Returning to Deleuze and Guattari on language and linguistics, like the last time, I’ll be looking into the fourth chapter or plateau in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. The last time it was established that, for them, language is not simply informational and communicational. Instead, for them (75) language is highly functional and hardly […]
I haven’t really addressed how Deleuze and Guattari view language and linguistics, so I thought I’d give it a go. This time I’ll be looking into the fourth chapter or plateau in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. The relevant part of the book is titled ‘November 20, 1923 – Postulates of Linguistics’ and I’ll […]
Why is it that I write this blog? Well, it started of as one, but then I found myself writing longer and longer texts, so now it’s more like a collection of essays that focus on something that I find relevant to my own research, typically at least somehow linked to landscape and discourse, but […]
One has to eat, that’s for sure and that’ll serve as the starting point for this essay. This is not directly linked to my own research, but something that I came across when reading about biopower. You can take this as a reading suggestion. It’s well recommended and I think not particularly complicated. Even if […]
Fake this. Fake that. Fake, fake, fake, it’s all fake, even orgasms. If someone tells you otherwise, it’s fake news. As already stated a number of times, seven times to be specific (eight if the title counts), this essay is all about all things fake. The problem with this is, as we’ll come to see, […]
I mentioned in the previous essay that one of the topics at a conference dealt with the deemed requirement to use formal language. I initially thought of covering both plagiarism and formality of language in the same essay, but then I enjoyed myself so very much that the essay ballooned out of control to an […]
I attended a conference recently and at least two topics made me wonder. One was on plagiarism and the other one on standards of language, formal vs. informal. The presentations were both well and good, interesting and nuanced. Both had discussion extended into the hows and whys, which made things interesting. I could have done […]
I don’t know what it is or was that pushed me to this direction, or at least I can’t remember. Well, I guess that doesn’t matter anyway. Perhaps it just struck me one day how dark it gets in Finland and how I hadn’t given that much thought previously. Anyway, so I did a bit […]
What is included in this essay was supposed to be in the previous one, but then I opted not to include it. It’s important and related to it, but it would have shifted the focus a bit too much away from the discourse itineraries and materialization of discourses. To summarize what I wrote in the […]
In my previous essay I examined how Claude Raffestin approaches landscape in ‘Space, territory, and territoriality’. In it, he (122) compares space, a more fundamental concept than landscape, to books and sand; like books, it can be browsed, flipped through, yet it has no beginning or end. This reminded me of how ‘A Thousand Plateaus: […]