[D-G] Getting Started with Deleuze

Andrew Culp acculp at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 25 13:06:36 PST 2006


As for secondary lit, Eugene Holland's Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus; Introduction to Schizoanalysis works as a good reference for how AO interacts with Lacan, and how to situation schizoanalysis.  Brian Massumi's User's Guide is really good for a reference text as well.

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>From: Santiago Colas <scolas at umich.edu>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2006 2:53 PM
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>Subject: Re: [D-G] Getting Started with Deleuze
>
>these are all good suggestions.  i found dialogues and negotiations  
>(the two books of interviews) to be helpful companions as well.
>
>also, spinoza: practical philosophy was actually the first book i  
>ever read by either of them.  though that also just confirms what  
>dylan told you since my first move through their work was motivated  
>by an interest in spinoza.
>On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Rumagin at aol.com wrote:
>
>> 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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