scholarly journals Reassembling the Artwork

Tahiti ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Karlholm
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Art History ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
The 1950S

This article discusses how materialist philosopher Manuel Delanda’s “assemblage theory” could be of use for art studies. I begin by situating what I term art studies in relation to art history and comment on the differences. After a selective presentation of Delanda’s social ontology on assemblages, in turn following A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, I relate his theory to the concept of assemblage, its origin in the eighteenth century as well as its references as an art term from the 1950s. Theoretical assistance from Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour allows me to specify how the notion of assemblage could be used in connection with art studies focused neither on Art nor History but on artworks, as the first assemblage, followed by other assemblages, connecting with other works, agents and institutions, i.e. social phenomena literally assembled or com-posed. I present five types of assemblages of relevance to art studies as a different way of doing history, as something ongoing and openly unfolding (assisted and assembled by us), thus theoretically immune to being “history” in the sense of over. Keywords: art history, art studies, assemblage theory, artwork, Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Martin Heidegger, Bruno Latour

scholarly journals ASSEMBLAGE OF MEMORY: ON THE STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND CREATIVITY IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-294
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Niziołek
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Work Done

The article is aimed at presenting and discussing the theoretical concept of assemblage of memory inspired by and grounded in the creative work done in connection with social research within the framework of participatory theatre. Based on three projects of this kind that I have collaborated on over the last couple of years, all taking memory as their theme, The Method of National Constellations (2014–2016), Prayer: A Common Theatre (2016–2017), and Bieżenki (2018), the concept draws both on artistic, and sociological thinking. An assemblage of memory could be roughly described as a product of creativity, which is constructed using “found” materials, such as stories, images, emotions, behaviours, objects, people even, to compose a new meaningful entity. This is congruent with what became to be known as the assemblage theory, started by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who suggested that social phenomena, such as collective memory, one could add, should be viewed as dynamic and heterogeneous arrangements of a variety of elements, material and immaterial, natural and artificial, human and non-human, that are dependent on the connections between them rather than their intrinsic qualities. Thus, an assemblage of memory cannot be accessed through text-oriented methodologies that still seem to predominate the humanities (with its focus on the witness and testimony), but requires innovative, creative procedures, which, as exemplified by the above mentioned theatrical projects, are capable of revealing its structure and dynamics.

scholarly journals Corpos, pessoas e aprimoramento humano: porque estas distinções importam

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Scotford Archer
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour

Meu título é deliberadamente provocativo porque nem todos os Teóricos Sociais acham que isso importa. Algumas das abordagens teóricas atualmente em voga insistem veementemente que não. Estas são geralmente associadas aos nomes de Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari. Seus denominadores comuns são a rejeição do antropocentrismo, a substituição do 'agente' humano pelo 'actante', a recusa em distinguir o objeto do sujeito e uma rejeição de uma ontologia estratificada em favor de uma ontologia plana. Como tal, essa visão poderia ser resumida como um Manifesto pelo ‘Poder das Coisas’, significando a 'capacidade de coisas inanimadas para animar, agir, produzir efeitos' (Bennett, 2010: 6). A coisa que manifesta o poder - o actante - é algo que age ou a qual atividade é concedida por outros. Não implica uma motivação especial dos atores individuais humanos, nem dos humanos em geral” (Latour, 1996). Em vez disso, são ‘intervenientes’ ou ‘operadores’; para Deleuze e Guattari, termos estéreis deliberadamente distanciados da ‘humanidade’. Embora uma massa de literatura (ver, por exemplo, Braidotti, 2013; Hailes, 1999; Haraway, 1991; Wolfe, 2010) se seguiu (incluindo a tentativa de Bennett para reabilitar o Vitalismo), não direi mais nada sobre isso, porque os anti-humanistas deliberadamente anularam a importância dos problemas especificados no meu título.

