anti-structuralist positions. And that Anti-Oedipus "Was designed to be a war machine against structuralism," also an "infernal machine" which concept I am less clear on.
"a single plane of consistency unfolding across multiple strata" as a way of dissolving the binary of expression and content. (and thus of signified and signifier? Maybe?) Their goal was "to show the primacy of mixtures and hybridizations." OK, I can see that.
"The desiring machine must blaze a pathway into structures in order to destroy the master signifier defended by Lacanians." I WISH TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME.
"The problem is not the exchange of women... A woman circulates by herself." Hrm.
Ends with "A general theory of flux" which just what I will come back to this if I have time.
War machine comes out of Guattari talks that cited Deleuze before they started working together --- was a Lacanian but was critical of structuralism, felt that "the eruption of the machine marks a date, a break that is not homogenous with structural representation."
"Deleuze... was vigilant about how structuralism could reduce the event to insignificance. He argued against making structure and event alternatives and instead favored their articulation."
This would be a vital source if I wanted to write RPS about Deleuze and Guattari. Since I do not, I am not sure what I am supposed to get out of reading Deleuze's correspondence with Althusser and about how he met Guattari. Unlike the last Dosse essay, this seems like a further depth for established readers of D&G, not a text I might take in with me to have a toehold. I guess it is interesting to know that the two of them encouraged each other into mutually more radical anti-structuralist positions. And that Anti-Oedipus "Was designed to be a war machine against structuralism," also an "infernal machine" which concept I am less clear on.
"a single plane of consistency unfolding across multiple strata" as a way of dissolving the binary of expression and content. (and thus of signified and signifier? Maybe?) Their goal was "to show the primacy of mixtures and hybridizations." OK, I can see that.
"The desiring machine must blaze a pathway into structures in order to destroy the master signifier defended by Lacanians." I WISH TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME.
"The problem is not the exchange of women... A woman circulates by herself." Hrm.
Ends with "A general theory of flux" which just what I will come back to this if I have time.