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 […]
I tend to write on whatever Gilles Deleuze and/or Félix Guattari have written or I somehow end up on some tangent that pertains to their work, typically in connection with either discourse or landscape. That’s partly because those are included in the name of this blog. I haven’t really focused on other topics that they’ve […]
This month flew by, that’s for sure. I mainly spent it working on a couple of articles. I also spent tens of hours playing a video game. Oh, and what a treat it was, to just play and play, like … no … not like there’s no tomorrow … but like today is, suddenly, already, […]
I didn’t plan on this, really, like at all. Then again, this is something that has bothered me for a long time, so I knew that I’d bring it up at some point. Anyway, so, landscape is a visual concept. It may not have been that way, like way back, as I’ve discussed in the […]
It took me a couple of weeks to get everything done, even though I only had like 10 pages left to cover. Yeah, I ended up on all kinds of tangents. Anyway, this time I’ll be going through ‘How Do We Recognize Structuralism?’ by Gilles Deleuze. It can be found in ‘Desert Islands and Other […]
I’ve mentioned structuralism a number of times, occasionally going on a tangent about it, but I haven’t really explained it, nor why it gets rejected by, well, just about everyone except, perhaps, linguists. Perhaps it is time to do that and then, later on, contrast it with what became known as post-structuralism (but that’s something […]
Once again, I planned to write on other things, and I did. It’s just that I never finished those essays and ended up writing something else, which is this. Anyway, so I ended up focusing on what Deborah Cameron refers to as verbal hygiene in her book that carries that as its name, ‘Verbal Hygiene’. […]
Friedrich Nietzsche summarizes the development of Western philosophy, that is to say according to how we think, in ‘How the “True World” Finally Became a Fiction: History of an Error’, as contained in ‘Twilight of the Idols: Or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer’. This is a fascinating … what to call it … a […]
I’ve explained how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari deal with identity and subjectivity, but I think a bit of repetition won’t hurt. I’ll try to keep this as simple as possible, like I did in the previous essay, trying to avoid their jargon as much as possible, even though that’s quite tricky, considering how complex […]