Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:48:39 +1000 (EST)
From: Christopher McMahon <Christopher.McMahon-AT-jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Chris' introduction


Hello.
My name is Chris McMahon. I'm a PhD student at jcu in Townsville, NQ,
Australia. Im working on Revenge and the State with special interest in
the positioning of gender(s): the subject used to be Women and Revenge.
The primary source texts are Elizabethan and
Jacobean Revenge dramas. I've read (and am very enthusiastic about) D&G
Antioedipus and ATP, as well as
Logic of Sense, and many of the chapters from Boundas' reader and "Gilles
Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy". Does anybody know of any Deleuzian
and/or Guattari texts which might be directly or indirectly relevant to my
thesis? As in any texts discussing English Renaissance drama specifically,
or any texts focussing on "the State", States, Urstaat(s) etc?

PS. In many ways, the Urstaat seems to be presented as a
transcendental Idea, or Form of all contingent States: something that
contingent soci might be in the process of "perfecting" or "reinventing".
I suspect that this is wrong..... Does anybody have an opinion on this? If
the Urstaat is something look a "homologous form" (qua Tractatus)
underlying all States (and marking them off as States)?

Any advice on this matter would be appreciated.

Chris