DELEUZE AND GUATTARI'S A THOUSAND PLATEAUS by Brent Adkins ( 9780748686452 )

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DELEUZE AND GUATTARI'S A THOUSAND PLATEAUS
A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION AND GUIDE

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Brent Adkins

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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

18 May, 2015

Pages:

272

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Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari's radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself. This book will appeal to teachers of the text or anyone wanting to engage with it at a deeper level. -- cover

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The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari's radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself. To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding A Thousand Plateaus is 'assemblage.' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari's answer to the perennial philosophical question, "What is a thing?" and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Each plateau is therefore concerned with a particular type of assemblage (e.g. social, political, linguistic) and its tendencies toward both stasis and change.

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