I read that nomadology is a pun on Leibniz's monadology. I guess people would still have to give a shit about Leibniz to get that pun. Does anyone know how there is a connection between these two concepts, that is does anyone know anything or care at all about Leibniz anymore to explain this connection?

But just to set the tone, I'll reflect on a conversation I had with a professor about D&G. I think a central theme throughout their writings is the conception of Production, which bears an affinity to Marx, but is not reducible to Marxist categories. They speak of production in a myriad of ways. The sense I get from them is that they talk of ( Read more... )

We barely scratched the surface of Derrida's reading of a footnote in Being and Time. Do you want to continue a conversation about that text (which is full of points to debate/discuss) or do you want to move on back to Deleuze and Guattari?

Global Capital" although the main organizing principle of the global order today, it is not so centralized. This is the illusion of panopticism, to give the premonition of a localized "Center"that might not actually exist... to power relations. Power is disseminated, circulated, "propagated - which is a word originating from the Catholic Church, ( Read more... )

I'd have to scan it and save it as 38 different files, this is just too time consuming an endeavor. Instead, I'll type out the footnote that puzzled Derrida in its entirety, and then summarize his position as well as Heidegger's as best I can, and we can discuss. Im sorry for the inconvenience. If you have it in your possession then please feel ( Read more... )

Is there anywhere in Derrida's writings where he deals with the "onto-theo-logical tradition?" Im looking now through Margins of Philosophy, his notes on a note from Being and Time... perhaps we can discuss this essay a bit if people are interested.

Ok, so Schizophrenia is a prevalent theme in Anti-Oedipus and 1,000 Plateaus. But what is it? This is not D&G's interpretation, but my own, so bear with me for a second ( Read more... )

Ok, I posted this in response to some comments on the previous post, but im not sure if you all are looking at those posts. So here it is again, with further comments ( Read more... )

"The ultimate meaning of structuralism is binary alteration. The ultimate meaning of machinic filiation is a sort of surrealism, residues, detritus, witness to the impossibility of 'reducing' desiring machines coded flows (singular infinitives)" Anti-Oedipus Papers, an essay by Guattari called Militant Incidences ( Read more... )

Why is war painful, yet it's enjoyable to view films about war ( Read more... )