Abstract
Introduction: one or many concepts
Deleuze and Guattari defined philosophy as the invention of concepts and, as Deleuze commented in an interview, this is what he and Guattari tried to do in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus: 'especially in A Thousand Plateaus, which is a long book putting forward many concepts' (Deleuze, 1995a: 136). Several concepts are on display in Plateau Twelve, '1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine', although exactly how many and how these are related are far from clear. The title of the plateau suggests that it concerns two interrelated concepts, a concept of the nomad or the nomadic and a concept of the war machine. However, it is not obvious that these are in fact two distinct concepts rather than two faces of one and the same concept viewed from a different angle. At times in the course of the plateau the two terms appear to be used interchangeably, or combined in the phrase 'nomad war machine'.
Deleuze and Guattari defined philosophy as the invention of concepts and, as Deleuze commented in an interview, this is what he and Guattari tried to do in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus: 'especially in A Thousand Plateaus, which is a long book putting forward many concepts' (Deleuze, 1995a: 136). Several concepts are on display in Plateau Twelve, '1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine', although exactly how many and how these are related are far from clear. The title of the plateau suggests that it concerns two interrelated concepts, a concept of the nomad or the nomadic and a concept of the war machine. However, it is not obvious that these are in fact two distinct concepts rather than two faces of one and the same concept viewed from a different angle. At times in the course of the plateau the two terms appear to be used interchangeably, or combined in the phrase 'nomad war machine'.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy |
| Editors | Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell , James Williams |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 206-222 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780748697298, 9780748697274 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780748697281, 9780748697267 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- philosophy
- Gilles Deleuze
- Felix Guattari
- A Thousand Plateaus