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Week 13

Week 13. Postmodern Subjectivity. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. “ A Thousand Plateaus. ” Literary Theory: An Anthology . 2nd ed. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2004. 378-86. A book. = an assemblage = a multiplicity = a body without organs = a machine

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Week 13

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  1. Week 13 Postmodern Subjectivity

  2. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. “A Thousand Plateaus.”Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2004. 378-86.

  3. A book = an assemblage = a multiplicity = a body without organs = a machine = desire ≠ ideology

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  5. The first type: the root-book • = the classical book • = mimesis “The book imitates the world, the world imitates nature” (379). • = subjective organic interiority • = binaries, “the One that becomes two”

  6. http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/19720629.htm

  7. The second type: the radicle-system • The fascicular root • A book all the more total for being fragmented • The principal root has aborted, its tip has been destroyed; an immediate indefinite multiplicity of secondary roots grafts onto it and undergoes a flourishing development. . . . but the root’s unity subsists . . . demanding an even more comprehensive secret unity, or a more extensive totality . . . . (379-80) • Nietzsche, James Joyce

  8. http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/rp/growthstages/image56.jpghttp://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/rp/growthstages/image56.jpg

  9. http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Gilbert_Muth/art0001.jpg

  10. The third type: a rhizome • =subterranean stem • Characteristics • 1. connection • 2. heterogeneity • 3. multiplicity • 4. asignifying rupture

  11. http://www.nomadology.com/rhizome.html

  12. http://www.bartleby.com/images/A4images/A4rhizom.jpg

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  14. http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4burrow.jpg

  15. Contrary to “a deeply rooted belief, the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome with the world . . . . (383) • Example: the Pink Panther

  16. A plateau • A plateau is always in the middle, not at the beginning or the end. • A rhizome is made of plateaus. • A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things . . . . The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb “to be,” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “and . . . and . . . and . . .” (385-86).

  17. http://www.toon-en-rikkemien.nl/Waterberg%20Plateau%20Park.JPGhttp://www.toon-en-rikkemien.nl/Waterberg%20Plateau%20Park.JPG

  18. Discussion

  19. Francis Bacon - Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X – 1953 http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm

  20. Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

  21. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bacon/selfport.jpg

  22. The End

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