[G_O] reading deleuze (forgetting felix?)

aizura@onlinecide.org aizura@onlinecide.org
Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:46:05 +1100


Hi all,

I should introduce myself -- it's my first post. My name is Az and I'm in 
Melbourne. 

Anyhow, I've been lurking for months through various conversations, and am 
finally spurred to post by the suggestion of reading D/G -- a great idea, I 
reckon. Something I'd like to read/contribute to, if I can. 

I'm interested in the BwO stuf in 'A Thousand Plateaus' and also 
the 'Postscript on the Societies of Control' from October journal -- it's quite 
a clean, self-contained essay, might be a good starting-point. Also, it's 
online somewhere (forgive, I can't find it just now). I haven't read Difference 
and Repetition but am about to check it out of the library. 

On the other hand, if we have a choice btw beginnig with AO and begining with 
TP, I would say start with Anti-Oedipus. AO grounds itself in some kind of 
engagement with capital/desire in a way that TP doesn't, necessarily, perhaps 
because you can start and finish anywhere in TP and so can avoid engaging with 
the whole text? (Speaking for myself.) 

Great list, by the way. 

Az