Illustrated Deleuze and Guattari

Seeing What is Said In love for the pictured, yet still methodological investigation of ideas, I would want to direct you to Marc Ngui’s illustrative study of the first two chapters of Deleuze and Guattari’s (I really do want to write “Guattari and Deleuze” each time I see that coupling) a thousand plateaus: capitalism and [...]

Martha Nussbaum and Hecuba: The Living Latticework of Ethics

Polyxena (much welcoming) and the Chorus University of Chicago professor, Martha Nussbaum, speaks emotionally and clearly about the tender nature of ethical binding, “we are more like a plant, than a gem”, as she summons up the lessons from Euripedes’s play. She communicates in body and mind the tenuous connections which make up our sense-making [...]

Becoming Intense and Longitude: Deleuze and Guattari

Deleuze and Guattari define a body by the terms latitude and longitude, such that each “body” would have a reading in each register, as they put it: D&G wrote: Latitude is made up of intensive parts falling under a capacity, and longitude of extensive parts falling under a relation. -a thousand plateaus, Becoming-Intense, Becoming Animal (257) [...]

Wasps, Orchids, Beetles and Crickets: A Menagerie of Change in Transgender Identification

[written Fall of 2007] Whatever so disposes the human Body that it can be affected in a great many ways, or renders it capable of affecting external Bodies in a great many ways, is useful to man; -Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, Proposition 38 This paper is going to be a bit of an experiment in [...]

Marks and Affects: Deleuze, Guattari and Triangulation

  Following Deleuze and Guattari, all that there are are marks (indices, vectors), and affects. Marks constitute directions, folds, affects institute degrees of power or intensity. This is simply a radicalization of Davidson’s triangulation, that of a shared world, others and self, that, brought to a non-subjectivist extreme. Involved is a panpsychic conception of knowledge, [...]