A Thousand Plateaus

A Thousand Plateaus
The 1993 University of Minnesota Press edition
Author(s)	Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Original title	Mille plateaux
Translator	Brian Massumi
Country	France
Language	French
Genre(s)	Philosophy
Publisher	Minuit (Original French); Continuum (English Translation)
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)

A Thousand Plateaus (French: Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It is the second book of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the first being Anti-Oedipus. It was translated into English by Brian Massumi, who observes that Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, "differ so markedly in tone, content, and composition that they seem like a prime illustration of their subtitle's second noun." A Thousand Plateaus, written over a seven-year period, is "less a critique than a sustained, constructive experiment in schizophrenic, or 'nomad', thought."^[1] Before the full translation appeared in 1988, the twelfth "plateau" was published separately as Nomadology: The War Machine (New York: Semiotext(e), 1986).

A Thousand Plateaus served as a 'model' for Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire. Negri, who has also collaborated with Guattari, once called it "the most important philosophical text of the 20th Century."^[2] Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont believe that, like several of Deleuze's other works, A Thousand Plateaus contains many passages that use pseudo-scientific language.^[3]

See also

• Fleet in being (quoting Paul Virilio; the "fleet in being" is a "vector of deterritorialization")
• Plane of immanence
• Desiring-production

References

Sources

• Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. Anti-Œdipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 1 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of L'Anti-Oedipe. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8264-7695-3.
• ---. 1980. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 2 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of Mille Plateaux. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8264-7694-5.
• Guattari, Félix. 1984. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics. Trans. Rosemary Sheed. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-055160-3.
• Guattari, Félix and Toni Negri. 1985. Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance. Trans. Michael Ryan. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e), 1990. Trans. of Nouvelles espaces de liberte. Paris: Bedon. ISBN 0-936756-21-7.
• Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP. ISBN 0-674-00671-2.
• Massumi, Brian. 1992. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari. Swerve editions. Cambridge, USA and London: MIT. ISBN 0-262-63143-1.

External links

• April 10, 2006 article by John Philipps, with an explanation of the incomplete translation of "agencement" by "assemblage" ("One of the earliest attempts to translate Deleuze and Guattari’s use of the term agencement appears in the first published translation, by Paul Foss and Paul Patton in 1981, of the article “Rhizome.” The English term they use, assemblage, is retained in Brian Massumi’s later English version, when “Rhizome” appears as the Introduction to A Thousand Plateaus.")
• "Drawings from A Thousand Plateaus" presents a paragraph by paragraph diagrammatic interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus, by artist Marc Ngui.

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