Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze · French philosopher (1925–1995) · 1925–1995

Appears in 74 videos · 98 passages, 8 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches Deleuze mainly through Clouscard's Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir, which makes him the French figure of the ideology of desire1. He reads Anti-Oedipus as a text in which desire is no longer defined as lack but as plenitude and creation, which turns the consumer into a creator and the worker into a parasite2 3. He places him among the post-68 thinkers of the philosophical counter-revolution, who attack Marxism, psychoanalysis and the universal. He often comes back to his phrase "the infamous dialectic"4. He criticizes him for a neo-Spinozism closer to Bergson's élan vital than to Spinoza's mechanism5, and for an irrationalist Nietzsche who is not his own. He nonetheless grants him the stature of a great philosopher, on a different level from those who popularize him, though not in politics6. He also takes up the phrase about the danger of being caught in the dream of the other, as well as his reading of Dostoevsky in What Is the Creative Act?.

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Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects including ontology, social critique, film theory, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with long-term collaborator Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered to be his magnum opus. […]

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Series · 26 Sept 2014#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.

2:47The thought that claims descent from him occludes freedom in Spinoza.
48:42Anti-OedipusTargeted by Clouscard, a pillar of the counter-revolution that wants to be done with Marxism and psychoanalysis; a phrase about dreaming the other's dream is retained.
52:03His presentation of desire as creative makes the consumer a creator and the worker a parasite.

Season 9.1 · 13 Nov 2020#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia...

1:27:51What Is the Creative Act?He identifies in Dostoevsky characters who forget one urgency for another, more urgent and unknown one.
1:35:50A formula he takes up: nothing more dangerous than being prey to another's dream.

Season 7 · 5 May 2020#7 • Harnessed to confinitude

27:41He speaks of the "infamous dialectic" and brightens up as soon as Nietzsche is mentioned.
1:37:02Cited alongside Foucault and Derrida among the mentors of contemporary ideology.

Series · 23 Aug 2019D. Pagani / M. Clouscard's reply to C. Morilhat (1987)

1:11:04Sets aside "infamous dialectic," a point in common with Althusser.
1:39:04Neo-Spinozism.

Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 2/5

23:45Anti-OedipusRefuses to define desire as lack and makes it plenitude, affirmation, creation.
52:51Master-thinker taken as a metonymy for a whole field.

Series · 7 Jul 2012Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2

1:34Anti-OedipusTarget of Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir: promotional agency of the new economy.
42:09Desiring flows and the desiring machine evoke Facebook rather than Billancourt; he takes from Freud what develops the market.