PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast Overdose - Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus ft. Ian Buchanan (1/2)
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Jul 8, 2020 PlasticPills and Chris chat with Ian Buchanan, an expert on Deleuze and founder of the Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal. They discuss the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari's work and that of Foucault, the concept of Desire and the State, potential misinterpretations of 'A Thousand Plateaus,' and the significance of desire in understanding history and oppression.
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Embrace the Wild Ride of Thousand Plateaus
- Thousand Plateaus overwhelms readers with rich, provocative ideas rather than straightforward sense.
- Early engagement with it should embrace its wild ride and intense intellectual stimulation.
Read Primary Texts to Avoid Misinterpretation
- Secondary readings often multiply misinterpretations and trivialize Deleuze and Guattari's work.
- Engaging directly with primary texts is essential for good scholarship and authentic understanding.
Desire as Surplus Value and Occupation
- Deleuze and Guattari critique psychoanalytic and Marxist ideas of desire by introducing desire as a form of surplus value.
- Desire acts like a military occupation extracting returns, reshaping how desire functions socially and politically.