plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?"
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"November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" is a chapter in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical work *A Thousand Plateaus* that develops their influential concept of the “body without organs” as a way of rethinking subjectivity, desire, and organization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" Context triple: [A Thousand Plateaus, hasPart, plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?"]
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"The I Without a Self" (essay)
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Marcel’s Unhappy Readymade (documentation and related works)
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
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The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin)
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This Mournable Body
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" Target entity description: "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" is a chapter in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical work *A Thousand Plateaus* that develops their influential concept of the “body without organs” as a way of rethinking subjectivity, desire, and organization.
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A.
"The I Without a Self" (essay)
"The I Without a Self" is an essay by W. H. Auden that explores questions of personal identity, authorship, and the nature of the poetic self.
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B.
Marcel’s Unhappy Readymade (documentation and related works)
Marcel’s Unhappy Readymade (documentation and related works) is a conceptual art project centered on the ephemeral, weather-altered transformation of a geometry textbook hung outdoors, preserved and explored through photographs, notes, and subsequent interpretive works.
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C.
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
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D.
The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin)
The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin) is a 1972 painting by R. B. Kitaj that visually reflects the themes of memory, exile, and modern urban life inspired by the writings of philosopher Walter Benjamin.
-
E.
This Mournable Body
This Mournable Body is a critically acclaimed novel by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga that follows a woman's psychological and social unraveling amid post-independence Harare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book chapter
ⓘ
philosophical text ⓘ plateau ⓘ |
| advocates |
careful construction of a body without organs
ⓘ
experimentation with desire ⓘ |
| author |
Félix Guattari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gilles Deleuze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralQuestion | "How do you make yourself a body without organs?" ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| critiques |
organismic models of the subject
ⓘ
psychoanalytic Oedipus complex ⓘ |
| discussesConcept |
anti-Oedipus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
assemblage ⓘ desiring-production ⓘ deterritorialization ⓘ intensive multiplicity ⓘ plane of consistency ⓘ reterritorialization ⓘ strata ⓘ |
| genre | philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPart | "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedConcept |
affect theory accounts of intensity
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posthumanist conceptions of embodiment ⓘ queer theory notions of the body ⓘ |
| influencedField |
art theory
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cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainConcept | body without organs ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
desire
ⓘ
organization ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| originalPublicationContext | originally published in French in "Mille plateaux" ⓘ |
| partOf | "A Thousand Plateaus" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
continental philosophy
ⓘ
poststructuralism ⓘ |
| positionInWork | one of the early plateaus in "A Thousand Plateaus" ⓘ |
| proposes |
experimental practice of subjectivity
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immanent model of desire ⓘ non-organic conception of the body ⓘ |
| relatedToWork | "Anti-Oedipus" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setsInContext | body without organs as field of intensities ⓘ |
| warnsAgainst | destructive or suicidal uses of the body without organs ⓘ |
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Subject: plateau "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" Description of subject: "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?" is a chapter in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical work *A Thousand Plateaus* that develops their influential concept of the “body without organs” as a way of rethinking subjectivity, desire, and organization.
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