Schizoanalysis.
This confuses me, I've always preferred simplification on the grounds of learning. Guattari seems to move towards complexity. I suppose this is a way to explore a concept with more freedom.
Further reading prduces this insight "a praxis of purposeful deterritorialization that doesn’t fall into the usual trap of reterritorialization" My God that's pretentious! Does anyone actually understand what that means? in fact many of the articles available off a web search are similar. The material is unforgivably dense. However this article seems to suggest that there is some secondary writing that better explains the concept (notably by avoiding Deleuve and Guattari's own terminology)http://www.warwick.ac.uk/philosophy/pli_journal/pdfs/appleby_pli_9.pdf.
My main concern is how I could apply the approach.
If I understand the psychoanalytic approaches to subject matter, like a film, it seems almost harsh and accusing. What are the characters motivations? What is the writer/director revealing about themselves? What's the hidden meaning? This seems to be looking for an underlying flaw(which I suppose is what psychoanalysis was originally intended for)
The other approach of looking at the parts as relating to the greater whole seems gentler. it encourages tangnetial exploration rather than a mad rush towards a root theme/concept.For example, yes, the game Bioshock deals with free will, but it also deals with the issues of family, identity, ethics, perception of public figures etc.
With an endless interlocking system of unit operations, would schizoanalysis produce a true concrete analysis, or simply a highly subjective view?
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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