A Thousand Plateaus

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A Thousand Plateaus is the second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, published 8 years after publishing the first volume, Anti-Oedipus. Many topics are covered in this book, including noology and political economy.

The concept of plateaus can be defined as follows: "Each plateau is an orchestration of crashing bricks extracted from a variety of disciplinary edifices. They carry traces of their former emplacement, which give them a spin defining the arc of their vector. The vectors are meant to converge at a volatile juncture, but one that is sustained, as an open equilibrium of moving parts each within its own trajectory" (Deleuze & Guatarri, 1980, p. xiv)

Book structure

The book consists of the following chapters, that can be read in any order, apart from the introduction and conclusion:

  • Rhizome (Introduction)
  • 1914: One or Several Wolves?
  • 10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)
  • November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics
  • 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs
  • November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?
  • Year Zero: Faciality
  • 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?"
  • 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity
  • 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible...
  • 1837: Of the Refrain
  • 1227: Treatise on Nomadology; The War Machine
  • 7000 BC.: Apparatus of the Capture
  • 1440: The Smooth and the Striated

Each of the sections is dated because at these dates the 'compositions' being described experienced their highest degree of intensity (Deleuze & Guatarri, 1980, p. xv)

Sources

Deleuze, G., Guattari, F. (1980). A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 2 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of Mille Plateaux. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8264-7694-5.

--Tom Heinen 23:02, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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