The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animati

The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari Intersections and Animations Charles J. Stivale, a scholar in French literary and cultural studies, tries to suppose Deleuze and Guattaris philosophical concepts with practical studies on culture, analyzing films, cyberspace, and Cajun dance. Although he says that the goal of the retain is to provide an initial orientation to Deleuze and Guattaris collaborative works, it is non a simple job at all for those exculpatory of Deleuzean concepts to follow the flow of his thought (ix). He provides short explications of the concepts and quotations from Deleuze and Guattaris books before his application, however only the readers, who are familiar with Delezean concepts, seem to be able to articulate the whole idea. As the title implies, Stivale considers Deleuze and Guattaris works as expressing thought that arises from twain individual, displace subjectivities(xi). He attempts to grasp and animate this two-foldedness, both sorting out two different voices of Deleuze and Guattari and presenting the intersection between them. This two-fold thought, as Stivale stresses, should be understood non only as an overlap of two particular sensibilities and modes of knowing just now also as one of action and opening outward, of formulations, unheard-of juxtapositions of concepts, ridiculous couplings, that is, rhizomatics of n-1 dimensions (24). In his introductory chapter, he differentiates Deleuze as a philosopher from Guattari as a psychotherapist and political activist first, he explicates Deleuzes passion of the concept, examining Deleuzes relation with Nietzsche and Foucault and several(prenominal) concepts including body without organ, image of thought, and rhizome second, h... ...o his attempt to bridge over the abstract gap between the local and the global within cultural studies with Deleuze-Guattarian concepts. His point-of-view of cultural studies, especially, is valuable in terms that he recognizes the dang er within its becoming-discipline These geopolitical negotiations of forms and feelings in Cajun dance are precisely the proper focus of a cultural studies understood not in a limited, territorialized sense of dueling disciplines between adjoining theoretical and abstract articulations and strategies (186-7). If one can keep his/her own distance in practice session this book, it will serve as a great source book for further research on cultural studies. Work CitedThe Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari Intersections and Animations. By Charles J. Stivale. New York The Guildford Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 361.