Explaining Deleuze with drum machines

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The two Suicide songs played here are "Frankie Teardrop" and "Rocket USA"

[angelphetamine]

deleuzianism is like a gift that keeps on giving. i was suicidal for years, thinking i was indeed a "faulty copy" but i had an almost religious elation when i read anti-oedipus.

[aeloh]

When I was a child, I hated everything I drew. I could not represent objects as my peers could. This saddened me greatly. My Mother, in her sweetness, would say "your art isn't bad, it just looks like no one else's." Apparently, according to Deleuze, my Mother was based af 🤔💯💯💯

[daylearmstrong]

Finally, Deleuze was explained to me. I don't have to kill anyone now

[ivanovskism]

Since I was born my modus operandi has always been rhizomatic, and for my whole life I've been made to think, and thus tried to operate, arborescently. Ever since I watched this video 2 years ago... it has freed me, and has brought great value into my life. Without a doubt, this has been the most positively influential and valuable video I've ever come across. Thank you so much.

[hhdhpublic]

This was absolutely eye opening. Deleuze is extremely difficult to understand and you managed to make aspect of him really, really easy to understand and follow. Thank you for this and I must admit that I hope that you make more Deleuze videos in future!

[xeroeddie]

We read The Thousand Plateaus as part of a course when studying architecture. The concept of rhizom applied to a modern way of thinking about cities where everything doesn't grow out of a center but is an interconnected network. The text itself was unreadable to me, but the concept was very applicable.

[melindeer]

"This is why Deleuzians love potatoes" is not a sentence I thought I'd be hearing today.

[robinmakesthings]

Andrei Tarkovsky’s film theory in Sculpting in Time dealt with a lot of this stuff, especially with the Suicide example. He wanted to see what it was that film could do that no other medium could. Hence films like Mirror.

[TMMx]

Another good illustration is what happened when the first synthesizers were developed. Nowadays, synthesizers are mostly played with a keyboard, like a piano. The folks who developed the first synthesizers tried to resist this. They not only made unique sounds, they had unique interfaces. Playing the earliest synthesizers was unlike playing any other kind of instrument. The inventors of these instruments were thinking about them rhizomatically and trying to resist those who wanted to treat them arborescently.

[bailey]

I just started reading Anti-Oedipus, and this video shortly after was suggested to me. I'm glad my personal CIA agent is looking out for me and giving me good suggestions like this!

[AlienObserver]

never expected to see a philosophical analysis of Suicide's music. much respect!

[kamrynm]

Shout out to Tendies123 for supporting this guy for so long

[condor]

“We’re tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They’ve made us suffer too much.”

Well of course! I was thinking the same thing!

[Skaeppy_]

This has to be the best and simplest explanation of Deleuze I have seen so far :D you really get the core concept, and also understand how it is related to the majority of his other ideas. God job!

[sammosaurusrex]

Kind of funny that JBP’s book is called “Maps of Meaning, ” when his whole deal is that there’s only one map, the one charted by Jung, not that new map”s” can be created, a la his archnemesis, the postmodern neomarxist Deleuze

[drewarnold]

It's fascinating that they use the drum machine as an example of representation in this video. Interesting enough, the drum set itself was also a representation. When it was first conceived, it was a representation of a rhythm section of multiple players playing different percussion instruments. It brought those instruments under the control of 1 person to mimic the multiple players. Soon through the birth of jazz blues and later rock and roll, the drum set no longer became representational. Groove was born. A new thing. A new concept. A new paradigm. Groove is the subtleties between and around the notes. It falls out by default with a single player. This is something that was not a property or product of orchstrated percussion sections.

[rcnash]

A philosophical inquiry for the ages. How can there be so many musicians, yet never enough drummers?

[cthubol]

as an experimental musician who is interested in rhythm and having be deeply touched by deleuze while studying art, this hits home. my er1 is also thankful (fm synthesis is dialectics and i won't elaborate)

[AmodinAM]

Still, one of the best video essays ever

[konniptions]

You broke down in 14min what took me hours and hours of various podcasts to have a slight understanding of.
Please keep up the great work!