Conceptual Resonances and Figures from the Orient in A Thousand Plateaus: from the Tao and Go to the Body without Organs and the War Machine [Spanish]

Authors

  • Matías Soich Universidad de Buenos Aires. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

Keywords:

Deleuze, Guattari, Orient, Tao, body without organs, war machine, immanence

Abstract

The starting point for this work is a general aim: to explore the conceptual resonances between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and oriental thought. This paper develops two series of figures from the Orient that appear in A Thousand Plateaus and brings out their connection with various deleuzian-guattarian themes. The first series comprises several games and martial arts used by the authors as examples of the concepts “smooth space” and “war machine”; the second comprises Taoist sexual practices as one case, among others, of the circulation of desire in a body without organs. The emphasis is laid on clarifying the role these figures from the Orient play in A Thousand Plateaus, as well as on exposing some sources the authors usually leave in the dark. Finally, I hint the background (point of resonance) against which oriental thought and Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy weave their “disturbing affinities”.

 

Author Biography

  • Matías Soich, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
    Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Doctorando por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (área: Lingüística). Becario doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

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Published

2014-12-14

Issue

No. 22: January-June 2015

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