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Open or closed?

I’m known as the discourse guy and the theory guy. There’s always this, oh, I bet he’s gonna talk about language and how language does this and that. That’s fair enough. It’s not that I’m only about language, but what I talk and write about is often concerned with language. This is also clear from […]

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ΦFTU, or how the Given is Given

This time I’ll taking a closer look at Félix Guattari’s ‘Schizoanalytic Cartographies’. Why? Well, if you are familiar with his takes on Louis Hjelmslev, alone and/or together with Gilles Deleuze, you are in for a treat. To be honest, it is a very difficult book. It’s also very technical with a lot of tables and […]

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Nth-articulation

This is continuation to the previous essay, in which I focus on stratification. I did my best to avoid mentioning assemblages and abstract machines in that essay. Why? Well, to be clear, they are relevant to stratification, but I thought it would make more sense to discuss that first and then move on to assemblages […]