Gilles Deleuze

Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon reason, that these base desires interfered with pure reason, and that these base desires were therefore evil. This was often used to keep the masses subservient and obeying, there was no need for them to fight for a better life, as those in power could…

attack from the “barbarians” is what justifies the members of the Empire's inhumane acts toward innocent natives. As the Magistrate attempts to speak for the natives, he shows control over them by taking away their voices and replacing them with his own thoughts representing his own motives. The idea of the voiceless oppressed comes from Spivak’s influential piece about the possibility of speaking for the subaltern, in which she criticizes poststructuralist thinkers Gilles Deleuze's and Michael…

The two theorist that I have chosen to characterize are Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault. First, I am going to start with Michel Foucault. Foucault is widely known for shaping the understanding of power. According to Foucault, power is what shapes us as humans. “Foucault uses the term ‘power/knowledge’ to signify that power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’” (PowerCube.) Foucault states that power and knowledge go hand in hand. Foucault…

It is well known that Deleuze had a negative opinion about comparative philosophy. In his eyes, comparative philosophy represented a certain type of ressentiment and a perverse satisfaction in exposing the contradictions of the other thinker; his method was monographic. 1 Adorno, on the other hand, was opposed to a notion of a Lebensphilosophie in general, holding that any attempt to ground philosophy on a notion of lived experience was nothing but blind self-assertion.2 Undermining the spirit…

rhythm, and form, but music has been at best, ignored with respect to philosophical thought. Deleuze is one philosopher who has tackled music straight on. An analysis of the scholarly reception of Deleuze 's influence on music reveals the problem with using language to speak about non narrative topics such as music. I am writing on the scholarly reception of Deleuze…

Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Technology of Normalization Prenatal genetic testing is a technology made available to more accurately determine whether or not a child could have a birth ‘defect’. The most common birth defects tested for are Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect (Government of Canada, 2013). This paper asserts first that prenatal genetic testing is a technology of normalization, which labels disability as abnormal and a feared outcome, and second that…

autobiographical texts as a fragmentary literary genre. It argues that while fragmentary writings are famously celebrated in postmodernist thoughts for its potential to break through authority, it can also be as easily exploited by a unified discourse exactly because it is fragmentary, which made it more fragile to rewriting and reinterpretation. This paper—again—contrasts Said’s celebration of essay as a genre suitable for criticism, and Deleuze and Guattari’s ahistorical appropriation of…

Adnan Aljedani Professor: Charlyn Ingwerson Core 0101 14 October 2015 A Conversation with Michel Foucault First of all, Michel Foucault was mentioned about power, "Power is apt to lead to a number of misunderstandings-misunderstandings with respect to its nature, its form, and its unity" (page 313). I agree with him, According to article right wing social scientists always perceive power in terms of sovereignty and law. And Marxists see power in terms of the state apparatus. Foucault, on the…

related but are distinctly different. Visualized networks indicate that relational capital uses social capital literature in citations. The findings suggest the relationship in the literature of the two concepts with a need for future research. 9. Saxena (2015) looks at a different form of relational capital known as Imagined capital and tries to test its sociality with small tourism firms established in Scarborough, Bedlington, and Whitby within Yorkshire. The key aspect was to give a…

In Chapter 3 of “Theorizing race: Examining experiences of racialized families in the child welfare system” by Daniel Kikulwe he focuses on the theorization of race, using power,knowledge, and the subject which is Michel Foucault’s theory. This chapter mentions how race and racism is limited towards child welfare institutions. In chapter 11, “Deconstructing Hybrid Spaces: Internationally Educated Nurses of Colour in Canada” by Nadia Prendergast it talks about educated nurses of colour not having…