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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Deleuze and Guattari"”.
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From Affect to Value: towards a Deleuzian approach to creative production and control in late capitalism
… capitalist production. I will argue that understanding the production process of design today is assisted by Deleuze and Guattari’s understandings of capitalism as both a deterritorializing and reterritorializing force. I will argue that the generative power for graphic design is drawn from a …
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film
… encounter between psychology as a human science and the viral zombie film genre using the collaborative works of Deleuze and Guattari in conjunction with the queer anti-humanist theories of Colebrook and Halberstam. I interwove thematic (i.e. plot, dialogue, character development) and …
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ʼn Skisoanalitiese studie van Willem Anker en Samsa-masjien (2015)
… as developed by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Anker’s academic interest serves as the impetus for this study’s consideration of the possible influence of the schizoanalysis on Anker’s drama text Samsa-masjien (2015). The study uses the theoretical lens of …
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Graphic Interrogation in Psychosocial Research: Deleuze AND Comics AND Middle-aged Men
The assemblage of comics, Deleuzian metaphysics and middle-aged men in the context of psychosocial research is an experiment in the sense that Deleuze advocates for the furtherance of thought. The works of Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari can allow us, it is suggested, to bring together theoretical …
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Anti-Oedipus en-procés : a comparative analysis of Kristeva and Deleuze & Guattari
… the thought of Julia Kristeva as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are fully engaged. These thinkers, the latter two being considered as one, have until now remained strangers to one another. Consequently much confusion has amassed concerning their respective philosophical, as well as …
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Imagining and improvising with theory and practice : a narrative inquiry with first grade students during reading workshop
… this paper is to describe processes, tensions, and imaginings while infusing poststructural theories into conversations with data (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987; Lenz Taguchi, 2010; Olsson, 2009). Currently much of early childhood literacy research (Park, 2011; Scull, Nolan and Raban, 2013; Vera, …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… historical periods, applying deconstructive and queer theory to their writings and to their biographies. The resulting analysis traces gothic effects through other, more familiar texts and figures in order to bring about re-readings that disrupt certain monolithic understandings of literary …
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Smooth operators: architectural Deleuzism in societies of control
… the mechanisms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze termed a ‘society of control’, it also attends to the presentation by figures prominent within architectural theory and practice—through their own translations of Deleuze, and his writings with Félix Guattari, as well as their mobilisations …
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NATURALLY STRIATED MUSCLE: EXAMINING THE IDEOGRAPHIC CRYSTALLIZATION OF
<p>In U.S. America and much of the Western world, natural is a venerated symbolic placeholder for any number of assumed virtues and ideals. Present conflicts have brought forward questions about what natural (which I argue functions as an ideograph) should mean in contexts that seem to call for a …
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
… the relationships between science, nature, and curriculum using string theory and our ideas about the environment as a backdrop. Both the energy and multiple possibilities created by strings and the rich history leading up to the theory help to illustrate the many opportunities we have to …
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Downers: Crip Affect and Radical Relationalities
… body complicates global economies of social and political encounter. Engaging with neoliberal formulations of embodiment and the co-constitutive forces of heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness (McRuer, 2006), I look at the ways in which many theoretical and political disability …
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Deleuze, Femininity and the Specter of Poststructural Politics: Variations on the Materiality of Rhetoric
… rhetoric in a minor key. I review poststructural and psychoanalytic endeavors to position rhetoric from within the postmodern and poststructural critique of the subject. I move beyond the logic of influence (dependent on a flawed conception of object) and hermeneutics (the correspondingly flawed …
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You ... " Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music
This thesis examines the religious dimension of fandom in popular music, taking as an object of reflection Lady Gaga and her fans. I combine fan studies with theories of immanence as well as Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the process of becoming, and provide a theoretical reading of the …
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A cinema of immanence: the films of Paul Verhoeven in Hollywood and beyond
… with the director’s Hollywood productions and tends to apply frameworks of analysis based on Cartesian dualist thought. Much of this scholarship consequently finds contradictions between the politically progressive qualities of Verhoeven’s work and the reactionary politics assumed to be …
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The pragmatic constructions of Deleuze, Guattari and Miles Davis
… written on the work of the French philosophers and theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, whose work has generated a great deal of interest in recent years and a proportionate amount of controversy. Much of this controversy can be attributed to simplifications and misunderstandings on the …
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Deleuzian Mappings With Rafael Chirbe's "little Machines"
<p>Spanish (Valencian) novelist Rafael Chirbes, and how this narrative production coincides with several of the philosophical concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari included in works that they co-authored or in those written individually by Deleuze. The novels considered in this study are La …
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Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures
… systems of relation, theories of the rhizome and assemblage by Deleuze and Guattari, affect theory, and feminist ethics of care to ultimately critique underlying colonial-capitalist patterns of thought and embodiment, specifically dualism. I explore how these patterns permeate the dance studio …
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The Problem: The Theory of Ideas in Ancient Atomism and Gilles Deleuze
Deleuze and Guattari famously defined philosophy as the "art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts." This, however, is not the whole story of philosophy. For concepts, according to Deleuze, are formed or invented as solutions to problems. If concepts are the solutions to problems, then …
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A Continuum of Traversing Lines: Youth Political Participation in Gaia Online
This qualitative research project uses a Deleuzo-Guattarian theoretical framework to address the question: “How are the politically oriented social forums in Gaia Online experienced as a continuum of overlapping of lines, including molar lines, lines of flight, and molecular lines?” Although smooth …
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Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise
… the materiality at play within installation and performance artworks from across the interdisciplinary fields of media arts, digital arts and contemporary technological arts and is positioned at the noisier end of the artistic spectrum of these disciplines. The practice-led research presented …
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