Ever since I read Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’ and watched Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’, I’ve thought of writing an article on that addressed faciality on social media, which is what Burnham does, in his own way, during the segment on ‘A White Woman’s Instagram’. Then came the summer of […]
I already wrote about this, but I went through only one of the articles related to the topic, which is that what do children have to do with landscapes? I pointed out that they don’t have much to do with it, really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are […]
How should we live? Or how might we live? Friedrich Nietzsche accepts the latter formulation and rejects the former formulation, as discussed by him in ‘The Four Great Errors’, which can be found in ‘The Twilight of Idols’. To make sense of this, he lists and goes through these four grave errors. The first error […]
What do children have to do with landscapes? Well, not much really, considering that no one sees the world as a landscape when they are born. It’s the adults who teach them to see the world that way. This is actually a topic that really hasn’t been investigated by landscape researchers. I could be wrong, […]
I enjoy selecting something and then writing something about it, as I read it. I particularly like Félix Guattari’s essays, because it’s like you just have something, about something, and that’s it. Okay, I can kind of guess what he might have written, without even looking at the titles, there’s that, fair enough, but the […]
Once more I’m going to check out something short, ‘Subjectless Action’ by Félix Guattari, a psychoanalysis and semiotics conference presentation that took place in 1974. Now, you don’t need to know a whole lot about his work, or the works of Gilles Deleuze or Michel Foucault, to name a few, to figure out what this […]
I don’t know what it is that I was looking for, but somehow I ended up looking up posthumanism and linguistics. Anyway, I landed on Adrian Pablé’s article, ‘Linguistics for the apocalypse’, in which he proclaims that linguistics is doomed, because of, well, what he seems to think is nonsense. What is he (104) referring […]
I wanted to write something different from the last three essays that focus on politics. I chose a random book chapter, which can be found in ‘Molecular Revolution in Brazil’ by Félix Guattari and Suely Rolnik. Its title is ‘Emotion, Energy, Body, Sex’. It’s short, what, ten pages or so that it should be a […]
This essay was prompted by getting a flu and suffering through it, as you do, because there isn’t much you can do about it. Okay, it could have been another strain of COVID, or RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, as was they were making rounds recently. Anyway, it was … let’s say … not great. I […]
If you’ve read their other works, it shouldn’t surprise how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari conclude their final book, ‘What Is Philosophy?’. For them (201), most people are conformists. Why? Well, because life is easier that way. People are happy to repeat what others have said, over and over again, instead of trying to come […]