Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' (Part 1/4)

In this episode, I begin my presentation of Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus by covering chapter 1, "Introduction: Rhizome" (0:00), chapter 2, "1914: One or Severeal Wolves?" (15:25) and chapter 3, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think it is?)" (24:12).

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[moch.farisdzulfiqar]

The true rhizome about this video this the ads.

[ageofbumfires]

Great video. As a bonus, I had a particularly funny and seamless AD reterritorialization of the video which was "Rhizomes are [Ad pops up] ... looking for the most delicious snack on the planet." Couldn't have scripted that better.

[Contextcatcher]

Eye-opener: one of the secrets of Deleuze & Guatarri is the work Elias Canetti especially his lifework 'Crowds and Power' (Masse und Macht). The layered structure and content of this work had to be an inspiration for them for many years. Even fundamental idea of rhizome is fine located in this work. In original language German 'crowds' is called more abstract Masse. Masse (with quality: multitude and equality) was for Canett in 'matter of fact' the rhizome for almost all great transformations (in German more meaningful: Verwandlung) in history human psyche. Canetti was a great opposer of Freud. His interpretation of Schreber in Crowds and Power was totally different. This had also influenced Deleuze and Guatarri during L'Anti Oepide.

Chemist(!) Canetti wrote only one novel Auto da Fe (Die Blendung, title referring to blindness) there you can find the first roots of his idea of mass/crowds.

[Zing_art]

Also, if I am not wrong, you’re probably talking about the starlings (birds which form patterns in flight)

[sirako]

thank you, I', watching EVERYthing on youtube about this and this should be in the top results, sadly it's not and it took me months to get here. Eventho I understand this topic fairly good, I needed this kind of explanation, I don't know how to put it. also, no ads for me, cause I block it, haha, to the next video!!
tnhanks again

[shannonm.townsend]

I could see how James Lindsay's audience could be terrified by these concepts: the sheer physicality of the metaphors, lends itself to a 19th-century dread, although the overall impression is one of positivity

[og]

super helpful! I really appreciate you putting all these videos together!

[jenskna]

hilariously funny - close to Marx Brothers and Monty Python! holes - matter which is faster than the speed of light - YEAH!!!

[rama_lama_ding_dong]

they do a cute trick with preconscious as a state prior to any possible repression of Oedipus meaning it must be transferred at some point 🥰

[rizwik]

Your videos are really great, and it would be nice to have English subtitles for non-english viewers ! :)

[witchdrew]

This helped me so much. Thank you. Is it possible to get a pdf file of the transcript from one of your patrons?

[carrosheena]

Thanks. Lots of help while I‘m reading this

[Zing_art]

I thought D&G implied that the stratas are interpenetrated and which is why none of them are superior to the other. If inter penetrated, then how do these empty spaces arise in between them?

[karenbanks]

Regards the BwO as being the soccer field etc, how might one characterize the Plane of Consistency - within the context of this metaphor of soccer field?

[darrellrohling]

Diggin your content here, but way too many advert ‘stratums’ that intrude.

[rama_lama_ding_dong]

tel al sultan os "hill(becoming city) of authority" but tel is hebrew and sultan is arabic which is interesting so the aramaic?

[hareeshscifi]

Apparently rabbits cannot digest corn...

[rama_lama_ding_dong]

this is the best fucking explanation of B w/o O what's zizek's problem? srs question

[bramsanjanssan]

I like it but I keep getting lost in the jargon, It also feel to me as if they are very human-centric.