A Thousand Plateaus: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal REVIEW

[@KerryRowberry]

That is the exact jacket I'd hope for teachings of Deleuze and Guattari to be delivered in. 💚

[@Nalhek]

I have no idea why this channel isn't more popular. This is legit 👌

[@Contextcatcher]

You've a remarkable mind Tadas, love your readings. Are you known with work of Elias Canetti especially his masterpiece Crowds And Power (published in 1961)? Canetti's 'Crowd And Power' pops up in 'Anti Oedipus' and 'Milles Plateau' a few times, but under the surface it had to be a great inspiration for D & G. E.g: 'Crowds And Power' central theme is metamorphosis ('becoming', 'fluïd identities') and connects it with multiplication (mass). Canetti's idea of human transformation is more dynamic (urgent/acute) than idea of Darwins evolution: his concept of order/command/sting is in the heart of it through our language. But there're many more parallels: idea of plateaus was already there in the way 'Crowds And Power' was structured. (Canetti got Nobel Prize for literature mainly for this work) There's also an important difference: Canetti wrote his book in clear style without too much abstractions, the opposite of D & G. Speaking about faciality and metamorfosis, this sentence of Canetti in Crowds And Power shows it directly: 'Every complete unknown language is a kind of acoustic mask; as soon one learns it, it becomes a face, understandable and soon familiar' Canetti wrote often about relation between animals and humans, and always is the metamorphosis (in connection with multiplcity) the crucrial quality. (Yes Kafka was an important infuence for him) He was passioned about reading myths. E.g: totems show how humans see animals as their ancestors. Many observations of Canetti in 'Crowds And Power' pop up, one way of another, in D & G abstract thinking.

[@janllh24]

Very true, the passages from Canneti D&G highlight wrt their "order-word" open a rich domain of speculation

[@khawass]

I like the idea of alliances vs. structural filiations. To me it seems that the animal is related to experiencing pure life, which might be possible for the celibate machine. Grown from the residual of the other two machines, outside this binary cut-flow system, it leads to “a schizophrenic experience of intensive quantities in their pure state…like a cry suspended between life and death, an intense feeling of transition…an open series of intensive elements, all of them positive, that are never an expression of the final equilibrium of a system, but consist, rather, of an unlimited number of stationary, meta-stable states through which a subject passes". Related to that, I like the following quote: "For it is trough writing that you become animal, it is trough colour that you become imperceptible, it is trough music that you become hard and memoryless, simultaneously animal and imperceptible: in love." Hugs

[@gileswiehahn9737]

This is great, keep it up!

[@gwinocour]

Good job cuz! Keep up the good werx!

[@catalinaserrano6528]

:* thanksss you save me