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A Thousand Plateaus

Author Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Type book
Year "1987"

A-Thousand-Plateaus.pdf

Contents

Translator’s Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy Brian Massumi ix

Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgments xvi

Author’s Note xx

  1. Introduction: Rhizome 3 ==Root, radicle, and rhizome== Issues concerning books The One and the Multiple ==Tree and rhizome== The geographical directions, Orient, Occident, America The misdeeds of the tree ==What is a plateau?==

  2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? 26 Neurosis and psychosis For a theory of multiplicities Packs The unconscious and the molecular

  3. ==10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)== 39 ==Strata== ==Double articulation (segmentarity)== ==What constitutes the unity of a stratum== ==Milieus== ==The diversity within a stratum: forms and substances, epistrata and parastrata== ==Content and expression== ==The diversity among strata== ==The molar and the molecular== ==Abstract machine and assemblage: their comparative states== ==Metastrata==

  4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics 75 The order-word Indirect discourse Order-words, acts, and incorporeal transformations Dates Content and expression, and their respective variables ==The aspects of the assemblage== Constants, variables, and continuous variation Music Style Major and minor ==Becoming== Death and escape, figure and metamorphosis

  5. 587 B.C.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs 111 The signifying despotic regime The passional subjective regime The two kinds of delusion and the problem of psychiatry The ancient history of the Jewish people ==The line of flight and the prophet== The face, turning away, and betrayal The Book ==The system of subjectivity: consciousness and passion, Doubles== Domestic squabble and office squabble ==Redundancy== ==The figures of deterritorialization== ==Abstract machine and diagram== ==The generative, the transformational, the diagrammatic, and the machinic==

  6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 149 ==The body without organs, waves and intensities== The egg Masochism, courtly love, and the Tao The strata and the plane of consistency Antonin Artaud The art of caution The three-body problem Desire, plane, selection, and composition

  7. Year Zero: Faciality 167 White wall, black hole The abstract machine of faciality Body, head, and face Face and landscape The courtly novel ==Theorems of deterritorialization== The face and Christ The two figures of the face: frontal view and profile, the turning away Dismantling the face

  8. 1874: Three Novellas, or “What Happened?” 192 The novella and the tale: the secret The three lines Break, crack, and rupture The couple, the double, and the clandestine
  9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity 208 Segmentarity, primitive and civilized The molar and the molecular ==Fascism and totalitarianism== The segmented line and the quantum flow Gabriel Tarde ==Masses and classes== ==The abstract machine: mutation and overcoding== ==What is a power center?== The three lines and the dangers of each Fear, clarity, power, and death

  10. 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible… 232 ==Becoming== Three aspects of sorcery: multiplicity; the Anomalous, or the Outsider; transformations Individuation and Haecceity: five o’clock in the evening Longitude, latitude, and the plane of consistency The two planes, or the two conceptions of the plane ==Becoming-woman, becoming-child, becoming-animal, becoming-molecular: zones of proximity== Becoming imperceptible The secret Majority, minority, minoritarian The minoritarian character and dissymmetry of becoming: double becoming Point and line, memory and becoming Becoming and block The opposition between punctual systems and multilinear systems Music, painting, and becomings The refrain ==Theorems of deterritorialization continued== Becoming versus imitation

  11. 1837: Of the Refrain 310 In the dark, at home, toward the world Milieus and rhythm The placard and the territory Expression as style: rhythmic faces, melodic landscapes Bird song ==Territoriality, assemblages, and interassemblages== ==The territory and the earth, the Natal== The problem of consistency ==Machinic assemblage and abstract machine== Classicism and milieus Romanticism, the territory, the earth, and the people Modern art and the cosmos Form and substance, forces and material Music and refrains; the great and the small refrain

  12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine 351 ==The two poles of the State== ==The irreducibility and exteriority of the war machine== The man of war Minor and major: the minor sciences The body and esprit de corps Thought, the State, and nomadology ==First aspect: the war machine and nomad space== ==Second aspect: the war machine and the composition of people, the nomad number== ==Third aspect: the war machine and nomad affects== Free action and work ==The nature of assemblages: tools and signs, arms and jewelry== Metallurgy, itinerancy, and nomadism ==The machinic phylum and technological lineages== ==Smooth space, striated space, holey space== The war machine and war: the complexities of the relation

  13. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture 424 The paleolithic State ==Primitive groups, towns, States, and world-wide organizations== Anticipate, ward off The meaning of the word “last” (marginalism) Exchange and stock ==Capture: landownership (rent), fiscal organization (taxation), public works (profit)== The problem of violence The forms of the State and the three ages of Law ==Capitalism and the State== Subjection and enslavement Issues in axiomatics

  14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated 474 ==The technological model (textile)== The musical model The maritime model The mathematical model (multiplicities) The physical model The aesthetic model (nomad art)

Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines 501 Notes 517 Bibliography (compiled by Brian Massumi) 579 Index 587 List of Illustrations 611

Complete Index (1987 edition)

Adam, Paul: 572 n. 9 Aesthetics: and smooth and striated space, 492-99

Bach, Johann Sebastian: 511 Bachelard,Gaston: 236,238,313,555n.32 Badiou, Alain: 537 n. 20 Baer, Karl Ernst von: 46-47, 53, 254 Baillon, M. H.: 520 n. 20 Bailly, Jean-Christophe: 521 n. 25 Bakhtin, Mikhail: 82, 523 n. 5, 524 n. 10, 525 n. 21 Balandier, Georges: 535 n. 4 Balazs, Etienne: 565 n. 15 Balibar, Etienne: 569 n. 48 Balmes, Francois: 537 n. 20 Balzac, Honore de: 266 Bamberger, J.-R: 523 n. 5 Bantu dialects: 102 Barnes, Mary: 138 Barraque, Jean: 532 n. 3, 545 n. 87, 550 n. 48, 551 n. 51 Barthes, Roland: 533 n. 7, 545 n. 88 Bartok, Bela: 342

Earth: and deterritorialization, 40

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