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Everyone knows it

I think I was looking for something that had to do with how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari differentiate neurosis and psychosis in their book ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I ended up landing on this article, ‘Living the intensive order: Common sense and schizophrenia in Deleuze and Guattari’, written by Julie Van der […]

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Id is what id is

This time I’ll be dealing with machines as that’s all there is, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2) argue in ‘Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I could explain this by using the term they use in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’, that is to say assemblages, as all they (22) know are assemblages, but […]

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Interpenetration: The Ins and Outs of Social Intercourse

In the previous essay, like in multiple essays before, I focused on Valentin Vološinov’s ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Language’. I was able to cover the second chapter of the first part of the book, as well as a large chunk the fourth chapter of the second part of the book. In summary, it was […]