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[ot] mille plateaux
hey folks
about a year back there was a thread on this list about deleuze and
guattari's thousand plateaus. i'd never really heard of the pair before
and picked up the book and have been pecking at it on and off for the last
year. it only ever made glimmers of sesne to me and i never really made
much progress despite the fact that i was dating a girl who had just
returned from studying D&G in oxford and who would tell me bedtime stories
about bodies without organs...
but recently i found a copy of anti-oedipus and have been working on it an
suddenly it's all making glorious sense. i left my copy of a thousand
plateaus in denver, but hopefully i'll have it mailed out to me and i can
get to it again.
two questions for everyone:
1 - any recommendations for good secondary sources, commentaries,
interpretaions; clarifications of key concepts ("body without organs"
"nomadic-war-machine" "rhizome") that have prooved helpful; or personal
insights and experiences that have brought this text to life?
2 - D&G deal with the intellectual tradtions of three thinkers who each
started radically new methods of thought: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche. thinking
about radical modern thinkers inevitably leads me to my own personal
obsession, Edmund Husserl (founder of continental european philosophy, in
my book). mille plateax includes a handful or references husserl, and
handful more to heidegger (of course), but altogether not all too much.
the vocabulary of the books is clearly wrapped up in husserl's tradition
(talk of constitution and mention of their "phenomenological approach) -
so i'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations or thoughts to look
into the connection here. connections to heidegger would be helpful here
too, since, in my opinion, heidegger's thinking is mostly just a subset of
husserl's.
lastly i should say thank you to the list. the girl i mentioned above
approached me only because i was sitting in a coffee house reading D&G and
what followed was, well, what always follows between boys and girls. so
thank you, oh list, for introducing me to culutural artifacts that have
helped me to hook it up with the ladies.
l'chaim,
brett.
p.s. - sorry for yet another philosophical post with little explicit
connection to microsound - but it seems to me most of the people on this
list get off on philosophy as much as i do.....
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