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ramjet_oddity's avatar

I suggest "What is Philosophy?" as their most clearest and also imo best work, there's an essay I wrote on their understanding of science I can link

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Lucy Keer's avatar

Yes, I'd be interested to see it!

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ramjet_oddity's avatar

https://listed.to/@pachabelcanon/44112/science-in-deleuze-and-guattari-s-what-is-philosophy

This does feel rather juvenile reading now, given that I haven't been writing philosophy for long, and I also wasn't very familiar with French epistemology/philosophy of science and its debates, which were very influential on them, and I've been working on updated versions of these topics. So recently a friend of mine wrote up an essay that touches on French/Continental epistemology, which I could share the Doc if you'd like (in some ways I'd say that they're "rigorous meta-rationality" even)

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MichaeL Roe's avatar

I guess if you really must read Anti-Oedipus...

You could take a look at what they mean by "desiring machines".

And, if I recall correctly, they raise a question: whose fantasy is the Oedipus complex anyway? That is, with which character are people identifying to make the trope popular?

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MichaeL Roe's avatar

I suppose, Marina Warner's books on fairy tales are coming towards a similar critique of Freudian interpretations as in Anti-Oedipus, from a different direction in a different style.

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MichaeL Roe's avatar

Bah. In a possibly doomed attempt to figure out what Deleuze and Guattari are on about ... they are alluding to Freud's analysis of Schreber's account of his psychotic experiences. Which, as luck would have it, are also alluded to in the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion in the form of NERV and SEELE. So both Deleuze and Gainax are pillaging the same source material.

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