Course Description: We will read and study D&G's Anti-Oedipus (AO) and A Thousand Plateaus (ATP) as attempts to rethink time (chronos, kairos, haeccity) space (topos) and agents (ethos, sub-jectivity, Master/Slave) as well as agency in non-Platonic, non-Aristotelian, but especially in non-Hegelian terms. What will be difficult, of course, are the new terms--the new parauniverse of discourse--that we will have to learn, study, and think with (e.g., such terms as "bodies without organs," "plane of immanence or immanance," "haeccity," "smooth space," etc.). Part of D&G's attempt is to rethink Thinking and, in rethinking Thinking, to reclaim the promises of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. The crucial issue is thinking that suffers from or is informed by ressentiment, by negativity, by a thinking that is reactionary, wanting to redeem the past by way of a revenge for actions committed in the past. In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche-Zarathustra says: " 'It was'--that is the name of the will's gnashing of teeth and most secret melancholy. Powerless against what has been done, he [the will] is an angry spectator of all that is past. The will cannot will backwards; and that he cannot break time and time's covetousness, that is the will's loneliest melancholy.    Willing liberates; what means does the will devise for himself to get rid of his melancholy and to mock his dungeon? Alas, every prisoner becomes a fool; and the imprisoned will redeems himself foolishly. That time does not run backwards, that is his wrath; 'that which was' is the name of the stone he cannot move. And so he moves stones out of wrath and displeasure, and he wreaks revenge on whatever does not feel wrath and displeasure as he does. Thus the will, the liberator, took to hurting; and on all who can suffer he wreaks revenge for his inability to go backwards. This, indeed this alone, is what revenge is" the will's ill will against time and its 'it was' " (TSZ "on redemption," 251-52 (The Portable Nietzsche)    In AO, Marx and Freud (M-F) are rethought! in nonNegative terms--i.e., in terms other than a model based on "lack"--which would be in a paramodel of exuberance ("excess"). So as to regain the exuberance that D&G believe M-F saw in living, becoming. As an example in terms of subjectivity (which is determined by the master/slave relationship and therefore is dyadic, or binary), let's take the question of the number of Sexes:    What we will notice, in part, is a rethinking of Hegel's view of value. Of all western value. Of economy. D&G, like Nietzsche, want to revalue values, economies. That is, they want to revalue an economy of values. Instead of a "sub-jectivity" that would express a value founded on negativity (a determinate negation--either One or Two sexes), they want a subjectivity or rather a BWO or a becoming-(animal, woman, etc.) without negativity (or an absolute negation that Hegel rejected--a radical multiplicity of sexes). They want, instead, not two sexes at war but a 1001 sexes in exuberance.    Again: What D&G want, therefore, are not One sex or Two sexes but a radical multiplicity of sexes!    They are searching for third subjectivities that would not be sub-jected in a binary.    But Why? you might ask! Again! Why is this nonNegative model and Why is revenge so important to turn away from, to neutralize, to self-overcome. The answer is found throughout Nietzsche's works and D&G's works. The answer: What goes for thinking-justice is determined by and is an alibi for thinking-acting.out-revenge.pain. (See Nietzsche who writes, "The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative" in On the Geneaology of Morals first essay, sec. 10.) This Hegelian struggle between master/slave must be overcome. For it leads only to endless wars and purification rites (them/us, congregation by segregation). The master is a fascist; the slave, as also determined by the Negative (either Hegel's or Kojeve's rendering of the slave), is an incipient fascist. An always-already-waiting-for-revenge slave cum MASTER! Michel Foucault puts all this better in terms of the question Why? when he writes in his Preface to AO: I would say that Anti-Oedipus ... is a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time.... How does one keep from being fascist, even (especially) when one believes oneself to be a revolutionary militant? How do we rid our speech adn or acts our hearts and our pleasures, of fascism? How do we ferret out the fascism that is imgrained in our behavior? The Christian moralist sought out the traces of the flesh lodeged deep within the soul. Deluze and Guattari, for their part, pursue the slightest traces of fascism in the body.    Paying a modest tribute to Saint Francis de Sales, one might say that Anti-Oedipus is an Introduction to the non-Fascist Life. (xiii)    As I stated--if it's been lost in this discussion--We will focus on not only ETHOS and PATHOS (sub-jectivity, agency, Master/Slave) and LOGOS (the principles of reason, rationality) but also on TIME (chronos, kairos, haeccity) and SPACE (topos, eutopos, atopos). The conceptual starting places for Rhetorical theories and practices.    