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Interested In:
Just looking around
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Member Since:
Jul 2003
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Hometown:
Paris
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Gilles's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/950312
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Occupation:
concept-maker
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What I enjoy doing:
deterritorialization, becoming, haecceity, body without organs, lines of flight, desiring-machines, schizophrenia, ritornello, plane of consistency, rhizome, nomadology, intensities, assemblage
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Favorite Books:
Kafka, Proust, Kleist, Burroughs, Artaud, Beckett, Fitzgerald, Nietzsche, Clastres, Foucault, Holderlin, Lovecraft, Miller, Spinoza, Woolf, Klossowski, Bergson, Lewis Carroll, Sacher-Masoch
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Favorite Movies:
Godard, Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Resnais, Orson Welles, Willard
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Favorite Music:
Schumann, Beethoven, John Cage, Debussy, Mozart, Varese
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Favorite TV Shows:
Six Fois Deux: Sur et sous la communication by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville
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About Me:
I belong to a generation, one of the last generations, that
was
more or less assassinated with the history of philosophy.
History of
philosophy has an obvious, repressive function in
philosophy; it is
philosophy's very own Oedipus. "All the same you won't
dare to speak
your own name as long as you have not read this and that,
and that on
this, and this on that." In my generation, many did not
pull through;
some did by inventing their own procedures and new rules, a
new tone.
For a long time I myself have worked through the history of
philosophy,
read such and such a book on such and such an author. But
I managed to
compensate for this in several ways: first by loving
authors who were
opposed to the rationalist tradition of that history. I
find among
Lucretius, Hume, Spinoza and Nietzsche a secret link that
resides in the
critique of negation, the cultivation of joy, the hatred of
interiority,
the exteriority of forces and relations, the denunciation
of power, etc.)
What I detested more than anything else was Hegelianism and
the
Dialectic. My book on Kant is something else. I like it,
I wrote it as
a book on an enemy; in it I try to show how Kant operates,
what makes up
his mechanisms - High Court of Reason, measured use of
faculties,
submissiveness all the more hypo- critical as the title of
legislators is
bestowed upon us. But what really helped me to come off at
that time
was, I believe, to view the history of philosophy as a
screwing process
or, what amounts to the same thing, an immaculate
conception. I would
imagine myself approaching an author from behind, and
making him a child,
who would indeed be his and would, never- theless, be
monstrous. That
the child would be his was very important because the
author had to say,
in effect, everything I made him say. But that the child
be monstrous
was also a requisite because it was necessary to go through
all kinds of
decenterings, slidings, splittings, secret dis- charges
which have given
me much pleasure.
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Who I Want to Meet:
For learning evolves entirely in the comprehension of
problems as such, in the apprehension and condensation of
singularities, and in the composition of ideal events and
bodies. Learning to swim or learning a foreign language
means composing the singular points of one's own body or
one's own language with those of another shape or element
which tears us apart but also propels us into a hitherto
unknown and unheard-of world of problems.
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you, but howabouts you explain to me
what that infernal Derrida is talking about
in Archive fever?.
you ever heard of Deleuze?" I'll eat
myself.
on Cinema I've ever read. Thank You Prof.
Deleuze.
which is that some people have
considered Deleuze's
collaboration with me as deforming
his
philosophical thought and leading
him into analytical and
political tracks where he somehow
went astray. So, some people
have tried to present this
collaboration, often in some
unpleasant ways, as an
unfortunate episode in Gilles
Deleuze's
life, and have therefore displayed
toward me the infantile
attitude of quite simply denying my
existence. Sometimes, one
even sees references to
"L'Anti-Oedipe" or "Mille plateaux" in
which my name is quite simply
omitted, in which I no longer
exist at all . . . let's just say that this
is one dimension of
malice of a political nature.
One could also look at this
dimension from another
perspective: one could say, OK, in
the long run, "Deleuze" has
become a common noun, or in any
case, a common noun not only for
him and me, but for a certain
number of people who participate
in "Deleuze-thought" (la pensee
deleuze) as we would have
said years ago "Mao-thought".
"Deleuze-thought" does exist;
Michel Foucault insisted on that to
some extent, in a rather
humorous way, saying that this
century would be Deleuzian, and I
hope so. That doesn't mean that
the century will be connected
to the thought of Gilles Deleuze,
but will comprise a certain
re-assemblage of theoretical
activity vis-a-vis university
institutions and power institutions
of all kinds.
Guattari have disassembled and
rearranged the way in which I think
about everything . . . always
applicable, your terms circulate
intensities in my sleep, unfolding,
becoming. . .
amazing philosopher. The ENS, the books
on Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche...Why
did you have to become involved with
that twit Guattari? In my mind, you will
forever be known as the man who
authored, "Spinoza: Practical
Philosophy", with "Capitalism and
Schizophrenia:..." being nothing but
minor footnotes, instead of the other
way around. -dx
senile French man who keeps saying the
same thing over and over. You are
Nietzsche's and Bergson's underdog and
I love you for that. However, you don't
really understand Tarkovsky.
Nevertheless, you are my favorite
Philosopher and I'll be spending most
of the next three years reading and
rereading your works.