[D-G] Getting Started with Deleuze

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Hi

I'm an anthropologist, (aren't we all at some point) i came at it from Anti-Oedipus first, which first time flew over my head, but got easier the more i went back to it. I then did some readers and got into a thosand Plateaus. That was about five years ago. Since then ive taken a random approach to all his texts, to various secondary sources too, things like conversations and essays with his buddies and contemporaries - i jump backwards and forwards pre 68 to late 80s back to the 70s to now and ive always thought that is the best way. An immersion across time, space and place - for that matter topic also.  Recently ive seen the merits of develling into Spinoza too and ive found that really helps, but i think Deleuze and Guattari are trying to say dont look at thought or their thought as a certain sequence, even if the person who introduced me to D&G hit me with Nietzcshe, Freud, Hiedegger, Arendt, Benjamin, Lacan, Deridda and others before Deleuze.

I think the advice given by gondominnie makes sense 'what is interesting is if you come from one point of interest.'

Always have your questions or ideas or the things you want to relate it to in mind and that melts the haze - it really does. and its opens up pathways/connections you might not normally make. Their works inspires new perspectives but you have to keep your eyes open and on many differents points, affects and layers to catch the sense. I also think its a question of time.

But all this is my POV, nothing more

Dylan




gondominnie at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>  
>there's no sequence, what is interesting is if you come from one point of interest
>  like if you're reader of Proust, you will see the titles, say Difference and Repetion, and be seduced by the words of the books and feel free to pick some subject or another.
>  Now I have not done it, but I got the idea you could think A-O is may-be backing up the reading of ATP in some way, some ideal way, ideal way is not to say impossible or utopic way, a good idea would be to read Kafka first before the two volumes. It's easier.
>  I d say thus, today I would say, read Kafka first, read it fast, then, take a closer study of Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1 & 2.
>   
>  Could you explain better what is difficult for you in a more detailed demeanor? It could be interesting for helping you to say that .
>   
>  Regds
>   
>  G.
>  
>Myles Sullivan <mylessullivan81 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  Dear Deleuze-Guatarri List,
>
>I am new to the study of Deleuze and Guattari. I find their work 
>incredibly interesting but also very difficult and at times almost 
>incomprehensible.
>I was wondering if there is a certain sequence in which I should study 
>their texts? So far I have tried jumping in at Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand 
>Plateaus.
>Any advice for a beginning D and G student would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Best,
>Myles
>
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