Woman in Limbo: Deleuze and His Br(others)
1984; University of Wisconsin Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 3/4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3684774
ISSN1527-2095
Autores Tópico(s)Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
ResumoResponding to the appearance of Deleuze and Guattari's (D + G) Mille Plateaux in 1980, Catherine Clement pointed out what could be said about most of Deleuze's books, whether or not his is the only signature: it is a book of history, economy, ethnology, politics, aesthetics, linguistics. And a book of philosophy? philosophy. Or maybe not. It's writing and thinking. Chagrined people those with thin skin you know? will sit worrying in their corner, smaller and smaller. The others, philosophers or not, will amuse themselves. And even seriously.2 Seriously. For some, especially in the United States, this adverb is irrelevant to D + G. That judgement, in my opinion, is, however, simple and unfortunate. First, because D + G are very serious-perhaps not in the French sense (grave, without laughter, reasonable) because their work is also frivolous, gay, light (and perhaps even futile). But they are most certainly not joking. This is clear if only because of the wide impact they have had on contemporary thought and, most especially, on its students everywhere. In the U.S., where theory from France enters through language and literature departments, that impact has tended to be academically minimized with words like utopian, anarchistic, perverse. This is in part because Deleuze and Guattari take you further and further out of the text, not deeper into it. It is also because
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