Please note that we will read, along with AO and ATP, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. When reading this work, we will ask ourselves whether or not Oedipa Maas is outside the pull of Cacapitalism (the negative with an illusionary excess), whether or not she is a successful remaking of an anti-oedipal female Oedipus. And we will read a number of articles or chapters from noted French Feminists on the subject of subject/object relations and beyond. Syllabus: May 29th, Anti-Oedipus, preface. introduction. 1. The Desiring Machines, secs. 1-6: pp. 1-50. May 30th, AO, 2. Psychoanalysis and familialism: The Holy Family, secs. 1-5: pp. 51-105. May 31st, AO, 2. Psychoanalysis and familialism: The Holy Family, secs. 6-9: pp. 106-138. June 4th, AO, 3. Savages, Barbarians, Civilized Men, secs. 1-5: pp. 139-191. June 5th, AO, 3. Savages, Barbarians, Civilized Men, secs. 6-11: pp. 192-262. June 6th, AO, 4. Introduction to Schizoanalysis, secs. 1-3: pp. 273-321. June 7th, AO, 4. Introduction to Schizoanalysis, secs. 4-5: pp. 322-382. June 11th, AO, A look at commentaries. June 12th, A Thousand Plateaus, translator's foreword, author's note. 1. Introduction: Rhizome; 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves?; 3. 10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?): pp. ix-74. June 13th, ATP, 4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics; 5. 587 B.C.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs; : pp. 75-148. June 14th, ATP, 6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body; 7. Year Zero: Faciality; 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?"; 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity: pp. 149-231. June 18th, ATP, 10. 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible ...: pp. 232-309. June 19th, ATP, 11. 1837: Of the Refrain: pp. 310-350. June 20th, ATP, 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology:--The War Machine: pp. 351-423. June 21st, ATP, 13. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture: 424-473. June 25th, ATP, 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated; 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines: 474-516. June 26th, ... A Retrospective: repetition and difference ... difference and repetition June 27th, ... A Retrospective: repetition and difference ... difference and repetition June 28th, ... A Retrospective: repetition and difference ... difference and repetition. Last Day to Submit All Work. Assignments and Grades: You as seminar participants will post 5 carefully thought through and written papers (1500-2000 words) at the hypernews site for D&G, started by previous students in my D&G seminars. (For this seminar, posts begin with #72.) You will be expected to comment on, to add to, each other's papers at this site. Each paper will count for 1 grade; your posts to each other will count for 2 grades. Hence, you will have a total of 7 grades divided by 7 for your final grade. (I will use simple math on this: An "A" is 4, a "B" is 3, etc. In order to be considered for a passing grade, you must complete all of the assignments on time. Texts: Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. Univ of Minnesota Pr (paper); ISBN: 0816612250 _____. A Thousand Plateaus. Univ of Minnesota Pr (paper); ISBN: 0816614024 Eugene W. Holland, Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis. Routledge (paper); ISBN: 0415113199 Sophocles, Oedipus. (any translation. I will not order. Please reread prior to seminar. We will not spend any scheduled time on this work in seminar, but will be referrrrring to it intermittently.) Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49. HarperCollins (paper); ISBN: 0060931671 Recommended: Alain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Constantin Boundas and Dorothea Olkowski, Eds. Giles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy. N.O. Brown, Life Against Death. Philip Goodchild, Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire. Michael Hardt, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy. Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller, Eds. Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture. Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Keith Ansell Pearson, Ed. Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer. Some scattered places to visit, perhaps: D&G Links (Be sure to visit Allan Taylor's site, which was built for the previous, previous D&G seminar I taught in Fall '96. And of course be sure to visit the D&G Hypernews Site, where you will post your work.) John Protevi's D&G Seminar And then, into some xtra weird reterritory: A Thomas R. Pynchon Page: Spermatikos Logos. PSYART A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart1999/oedipus/armstr01.htm The Freud Museum (UK) http://www.freud.org.uk/ Psychoanalysis and Freud http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/freud.html Historical Oedipus (William Theaux??? or Author : Zenon Kelper - Editor : Robert Fritzius) http://www.akhnaton.com/8artic/8oed.htm Immanuel Velikovsky http://www.akhnaton.com/8artic/8vel.htm Immanuel Velikovsky's Oedipus and Akhnaton Commentary http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/vel/oedipus.htm Cf. C. G. Ransom's Age of Velikovsky.