Description
Book SynopsisThe sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari''s
A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by
A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari''s radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself.
To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding
A Thousand Plateaus is ''assemblage.'' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari''s answer to the perennial philosophical question, What is a thing? and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Each plateau is therefore concerned with a particular type of assemblage (e.g. social, political, linguistic) and its tendencies toward both stasis and change.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: A Perceptual Semiotics; 1. Rhizome; 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves?; 3. 10,000BC: The Geology of Morals; 4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics; 5. 587BC - AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs; 6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?; 7. Year Zero: Faciality; 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or 'What Happened?'; 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity; 10. 1730: Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperceptible...; 11. 1837: Of the Refrain; 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine; 13. 7000BC: Apparatus of Capture; 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated; Conclusion: The Ethics of Becoming; Suggestions for Further Reading; Bibliography.
