Deleuzoguattarianism

Deleuzoguattarianism is a post-structuralist philosophy created by  Gilles Deleuze and  Félix Guattari. It attacks the vast majority of traditional philosophy and instead proposes very unconventional ways of viewing things, such as desiring machines.

It is important to note that while this philosophy is based on their collaboration on works such as Capitalism And Schizophrenia, their own personal philosophies will also be considered.

History
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, one a philosopher and the other a psychoanalyst and political activist, wrote several books together, such as Capitalism And Schizophrenia, What Is Philosophy, and Kafka: Towards A Minor Literature.

Each of them had their own independent careers, each advancing their shared theory of schizoanalysis and also their other philosophical beliefs. Deleuze, besides schizoanalysis, also did work in a theory of difference, Spinozian metaphysics, and anti-humanism. Deleuze's personal works include: Difference And Repetition, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, Foucault, etc. Guattari, besides schizoanalysis, also did work in post-Marxian political theory, ecology, and semiotics. Guattari's personal works include: Chaosophy, Chaosmosis, Molecular Revolution, etc.

Guattari said that their collaboration was caused in part by the May 68' events in France, with the intellectual energy it produced empowering him and other radical philosophers.

Beliefs
Deleuze and Guattari have perhaps the most complicated and ideosyncretic work since Hegel, so be aware that this will be all very simplified.



Desiring Production
The most important idea of Deleuze and Guattari is their idea of the machine. The machine does not belong to any ontological mode of the subject and object, but is rather an object stratified out of the simple flow of being. These machines are defined by their potential for actualization. Actualization is the process of "production" in these machines, it is the result of the machine. For example, one could analyze the organ of the heart as a machine that produces blood, or an activist group that produces political change. These machines are based on whatever actualization they produce, if a machine produces a different actualization, it is no longer that machine. Deleuze and Guattari thus see machines as stratifications of flow, a concept very dear to Deleuze and Guattari. These machines are used to model the processes of the unconscious, capital, etc.

Territorialization And Deterritorialization
The machine, as was previously mentioned, is a stratification of flow. Deleuze and Guattari have a word for this stratification i.e. territorialization. In the desiring machine, the machine blocks and stratifies the flow of desire, with the actualization being produced by the stratification of this desire into one narrow pathway. This is territorialization, to place these flows into a narrow territory. Deleuze and Guattari commonly use territorialization not just to explain the process of machines, but also that of concepts. Just as Hegel thinks that all concepts are dialectical, Deleuze and Guattari find all concepts to be machinic. Territorialization can be summarized as the association of some object into the context of some territory. Just as something can be placed into a new context, i.e. to territorialize, it can be removed from it just as easily. Detterritorialization is the process of unstratification, to lose labels and contexts. Deleuze and Guattari see that, besides the special case of the body without organs, there is a tendency to reterritorialize. The process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization is called lines of flight.

The Body Without Organs
The body without organs is the complete and total deterritorialization. It is a body without any territorial commitments, any machinic modes of desire, but rather an object of unstriated being. Deleuze and Guattari give this object two roles, as the basis of desire and as a goal to be reached. Rejecting Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari argue that there is no Freudian oedipus complex, or Lacan's triangle, but that desire at its root is schitzoid, as in free. Desire is free in the sense that it is not defined by any set of rules or by lack, but is an act of free creation. Deleuze and Guattari use someone with schizophrenia to exemplify this, saying that the schizoid transcends territories while constructing their worldviews and desires. Without all of the territorialization we do, we are just like this. The body without organs is also something to be reached. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari talk in length about how one can achieve the creative nothing. One does this by deterritorializing and rejecting territory, making oneself a being without allegiance and in the moment, always moving in the sense of flux.

Rhizomes And The War Machine
In their book, A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari introduce the rhizome and the tree, two modes of concept. The tree is the traditional concept, with structuring being hierarchical and unified, while the rhizome is always in the middle, being a horizontal structure. The rhizome is how Deleuze and Guattari view things, always in the middle of something larger. The rhizome is associated with rhizomatic thinking, wich is the basis for the war machine. Rhizomatic thinking is to think in a rhizomatic manner, to think not in higherarchical structurings, but to think spiratically, in a schitzo manner. By doing this, we can escape structuralisms in thought and instead always be in the process. The war machine is a contradictory force against a concept, wich is only defined by an attack, or "war", on this concept. Deleuze and Guattari analyze how this constitutes the modern state as coopting the war machine, in the fact that the war machine is nomadic yet it is coopted into the structuralism of the state. Nomadic is essentially synonymous with rhizomatic, as the nomad is always moving. Deleuze and Guattari call for us to make our thoughts war machines, to reevaluate all things and to construct our own.

Friends

 * [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Nietzscheanism - Nietzsche is one of my greatest influences. The will to power can be interpreted as desiring production, and your thinking is anti-dialectical!
 * [[File:Spinoza.png]] Spinozaism - The first anti-humanist. You were the best of the minor philosophers except perhaps Nietzsche.
 * [[File:Poststruct.png]] Post-Structuralism - While I may have my discord with the deconstruction types, I am still a part of you. Why can you be anti-metaphysics though? Creating concepts is how we innovate and improve.
 * [[File:Postmodern.png]] Post-Modernism - I am largely considered a post-modern philosopher.
 * [[File:Anti-Humanism.png]] - The notion of conflating individuals to this abstract construction of the human is simply ridiculous.
 * [[File:Pragmat.png]] Pragmatism - We have often called schizoanalysis pragmatics.
 * [[File:Accel.png]] - My child, but you can be a bit out there sometimes.
 * [[File:Continental.png]] Continental Philosophy - I am a continental philosopher.
 * [[File:Post-an.png]] - You are extremely based and carry my ideas well, but what is this Lacan bs.
 * [[File:DarkDeleuze.png]] Dark Deleuzoguattarianism - A good elaboration on my politics, but political desire is not naturally communistic.

Frienemies

 * [[File:Ego.png]] - You simply add nihilism to the dialectic, instead of removing the dialectic entirely. I like your critique of humanism though.
 * [[File:Freud.png]] Freudianism - One of my greatest influences, but we must move beyond you.
 * [[FIle:Karl Marx icon.png]] - Your critique of capitalism is too basic and you use the dialectic.
 * [[File:HegelianPhilosophy.png]] Hegelianism - You're a philosopher of flux and difference, but it is relative difference rather than absolute difference.
 * [[File:Sartre.png]] Sartrean Existentialism - I don't like how you operate purely from the subject, but Guattari seemed to like you.
 * [[File:Absurdism.png]] Absurdism - I don't like Camus, but the themes of Kafka's literature are paramount to go towards minor literature.
 * [[File:Struct.png]] Structuralism - Your semiotics are so basic! But, you are the climate that lead to me so I can't be too critical.
 * [[File:Žižekism.png]] Žižekianism - Lacanian and Hegelian, but you've been both critical and supportive of me in the past.

Enemies

 * [[File:Kant.png]] Kantianism - The figurehead of major philosophy.
 * [[File:Descarte.png]] Cartesianism - Another major philosopher. You created the cesspool of subject object dichotemy.
 * [[File:Modern.png]] Modernism - Modern society is disciplinary.
 * [[File:Humanism.png]] - Creates an artificial division between the human and the rest of the world.

[[File:Wikipedia.png]] Wikipedia

 * [[File:Wikipedia.png]] Gilles Deleuze [[File:Deleuze.png]]
 * [[File:Wikipedia.png]] Félix Guattari [[File:Guattari.png]]