/lit/ - Literature

A decent short summary / intro to D&G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHnrE3j9kg

A longer introduction, but possibly my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajsoQJ0V6A

A lot of the stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4CtHPqv6eKr8pYqe8qEoEA/videos?disable_polymer=1

Everything by Manuel DeLanda:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=manuel+delanda

A bit more on the Nietzsche-Deleuze relation through Klossowski (who dedicated his book about Nietzsche to Deleuze):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7l7ZAKZZZU

More on the Deleuze-Nietzsche relation (the entire series is fascinating if you're into Nietzsche):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFxnf92XqY


The Deleuze for the Desperate series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS35vUMhww4

Derrida's lecture about Deleuze (mistitled, it's about Stupidity not Forgiveness):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_r-gr3ccik

There's probably a lot more, there are Vimeo videos as well which don't feature on Youtube.

Pirate Deleuze's Abecedaire (it should have English subtitles) as I can't find it streamed in full online anywhere.

As for the books, you could start with the essay and interview collections (in no particular order): Dialogues, Negotiations, Desert Islands, Two Regimes of Madness, Essays Critical and Clinical. "Letter to a Harsh Critic" in Negotiations is short (about 7 pages) and tells you how to read his texts. Better yet, jump straight into Nietzsche and Philosophy (read the intro as well) since it sets up the entire framework that Deleuze will operate in. Deleuze's courses are also pretty accessible and translated in several languages: https://www.webdeleuze.com/


A decent bibliography:
https://immanentterrain.wordpress.com/biblio/

>>11698341
Nice to see someone get something out of the text for once. Most on here that try to summarize it sperg out completely and make very little sense. I'm sure D&G are for people understanding a text in their own way rather than trying to be orthodox, but it gets ridiculous most of the time, people don't even try to come close to the text (no matter how wacky the text may be).

>>11347554
I must admit I don't know anything about Yuk Hui other than his association with some deleuzians. I haven't studied Simondon either yet so everything I know about him comes from Deleuze.

The article you posted is interesting, I don't yet quite know what to make of it. Varoufakis proposed treating those who use social media as a kind of cognitive workers which must be in some way compensated for their work (even if not directly), but I'm not sure how far I'd go with it. It's just too tempting to just think of it as simply a service and to say that the consequences that arise from it are almost epiphenomenal, that nobody in fact controls this general intellect. It's probably naive though.

>>11347791
I did see deleuzians on occasion use cartoons to describe delirium and the movements of desire in general. Not just because, as Zizek points out, there is a kind of death drive logic to it where the characters instantly come back even after injuries that would normally cause death, but also because there is a certain fluidity there in the way a character can become one thing and then something completely different, like when Tom & Jerry are in one episode their regular selves and in the next they're Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham and the next they're astronauts on a moon made of cheese. There is also a movement of irony or humor in Deleuze's sense in cartoons to the point of it being metaphysical (you see a cartoon character run in mid air instead of instantly falling, you know it is impossible in our world, but the possibility of such an alternate world existing in some way cannot be excluded).

Pic related.
> You think you have made yourself a good BwO, that you chose the right Place, Power (Puissance), and Collectivity (there is always a collectivity, even when you are alone)