Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus : : A Critical Introduction and Guide / / Brent Adkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Adkins, Brent,
• MitwirkendeR: Adkins, Brent,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Introductions and Guides : CIG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

A guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand PlateausRead the introduction, 'A Perceptual Semiotics', online for free (pdf)The 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. Using clear language and numerous examples, each chapter analyses an individual plateau and examines the tendencies toward both stasis and change for each assemblage found there - be it social, political, psychological, musical, biological or linguistic.Key FeaturesExplains all the major terms found in A Thousand Plateaus in clear languageEach chapter corresponds to a 'plateau' for ease of referenceProvides a singular interpretation of the work in terms of assemblages and connecting that interpretation with traditional and contemporary debates within philosophy"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Perceptual Semiotics -- 1. Rhizome -- 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? -- 3. 10,000 bc: The Geology of Morals -- 4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics -- 5. 587 bc-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. 7000 bc: Apparatus of Capture -- 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated -- Conclusion: The Ethics of Becoming -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index