Gilles Deleuze

When researching a specific topic, a process is usually taken in order to get a complete understanding. Sometimes the route in achieving that understand can be nice and easy, or long and difficult. In researching the topic of sexuality, it requires a much more complex process of receiving an understanding. Michael Foucault is one of the many researchers to dive into research for an understanding of sexuality. Foucault got critical when he discovered different layers of sexuality, specifically of…

at some point two things connect, whether it be through association such as knowing someone who knows someone else or creation such as trees and wood which are connected to my desk and therefore connected to my laptop and me sitting at my desk. In Gilles Deluze and Félix Guattari’s chapter Introduction: Rhizome, along with in Judith Butlers chapter, Violence, Mourning, Politic, the authors mentions a society in which no one is an individual and where everyone is connected and functioning…

Foucault’s understanding of power not being possessed but rather as power being relational is due to the fact that Foucault believes that the oppression of power in its most drastic form relates to more productivity as well as causing individuals of society to emerge and act in different more efficient ways. Power is seen as a certain individual or group of individuals exercising their force over the powerless and forcing them to do things that they don’t want to do, which shows how power is, in…

A Shakespearean tragic hero is defined as a person of noble birth heroic qualities who possesses a tragic flaw in character that brings about his downfall. The character of Macbeth is one of a classic example of Shakespearean tragic hero. There are three main characteristics that titled Macbeth as a “Tragic Hero”. Firstly, Macbeth is a figure of high stature in form of nobility and wisdom. Secondly, Macbeth is essentially a good-hearted and noble man, but suffers in tremendous downfall due…

Marquise de Dampierre. Which her symptoms included shouting curse words. Nine patients was diagnosed with Maladie des tics in 1885 by Dr. George. Dr. George Gilles de la Tourette a french neurologist. He described the patient's condition as the following ; the patients twitched and jerked uncontrollably, grunting and crying. Dr. George Gilles de la Tourette's was shot by one of patients that had paranoid schizophrenia. 1972, (TSA) National Tourette Syndrome Association found to help scientific…

What exactly is Tourette Syndrome? It's a disorder that causes random spastic and normally strange movements, sounds, words, or even a combination of the three. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it's "Tourette Syndrome is a rare inherited neurological disorder characterized by recurrent motor and phonic tics (involuntary muscle spasms and vocalizations). It is three times more prevalent in males than in females. Although the cause of Tourette syndrome is unknown, evidence suggests that there…

repeated cycle of marrying women fated to die fulfills the ‘provocative’ characteristic of the masochistic relationship, or when “the masochist aggressively demands punishment since it resolves anxiety and allows him to enjoy the forbidden pleasure” (Deleuze, 75). The hazy state of the narrator’s opium-clouded mind lends itself to an air of ambiguity surrounding the scene preceding Rowena’s death. In the bridal chamber, the narrator witnesses a shadow moving across the room towards Rowena,…

Deleuze compares societies of control to disciplinary societies through juxtaposing a factory and the corporation. In a disciplinary society, the factory functions in the capitalistic sense with its objective of maximum production and lowest wages, while the corporation in a society of control promotes reward according to merit. He argues that societies of discipline have been donated to developing countries while societies of control who are richer administrate them. Deleuze points that…

(deconstructivism) - two buildings in relation to deleuzes theory through discussion and relate back to the theme/theory. The idea of concept structure - a structure that contains ideas and theories. Eisenmann’s work chosen to investigate his own idea about the matter of concept in the context of folding and making conceptual architecture.…

perspective, Friedrich Nietzsche’s understanding of Christian love could be compared as something too complex to be just labeled as sadism or masochism. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ, he begs to differ but also takes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of sadism and masochism from Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty under consideration. Analyzing Christian love through the filter of sexual perversion isn’t as unbelievable as one would think. Aspects of both sadism and…