2020-06-22
*1. Read: A creative multiplicity: the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari
I really enjoyed this article.
It gives a bit of back story to Deleuze & Guattari. I find that helps give me a grounding, much like with A Short History of Nearly Everything.
They met during May 68. Sounds like Guattari was the more political of the two. I am fully on-board with a description of their work as "a progressive, Marxist-inspired, anti-capitalist politics of joy".
It's quite interesting though. There seems to be an obvious leaning towards a more anarchist than Marxist approach. Very much anti-hierarchy, at least.
Yet, at the same time, anti-individual:
Deleuze and Guattari were both resolutely anti-individualist: whether in the realm of politics, psychotherapy or philosophy, they strived to show that the individual was a deception, summoned up to obscure the nature of reality.
I like how D&G seem to sit somewhere between the horizontal and the vertical.
2. Elsewhere
2.1. In my garden
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