Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and GuattariPatricia Pisters, Catherine M. Lord This book focuses on the micro-political implications of the work of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari). General philosophical articles are coupled to more specific analyses of films (such as Fight Club and Schindler's List) and other expressions of contemporary culture. The choice of giving specific attention to the analyses of images and sounds is not only related to the fact that audiovisual products are increasingly dominant in contemporary life, but also to the fact that film culture in itself is changing ("in transition") in capitalist culture. From a marginal place at the periphery of economy and culture at large, audiovisual products (ranging from art to ads) seem to have moved to the centre of the network society, as Manuel Castells calls contemporary society. Typical Deleuzian concepts such as micro-politics, the Body without Organs, becoming-minoritarian, pragmatics and immanence are explored in their philosophical implications and political force, whether utopian or dystopian. What can we do with Deleuze in contemporary media culture? A recurring issue throughout the book is the relationship between theory and practice, to which several solutions and problems are given. |
Contents
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A Political Philosophy from Marx and Beyond | 103 |
Surplus and Residual of the Network | 125 |
Is Bess a Bike? Gender Capitalism and the Politics of a | 143 |
Towards a Sustainable | 177 |
Politics of Immanence | 205 |
The Return | 221 |
Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks DO THE RIGHT THING | 235 |
Notes | 251 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 299 |
Revolutionary Elitism in Cyberspace | 159 |
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Page 51 - The crystal, the globe of life as one calls it, far from being hard and cold to the touch, has walls of thinnest air. If I press them all will burst. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.
Page 55 - But it is a mistake, this extreme precision, this orderly and military progress; a convenience, a lie. There is always deep below it, even when we arrive punctually at the appointed time with our white waistcoats and polite formalities, a rushing stream of broken dreams, nursery rhymes, street cries, half-finished sentences and sights...
Page 159 - But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you ca'n't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Page 97 - This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times.
Page 80 - The BwO is the. field of immanence of desire, the plane of consistency specific to desire (with desire defined as a process of production without reference to any exterior agency, whether it be a lack that hollows it out or a pleasure that fills it).
Page 130 - It is a system in which reality itself (that is, people's material/symbolic existence) is entirely captured, fully immersed in a virtual image setting, in the world of make believe, in which appearances are not just on the screen through which experience is communicated, but they become the experience.
Page 13 - A theorizing intellectual, for us, is no longer a subject, a representing or representative consciousness. Those who act and struggle are no longer represented, either by a group or a union that appropriates the right to stand as their conscience. Who speaks and acts? It is always a multiplicity, even within the person who speaks and acts. All of us are 'groupuscules.
Page 80 - We come to the gradual realization that the BwO is not at all the opposite of the organs. The organs are not its enemies. The enemy is the organism. The BwO is opposed not to the organs but to that organization of the organs called the organism.
Page 209 - From the viewpoint of racism, there is no exterior, there are no people on the outside. There are only people who should be like us and whose crime it is not to be.
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| Title | Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari Volume 11 of Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition Series Film culture in transition |
| Editors | Patricia Pisters, Catherine M. Lord |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Amsterdam University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 9053564721, 9789053564721 |
| Length | 302 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism Philosophy / Aesthetics Social Science / Popular Culture |
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