Hybridising Knowledge: Some Considerations on the Epistemology of Contamination in the Works of Deleuze and Serres and Its Reception in Bio Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
Amanda Núñez García
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hybrid Processes ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Creative Production

In this article I investigate the necessarily interdisciplinary nature of our contemporaneity, from the perspective of works by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour and Michel Serres. While we often find that academia, society and governments push us towards interdisciplinarity, it is also true that those same institutions and powers (and therefore the epistemological systems on which they are based), distance us from that purpose. Opposing this aporetic situation we come up against the Deleuzian concept of ‘contamination’, or the well-known ‘science of Venus’ concept of Michel Serres. In doing so, we attempt ‘to put the tracing back on the map’, as Deleuze and Guattari suggest, and try to see the epistemological becomings that we find in contemporary culture. The main indicators which we use to study these contaminations and hybridisations are cinema and Bio Art. In both cases we observe that the real creative production is closer to ‘contamination’ than to the ‘purification’ and deletion of metabolic and hybrid processes criticised by Bruno Latour.

scholarly journals A EcoFilosofia no pensamento de Heidegger e de Deleuze/Guattari

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 8-32
Author(s):  
Jean Calmon Modenesi
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari

O presente artigo foi escrito a partir de nossa pesquisa de Pós-Doutorado, cujo título é EcoFilosofia: Heidegger e Deleuze/Guattari - diálogo virtual, concluída em 2020. Nesta pesquisa, tentamos demonstrar a hipótese segundo a qual a EcoFilosofia é um conceito que subjaz tanto o pensamento de Martin Heidegger quanto o de Gilles Deleuze e de Félix Guattari. Isto significa que o conceito de EcoFilosofia é o impensado do pensamento de tais pensadores. Aqui, o impensado não significa o não pensado, mas o pensado, que, no entanto, não foi devidamente enunciado pelos mesmos. Donde por que a justificava maior desta pesquisa, a saber, enunciar o conceito de EcoFilosofia tal como foi pensado, de um lado, pelo pensador alemão, e, de outro, pela dupla de pensadores franceses. Mas, justamente, ao enunciar o conceito de EcoFilosofia no pensamento tanto de Heidegger quanto da dupla Deleuze e Guattari, também contribuímos para a sua criação - uma criação conceitual coletiva.

scholarly journals Filosofias indígenas: fractalidade como ferramenta de conhecimentos tradicionais

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (48) ◽  
pp. 174-207
Author(s):  
Orivaldo Nunes Junior
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

O pensamento eurocentrado, com possui base dualista da balança e dois pesos, na lógica aristotélica e na Geometria Euclidiana e Cartesiana, foi fortemente criticado por intelectuais influenciados pelas Filosofias não-eurocentradas. Contudo, as influências de Filosofias Indígenas presentes no Pragmatismo e na Filosofia do Processo que influenciaram Felix Guattari e Gilles Deleuze, estes influenciados por Pierre Clastres que etnografou sociedades Indígenas contra o Estado centralizador tão caro à Europa. Tais críticas produziram Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold que trazem novas perspectivas à Antropologia e Sociologia, bem como Milton Santos que trouxe uma Geografia nova. Estes movimentos nos auxiliaram a delinear a proposta de Apensamento, como organizador da multiplicidade composta por seres com diversidade multiescalar e fractal, comum nas Filosofias Indígenas, que podemos utilizar como ferramenta na decolonização do pensar eurocentrado.

scholarly journals The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Torrance Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Abstract Machine ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Principal Task

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.'  This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

scholarly journals On Assemblages and Things: Fluidity, Stability, Causation Stories, and Formation Stories

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-424
Author(s):  
Timothy Rutzou ◽  
Dave Elder-Vass
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
High Frequency Trading ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
Trading Firm

This article conducts a dialogue and creates a new synthesis between two of the most influential ontological discourses in the field of sociology: assemblage theory and critical realism. The former proposes a focus on difference, fluidity, and process, the latter a focus on stability and structure. Drawing on and assessing the work of Deleuze, DeLanda, and Bhaskar, we argue that social ontology must overcome the tendency to bifurcate between these two poles and instead develop an ontology more suited to explaining complex social phenomena by accommodating elements of both traditions. Going beyond DeLanda’s recent work, we argue that a concept of causal types must be used alongside a typology of structures to give us an ontology that can sustain sociology’s need for both formation stories and causation stories. We illustrate the necessity and value of our proposed synthesis by discussing MacKenzie’s recent empirical analysis of a high-frequency trading firm.

