For a reading that reintroduces transcendence back
into Deleuze and Guattari you might wish to look at
Goodchild's work. There's an amusing letter from
Deleuze at the beginning of Goodchild's first book on
D&G that clearly distinguishes Deleuze's own position
from the one Goodchild is there attributing to him.
Goodchild seems to be seeking some noxious synthesis
of Levinas and schizoanalysis. Given that Levinas'
conception of the Other seems to be a superstitious
mystification of the Other, I say no thanks!
Best regards,
Paul
--- Kenneth Johnson <kenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Thanks to everyone for replying to my initial
> query. I thought I might try
> >to start discussion on a topic...
> >Has anyone noticed while reading Anti-Oepdius and
> Thousand Plateaus that in
> >their critique of capitalism D&G's language starts
> to resemble very much a
> >spiritual language? Have connections been made
> between D&G and discourses
> >on/about God? E.g., their emphasis on "becoming",
> the "middle" which is
> >separated from all points and plateaus (like
> spiritual space that transcends
> >all material points and plateaus), their concept of
> "line of flight" - like
> >a leap of faith, perhaps, or any kind of
> transcendence from usual/material
> >reality.
> >
> >Has anything been published in this area? What do
> others think? Does their
> >critique of capitalism/psychoanalysis eventually
> reach a "limit" where a
> >spiritual discourse could take over? I'd be
> grateful for any references...If
> >there's interest, I can post passages I have in
> mind.
> >
> >EM
>
> well i'm not a wide reader of D nor G, but Deleuze I
> know was a devoted
> Nietzschean, wrote a brilliant book called
> "Nietzsche and Philosophy", so
> doubt there would be any fruitful search there, and
> I'd assume also that
> Guattari would likewise not be interested in this
> particular line of
> flight, the superstitious God line. There's not much
> room in real
> philosophy today for all those ancient errors and
> miscalculations rising
> from centuries of slavish motivations inhering
> inside any such "spiritual
> discourse"'s, which all have cost the ever tenuous
> advancement of the
> strong side of the life force so dearly. Tho there
> is some - -
>
> you a godder EM?? if you are, why waste your time on
> real philosophy?
>
> kenneth
>
>
>
> x
>
>
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