文档介绍：Pli 9 (2000), 239-47.
Schizoanalysis and Empiricism
Eugene W. Holland, Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus:
Introduction to Schizoanalysis (London: Routledge, 1999)
Patrick Hayden, Multiplicity and ing: The Pluralist Empiricism
of Gilles Deleuze, Studies in European Thought XV (New York:
Peter Lang, 1998)
JOHN APPLEBY
In a recent edition of the Guardian, Steven Poole posed the question
‘What do psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker and French thinker Gilles
Deleuze have mon’? He proceeded to answer ‘easy: they’re both
rubbish’.1 Whilst the Guardian could hardly be described as a
philosophically rigorous publication, this is fairly representative of how
large sections of Anglo-American academia regard Deleuze and his
sometime collaborator Félix Guattari. Unfortunately, this view is given
credence by the uses to which Deleuze and Guattari’s work is put by some
commentators, who either do little more than deploy samples of the more
colourful terminology with no clear understanding of what its role is within
the dense and difficult books which they have lifted such terminology
from; or, where an attempt is made to engage with the material, display a
poor or partial understanding of the works themselves. In fact, one could
go so far as to say that there is a large body of material which cannot be
seen as a serious attempt to engage with the subject matter.
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