scholarly journals The Mechanics of Order: An Inquiry into the Utopian Possibilities of the Free and Open Source Ecology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Torrance Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Abstract Machine ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Principal Task

<p>This is a study that concerns itself with two questions: how is order produced? and, is this order desirable? Contrary to many utopian methodologies that seek to elaborate 'what is not' but which 'ought to be', this is a study that seeks to contribute to a utopian mechanics by way of studying extant subterranean practices or ' minor traditions,' by studying elements of 'what is' that may also form something of what 'ought to be.'  This study takes as its principal task to understand the production of order within a small free and open source project known as Compiz. It borrows from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to formulate the related concepts of the machine and the abstract machine in order to account for the ongoing production of order. These two concepts, following the lead of Bruno Latour, adhere to a 'flat social' ontology and bring forth the world of objects and space as being indispensible, alongside the members of Compiz, in accounting for the project's ordering. The study poses three primary machines of order: the Passport, the Exodus and the Module. The Passport regulates access within the virtual spaces of Compiz and produces a role known as the 'gatekeeper,' one who may exercise a power both vicarious and precarious. The machine of the Exodus makes the threat of desertion a real and ongoing possibility and in this establishes an 'imaginary counter' within the group, undermining the power of the gatekeeper and recasting him as a steward of the code, as 'maintainer.' The third machine, known as the Module, is designed to minimise the complexity of the project by way of the spatialisation and organisation of the code, but subsequently effects a concomitant spatialisation and organisation of developers and projects, coming in the end to shape the large scale order amongst free and open source projects. The study concludes by suggesting a 'present tense' and 'open ended' conception of utopia, in which both the machines of the Exodus and the Module - but not the Passport- would find themselves well placed.</p>

scholarly journals Rumores diferenciales. Disonancias y resonancias en el pensar de Martin Heidegger y Gilles Deleuze-Félix Guattari

2015 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Luis Armando Hernández Cuevas
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari

Desplegando diversos conceptos filosóficos propios del pensamiento de Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze y Gilles Deleuze-Félix Guattari, el artículo tiene la intención de, por un lado, exponer el pensamiento de estos filósofos como un pensar eminentemente político que, asentado en un renovado interés por la ontología, sienta las bases para el desarrollo de una filosofía a-subjetiva, mientras que, por otro, precisa aquellos distanciamientos conceptuales que obligaron a Deleuze a afirmar, ante un cierto dejo de historicismo que vislumbra en Heidegger, que el filósofo alemán no afirmó el núcleo del pensamiento de la Diferencia. Esto al determinar el pensamiento nietzscheano como el acabamiento de la historia de la metafísica, así como al no vislumbrar en las razas bastardas y oprimidas ese modo del (im)poder que clama repetitivamente por su expresión.

scholarly journals EXERCÍCIOS DE PENSAMENTO PARA NÃO SERMOS INDIFERENTES AO QUE FAZEMOS EM NOME DA FILOSOFIA NA ESCOLA

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Teixeira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Fruto das discussões na disciplina Filosofia do Ensino de Filosofia no Mestrado Profissional em Filosofia (PROF-FILO - Núcleo da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte-UERN/Campus Caicó-CaC), o presente artigo utiliza a metáfora da viagem e das paisagens com objetivo de apresentar o percurso da disciplina em questão e de discutir o ensino de filosofia a partir de alguns elementos filosóficos. Nesse percurso parte-se de uma compreensão subjetiva do que seja a filosofia, para, em seguida, abordar alguns direcionamentos à pergunta “O que é a filosofia?” em Martin Heidegger, José Ortega y Gasset e Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. Após a análise dessas etapas descritas, o texto apresenta uma reflexão sobre o ensino da Filosofia no Ensino Médio na perspectiva de que não existe uma única postura ou filosófica ou pedagógica ou didática, mas uma orientação para o ensino-aprendizagem da filosofia depende inicialmente da perspectiva subjetiva adotada pelo filósofo-professor; das condições objetivas e estruturais, por exemplo, da Escola e do espaço-lugar que permitimos aos alunos para eles mesmos possam filosofar.

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