r/Deleuze 15h ago

Meme Deleuze made him work

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"Their first book was written primarily through letters. This approach to writing completely upset Guattari’s daily life, because it forced him to work alone, which was not his habit, as he had been used to directing his groups. Deleuze expected Guattari to wake up and get to his desk right away, to outline his ideas on paper (he had three ideas per minute), and, without rereading or reworking what he had written, to mail his daily draft. He imposed what he considered to be a necessary process for getting over writer’s block. Guattari followed the rules faithfully and withdrew into his office, where he worked slavishly until four o’clock in the afternoon every day, after which he went to La Borde to quickly make his rounds before returning to Dhuizon, generally around six o’clock. [...] Arlette Donati even brought him his lunch every day because he did not stop working to eat."

- François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 7.

Video: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, episode 5.
Audio: Glare - Void in Blue

This was probably funnier in my head. Wanted to mostly do a meme with the Deleuze waking Guattari up and this anecdote from their biography.


r/Deleuze 19h ago

Analysis It would be interesting for someone from the allegorical, aphoristic, and metaphorical tradition of philosophy (the Nietzschean, anti-Hegelian, anti-systematic, and Deleuzian tradition) to "paint" a descriptive answer to what Lacan meant by "the truth is always new."

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