A Thousand Plateaus of Cannibal Metaphysics (Reprise)

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Date/Time
Date(s) - Saturday, 10/24/2015
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location
Klinger Studios

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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari wrote the companion text to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus in 1980. Volume Two of Capitalism and Schizophrenia has impacted various disciplines in both the human social sciences and the arts. Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s long awaited english translation of Metaphysiques Cannibales pushes the creative plateaus beyond the 15 given by Deleuze and Guattari. De Castro incorporates his ethnographic field research into a text that blurs the lines between anthropology and philosophy and pushes the limits of both. “The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician…offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own—he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such “other” metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences.”

(We will be looking at art by Marc Ngui as a supplement to the first few chapters of the A Thousand Plateaus.)

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PAST READINGS:

First Discussion is Saturday 1/31/15 @ 1pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Intro & DRAWINGS)
Second Discussion Saturday 2/7/15 @ 2pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Intro – Second Plateau: 1914 & DRAWINGS)
Third Discussion Saturday 2/14/15 @ 2pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Continue with Second Plateau: 1914 & DRAWINGS)
Fourth Discussion Saturday 3/7/15 @ 2pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Third Plateau: 10,000BC & DRAWINGS)
Fifth Discussion Sunday 3/15/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Fourth Plateau: Nov. 20th 1923: Postulates of Linguistics)
Sixth Discussion Sunday 3/22/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Third Plateau: 10,000BC)
Seventh Discussion Sunday 3/29/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Eleventh Plateau: 1837: Of the Refrain)
Eight Discussion Sunday 5/10/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Fifth Plateau: 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs)
Ninth Discussion Sunday 5/17/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Thirteenth Plateau: 7000 BC: Apparatus of Capture)
Tenth Discussion Sunday 5/24/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Seventh & Sixth Plateaus: Faciality & How to Make Yourself a Body Without Organs)
Eleventh Discussion Sunday 5/31/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Eighth Plateau: 1874: Three Novellas )
Twelfth Discussion Sunday 6/7/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Tenth Plateau: 1730: Becoming)
Thirteenth Discussion Sunday 6/14/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Ninth Plateau: 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity)
Fourteenth Discussion Sunday 6/21/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Twelfth Plateau: 1227: Nomadology)
Fifteenth Discussion Sunday 6/28/15 @ 12pm 140 Atkinson St. Detroit
(Fourteenth Plateau: 1440: Smooth and Striated)
Final Discussion TBD
(Conclusion)

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