The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animati

The Two-Fold public opinion of Deleuze and Guattari Intersections and Animations Charles J. Stivale, a scholar in French literary and heathen studies, tries to chat Deleuze and Guattaris philosophical concepts with practical studies on culture, analyzing films, cyberspace, and Cajun dance. Although he says that the goal of the book is to show an initial orientation to Deleuze and Guattaris collaborative whole caboodle, it is not a simple clientele at all for those innocent of Deleuzean concepts to follow the flow of his thought (ix). He provides short explications of the concepts and quotations from Deleuze and Guattaris books before his application, but only the readers, who are familiar with Delezean concepts, reckon to be able to articulate the whole idea. As the title implies, Stivale considers Deleuze and Guattaris works as expressing thought that arises from cardinal individual, fluctuating subjectivities(xi). He exploits to grasp and animate this two-foldedness, t wain sorting out two different voices of Deleuze and Guattari and presenting the intersection in the midst of them. This two-fold thought, as Stivale stresses, should be understood not only as an overlap of two particular sensibilities and modes of knowing but also as one of exertion and opening outward, of formulations, unheard-of juxtapositions of concepts, monstrous couplings, that is, rhizomatics of n-1 dimensions (24). In his introductory chapter, he differentiates Deleuze as a philosopher from Guattari as a psychotherapist and political activist first, he explicates Deleuzes passion of the concept, examining Deleuzes relation with Nietzsche and Foucault and several concepts including body without organ, image of thought, and rhizome second, h... ...o his attempt to bridge over the conceptual gap between the local and the international within cultural studies with Deleuze-Guattarian concepts. His point-of-view of cultural studies, especially, is valuable in terms that he re cognizes the danger within its becoming-discipline These geopolitical negotiations of forms and feelings in Cajun dance are precisely the proper center on of a cultural studies understood not in a limited, territorialized sense of dueling disciplines between adjoining theoretical and conceptual articulations and strategies (186-7). If one can keep his/her feature distance in reading this book, it will serve as a great source book for further research on cultural studies. Work CitedThe Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari Intersections and Animations. By Charles J. Stivale. New York The Guildford Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 361.