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BLAKE 3:16
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posted 15 November 2004 03:56 AM

I've been kind of bugged by these two anarchist philosophers, due to their fancy Frenchness, obscurity, and excuses for shitty activism. Since reading Nietzsche and learning a lot as an adult and reading Guattari's early work I'm much more sympathetic.

I'm currently reading Nomadology: The War Machine by these two guys and find it quite crazy and wonderful.

Other takers?

http://www.nomadology.com/gate.html

http://www.rhizome.org/

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skdadl
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posted 15 November 2004 07:34 AM

BLAKE 3.16, I confess that I have read almost nothing of theirs and so have not earned the right to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway: Not the rhizomes! Noooo! Anything but the rhizomes!

Sorry. I just had to get that out. We were ambushed once early on by a Deleuzian apostle who was into the rhizomes in a way we couldn't penetrate, so we coped with ridicule.

But I'm prepared to believe that that is philistine of me/us, so I hope that you and others can discipline me out of my ignorance and philistinism.

(I'm actually quite good at cultivating real rhizomes. There is an art.)

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Michelle
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posted 15 November 2004 07:37 AM

It wasn't that we couldn't penetrate it, it was that he was an insufferable, boring prick. There. I said it.

I'm sure the real deal is much more interesting, though!

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skdadl
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posted 15 November 2004 07:40 AM

There was that too.

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rasmus
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posted 15 November 2004 10:16 AM

Dolce & Gabbana

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Chris Borst
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posted 26 November 2004 07:38 PM

I've read many chunks of Deleuze, and while I'm definitely a fan, I've found that he & Guattari are the big-name pomos that I refer to least in my writings. I'm not sure why that is.

Deleuze's The Logic of Sense is one of the best pieces of technical philosophy of recent times, and his work on the canonical philosophers is brilliant. His book on Kant is the only secondary work on Kant I have ever recommended.

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Rand McNally
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posted 26 November 2004 09:44 PM

Chris Borst, I agree whole heartedly about his work on Kant, also his study of Spinoza is very good. I am quite found of his early studies, his later stuff I find so so; parts of "A Thousand Plateaus" being a exception.

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