Do Deleuze and Guattari Want You to be Schizophrenic? | Deleuze and Guattari Concept in Focus

[@LittleMakwa]

You could make an entire channel dedicated to the misreadings of D&G lmao. Another fantastic video keep it up!

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

lol what an oddly validating compliment, thanks!

[@Lynnaverym]

your channel and videos are great, number one thing you need is a microphone closer to your mouth, whether that's a clip on or boom, audio is 90% of perceived quality of a video

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@Lynnaverym Yeah on my other lectures where I don’t have my face the audio quality is much better because my mic is closer to my mouth. Not much I can do about it with the equipment I have at the time when I still want to have my face :/

[@Lynnaverym]

@@gavinyoung-philosophy yeah understandable trying to keep the camera out of frame. a lapel mic would be the way to go, they're cheap and can plug into the camera or ur phone

[@thelastremnantofevil]

I found you through a comment you left in a mindshift video. Gotta say your content is quality and has a genuine soul of curiosity to it. I've never learned much acedemic philosophy but your content is getting me more into that field. Thanks for everything you do.

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@thelastremnantofevil Glad to have you in my neck of the woods! Thank you for your kind words :)

[@s.lazarus]

Yes they do and I'm here for it

[@dethkon]

We’re* here for it. All 12 of me!

[@Nilnaberius6727]

;-;

[@morfindog508]

Banger!

[@alicevanbesien6959]

Hey Gavin :) In your video around 17:20 you start to talk about the “line of flight” / “abstract line of death”, do you know which book(s) from them talk about that or where i can find more? thank you :)

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@alicevanbesien6959 You can find it fairly prominently in A Thousand Plateaus, particularly in the chapter “How do you Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?”, as well as a few others such as the one on Becoming.

[@alicevanbesien6959]

@@gavinyoung-philosophywow perfect thank you have a nice day! :)

[@thinkers_tapestry]

Hey! Recently came across your channel and I really love it. I am still an amateur in philosophy. Would you by have any chance have any book recommendations or simply any advice on how to start with philosophy? Where to start from

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@thinkers_tapestry Thank you for the kind words! I have a video giving some advice on how to self-learn philosophy, but generally I’d say to just cast a wide net and try your best to give charitable interpretations. Also, take everything on the internet with a grain of salt; you’ll quickly find that someone who sounds like an authority on someone has misread them or hasn’t even read them at all (and I’m no exception to this rule!). For book recommendations, I highly recommend Descartes’ “Meditations on First Philosophy”. It’s a staple of modern philosophy (the “modern” philosophical period starts in like the mid 1600s, so the name is kinda a misnomer lol) and is both approachable and interesting. It’s all about how we can know things, as well as his attempt to provide a firm proof for God. Despite my disagreements with him on many things, it’s an undeniably great text. You can’t go wrong with reading any of Plato’s dialogues if you’re interested in that kind of stuff. Meno is an easier one. I’m really not that obsessed with Plato, but he’s thorough and approachable while still being complex enough to yield a lifetime of thought. If you have any particular interests, I can give more tailored recommendations, but those are always my general ones!

[@Nilnaberius6727]

Yukio mishima once wrote that man is life/mater and writing is transcendental/sun-bataille esk, material and transcendental very pluralism=monism ^-^

[@oxident-954]

As the zen aphorism goes: enlightenment is controlled psychosis

[@gegriddleton1]

unrelated to the video: if you're comfortable saying so, what instrument did you play. i wasn't all state in 2020-2021 but im wondering if we were ever in the same room or something lmfao

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@gegriddleton1 I was all-state bassoon, but it was during Covid and they did the conference online (basically just a masterclass with our section and listening to a few speakers). It was pretty boring but def glad to have it under my belt I guess 🤷‍♂️

[@pabloguzman8472]

Its part of the healing process they are proposing with schizoanalysis. remember this is related to the connective syntesis (and, and) where you add stuff to desire and try to map it even if its not coherent. Doing it Artaud theater of cruelty way (surrealism + sensorial) is effective because its potent. its a way to deterritorialize you away from capitalism and aedipus. what comes next is also schizophrenic in a way but you will need the disjunctive syntesis (or, or) to reterritorialize desire into something that you decide from your will. desire fron body without organs nows flows directly into what you want and not what family and society got you stuck with (perfect child, successful, etc)

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@pabloguzman8472 Very well put Pablo! These syntheses are very important for actually understanding the development of this process.

[@pabloguzman8472]

@@gavinyoung-philosophy actual use of schizoanalysis in clinical settings is almost anecdotical (some experiences in brazil, argentina) but is interesting to have this kind of discussions to generate the framework and the tools from philosophy for clinicians or people to use it. D and G used the obscure language as a safety measure to prevent capitalist capture. but a potent enough framework would be able to defend itself from capitalist decoding and recoding attempts. they gave us the state machine and the war machine (and lots of other machines) not only to explain society but as hidden in sight tools to use it for revolution, and to also prevent capture from fascistic type of revolutions.

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@pabloguzman8472 I totally agree. It’s a penetrating ontological investigation as much as it is a clearly delineated, systematic clinical framework (in fact, it’s very little of the latter since they recognize there to be so many open ends that need not be tied up).

[@aflatoon_333]

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