Deleuzoguattarianism

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

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 Deteritorialization
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. Detteritorialization 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 retteritorialize. The process of deteritorialization and retritorialization is called lines of flight.

The Body Without Organs
The body without organs is the complete and total deteritorialization. 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 deteritorializing and rejecting territory, making oneself a being without allegiance and in the moment, always moving in the sense of flux.

Friends

 * [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Nietzscheanism -
 * [[File:Poststruct.png]] Post-Structuralism -
 * [[File:Postmodern.png]] Post-Modernism -

Frienemies

 * [[File:Ego.png]] Stirnerism -
 * [[File:Freud.png]] Freudianism -
 * [[FIle:Karl Marx icon.png]] Marxism -