FuckYeahGillesDeleuze

“Deleuze and Guattari: Feminine Simulacra, Semantic Machines”
Pino Blasone

To be or to become

“In all sorts of complex ways - through the history of the feminist movement and the history of homosexuality, through relationships in general -, this new type of sensibility is also the revolution. If revolutionary glasses do not allow us to see that, then there is no more revolution, it is all finished”: so, in 1979, Félix Guattari stated in an interview issued to a free broadcast station in Bologna, Radio Alice. In the writing Toward a New Nomadism (see bibliography below), for her part Rosi Braidotti argued: “The task of redefining female subjectivity requires as its preliminary method the working through the stock of culminated images, concepts, and representations of women and of female identity, such as they have been codified by the culture we are in”. Though in an oblique way and in a Deleuzian paradoxical sense - history of thinking must not merely consider what thinkers said but also what they did not, that being implicit in their thoughts -, among other things the attempt here is to compare and to reconcile these two distinct yet complementary opinions.
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By Pino Blasone. PDF, 14 pages.