Deleuze for the Desperate #11: refrain
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- An intro to 'one of our main concepts' (Deleuze1995) via Plateau 11 of A Thousand Plateaus and elsewhere. Refrains and ritornellos, territories, subjectivity, animal and human communication as 'machinic', the critical potential of music, some asides on creativity. Apologies for glitchy sound.
Screw Netflix, this is what I'm binge-watching! Fantastic series, please make much more.
Very encouraging, thanks
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This by far my favorite of your videos yet, and probably the best insight into overall philosophic ideas of Deleuze and Guattari. Great “aha” moment around 9:50 regarding how they see the world that made so many other things fall into place. For anyone wanting to follow this excellent series of yours I would suggest using this video as the starting point, then moving on to the earlier ones, say, on the Rhizome.
Many thanks for this Matthew Trump --very encouraging
Bring back DftD, there's hundreds of young deleuzians who are watching these and having their minds blown
Thanks for that Adam Gist
As a Henry Miller researcher from a literature background working with D&G and his mediators, i have benefitted immensely from your phenomenal work while writing my PhD dissertation! I came back to these videos time and again in the course of the last few years and must confess have understood D&G's rhizomatic work a little better each time. I thank you for your amazing contribution and hope you are doing well, sir. I often come back to your channel to see if you have published any recent videos... Just as the fanboy in me eagerly (and somewhat foolishly) anticipates Season Three of Twin Peaks! I really hope you do! But perhaps it's a fallacy to always have the end in view! D&G warn us against it.
Those are very kind and supportive comments Abhiijt Bhattacharjee.I am very glad to have been of some help. Best of luck with your own projects in the future.
Looking forward to more videos. :D
Thanks shadowbody. It took so long to reply to you ( sorry) that events have overtaken us
To add to the discussion about music, I thought that what Deleuze & Guattari were saying applies to electronic music perfectly, even though their own tastes were pretty conventional. The ritornello is basically any bit of sound from any source that can be used in a piece, in electronic music this can be sampled from an existing song or from recording nature, or from synthesizer presets generated by digital software, or customized sounds that the artist develops from scratch, or samples of existing materials that have been manipulated and distorted intentionally via software, etc. They can be arranged and contextualized in any way, sounds from one culture can be blended with a completely different culture, there's an assumed cosmopolitanism in this way of composing music. You're not limited to usual ideas of arrangement and tone, the point is to simplify arrangement and structure, in order to exemplify the variation and expression of tones or textures. A synthesizer sound can morph and change across time, manually controlled or automated to a pattern, allowing for changes in textures that are much more radical than is possible by conventional physical instruments. A paper on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of refrain applied to electronic music would be very interesting and fruitful to write.
Fascinating stuff, thelastataesthete. You are the person to write that paper!
your backgrounds give me the feel of theory,, thanks,,,>>>
Thanks for the support, beril evlimoğlu. Best of luck with your own projects.
second favorite chapter so far after plateau 3: geology of morals
Plateau 3 is the weirdest one in my view -- might try a video on geophilsosophy
So quiet it made me pay attention. Thanks?
Thanks for this, Straight A Student. As long as you didn't doze off!