Title: Deleuze and Guattari's A thousand plateaus : a critical introduction and guide
Abstract: The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. is an assemblage? is a rhizome? is a war machine? is a body without organs? 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.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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