A creative multiplicity: the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari

– 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 some leaning towards a more anarchist than Marxist approach, though. 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.