File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/96-10-10.144, message 57


Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:20:16 +1000 (EST)
From: Mr Christopher McMahon <Christopher.McMahon-AT-jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Chris' introduction


Thanks for the tip, Andrew. 

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Steve.Devos wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Try also ATP - Plat 12 and Plat 13
> 
> 
> andrew favell wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > Try "What is philosophy?" by D&G as there are recurring themes about the
> > State in that.
> > 
> > >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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
> 



   

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