The first few pages of Anti-Oedipus have always been sort of inspirational to me. But the bit about the Schizo-Stroll has always puzzled me. Why is the Schizophrenic happily strolling? Isnt' Schizophrenia a form of suffering? Isn't it more realistic to depict a Schizo as being alienated? Why begin a book about psychoanalysis with such a ( Read more... )

Continental Philosophy is not the same thing as Critical Theory. If anything Critical Theory is a smaller sub-genre of Continental Philosophy. Crit. Theory probably can be said to have originated with the Frankfurt School (Benjamin, Habermas, Marcuse, Adorno, etc.) but Cont. Phil goes back 150 years and includes Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel, the German ( Read more... )

I'm off to teach my General Philosophy class in about half an hour. I am growing tired of teaching Plato, Kant, Aquinas and other olde-tyme philosophers (as I call them)... Is it appropriate to teach Foucault, Deleuze, or Marx to an introductory philosophy class ( Read more... )

I live in Binghamton and the shootings that happened here today reminded me of D&G (mostly Derrida and Bataille's concept of Restricted to General Economy ( Read more... )

Jacques Ranciere outlines Plato's critique of democracy in a book written in 1995 entitled, On the Shores of Politics. Plato's critique of democracy resembles D&G's analysis in the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia... Plato's critique of democracy also resembles Marx's vision of communism (as I understand it from The German Ideology.... ( Read more... )

Check out this link from Rethinking Marxism...

Click Here - Socialist Economist Richard Wolff explains the greatest crisis of capitalism the world has ever known.

One of my favorite lines from A-O goes, "Capitalism is a motley painting of everything that has ever existed." Ontologically, epistemologically, historically, there is a lingering effect from all previous modes of production ( Read more... )

Bush's Bailout Plan

It is clear to me that if the bailout is going to work there must be serious strings attached to the money. It should go toward creating new jobs (i.e. middle-class consumers), it should also go to GM to create cars that no longer run on gasoline (cars running on compressed air actually exist! and it should go toward Check ( Read more... )

can we talk about intensities for a moment? I have a rusty memory, so if I once had a good idea, today when I picked up AO after a rest, I wasn't too clear on what is meant by "intensity." There is often talk of "zones" or "fields" of intensity, or of flows of various intensities ( Read more... )

Collectively we are turning into mechanical beings. Spiritually vacuous, but still bound to the various sacred texts of our personal choosing. Libido is a connection to our animal selves, and hence it is a way of breaking down the technical and overly rational experiences that dominate modern civilization. We could just as easily say the same about ( Read more... )