Week 13

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Week 13

• Postmodern Subjectivity

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• Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand
  Plateaus. Literary Theory An Anthology. 2nd ed.
  Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford, UK
  Blackwell, 2004. 378-86.

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A book

• an assemblage
• a multiplicity
• a body without organs
• a machine
• desire
• ? ideology

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The first type the root-book

• the classical book
• mimesis The book imitates the world, the world
  imitates nature (379).
• subjective organic interiority
• binaries, the One that becomes two

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http//www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/19720629.htm
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The second type the radicle-system

• The fascicular root
• A book all the more total for being fragmented
• The principal root has aborted, its tip has been
  destroyed an immediate indefinite multiplicity
  of secondary roots grafts onto it and undergoes a
  flourishing development. . . . but the roots
  unity subsists . . . demanding an even more
  comprehensive secret unity, or a more extensive
  totality . . . . (379-80)
• Nietzsche, James Joyce

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The third type a rhizome

• subterranean stem
• Characteristics
• 1. connection
• 2. heterogeneity
• 3. multiplicity
• 4. asignifying rupture

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• Contrary to a deeply rooted belief, the book is
  not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome
  with the world . . . . (383)
• Example
• the Pink Panther

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A plateau

• A plateau is always in the middle, not at the
  beginning or the end.
• A rhizome is made of plateaus.
• A rhizome has no beginning or end it is always
  in the middle, between things . . . . The tree is
  filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely
  alliance. The tree imposes the verb to be, but
  the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction,
  and . . . and . . . and . . . (385-86).

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• Discussion

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Francis Bacon - Study after Velazquez's Portrait
of Pope Innocent X 1953 http//www.artquotes.net
/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm
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Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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• The End