CTS - Lecture - Deleuze and Guattari and creativity

Deleuze and Guattari and creativity


Aim
To examine how Deleuze and Guattari draw emphasis to the constructed and contingent nature of social reality.


Objectives:
(1) To contrast their model of creative, "rhizomatic" thought with traditional "tree like" models of thought bases in sequential argumentation;
(2) To examine Deleuze and Fuattari's interpretations of processes of social change and development.
(3) To consider how they propose individual people might transform themselves;
(4) To contextualise these theories of change and development in relation to the concepts "the virtual" and "The actual".


'A thousand plateaus' 
Tried to re-think social change, didn't want to get to the point of overthrowing government; that change could be ongoing. 


Revolt against traditional modes of thought - to be thought of a tree like structure, to be set within the trunk, the branches representing chains of thought, the argumentation, branches link to one another.
'Risomatic thoughts' - Riso a wall plant. 


Plato - meaning a particular set of circumstances brought together in an intensive relationship.
A plant form - underground stair that grows horizontally - horizontal shoots e.g mint and ginger. 
Alternative mode of thought - against tree like structure 
Linked through leaps of association,  seeminglesly connected ideas
Principle of interrelationship 


IMAGE - Concept (signified) > Sound-Image (signifier)


Signified - mental concept, arbitrary construct, produced through na agreement of users by a given language system. Concept - Caught up in a system of language.


Concept we use in thought and speech gain their meaning in a repeated pattern of the way its signified and usage.


The Riso builds relationship between objects places people and ideas, generated commonalities. Risos are creative, produced intentionally or unintentionally. 


Isa Genzken, hospital (ground zero) 2008
Objects images and poured paint collide creating formation - future architectural construction - sense of things being held together in provisional ways. Can be taken apart and reformed in another way. Made of materials we can find in the street, shop etc. Brought together in this configuration, suggest possibility of architectural construction. Alternate possibility. Take on form of assemblage - proccesses of arrnaging, organising. 


Assemblage 


Hooide - We judge people, as do Police. Signifies and denotes a person wearing sportwear. WHat comes with it is a history of assumptions, laws, judgements. 
If these 'hoodies' were to conjugate in a trolley park, that trolley park function has been transformed, become a place of social interaction - judgements of assemblages, now separated from supermarket, people keep their distance etc. Re-teritorilisation.


State of militay slow, static to chance
Representations of Teenagers in society shift and change all the time


Ideology shapes how we see and view the world, and ourselves.