Drawing a Thousand Plateaus

Illustration for A Thousand Plateaus, 1730, paragraph 15 Panel 1 How can we conceive of a peopling, a propagation, a becoming that is without filiation or hereditary production? A multiplicity without the unity of an ancestor? It is quite simple; everybody knows it, but it is discussed only in secret. We oppose epidemic to filiation, contagion to heredity, peopling by contagion to sexual reproduction, sexual production. Bands, human or animal, proliferate by contagion, epidemics, battlefields, and catastrophes. Panel 2 The difference is that contagion, epidemic, involves terms that are entirely heterogeneous: for example, a human being, an animal, and a bacterium, a virus, a molecule, a microorganism. Or in the case of the truffle, a tree, a fly, and a pig. These combinations are neither genetic nor structural; they are interkingdoms, unnatural participations. That is the only way Nature operates—against itself. Panel 3 This is a far cry from filiative production or hereditary reproduction, in which the only differences retained are a simple duality between sexes within the same species, and small modifications across generations. For us, on the other hand, there are as many sexes as there are terms in symbiosis, as many differences as elements contributing to a process of contagion. We know that many beings pass between a man and a woman; they come from different worlds, are borne on the wind, form rhizomes around roots; they cannot be understood in terms of production, only in terms of becoming. The Universe does not function by filiation.

Drawing a Thousand Plateaus, 1730, paragraph 15

"How can we conceive of a peopling, a propagation, a becoming that is without filiation or hereditary production? A multiplicity without the unity of an ancestor? It is quite simple; everybody knows it, but it is discussed only in secret...."

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"It does seem as though there is a contradiction: between the pack and the loner; ... between the aleatory aggregate and a predestined choice."

From Paragraph 11, 10,000BC: The Geology of Morals

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Illustration using just the black and red and blue lines showing an abstract concept of convergent properties and hierarchies, veins and nodes "Even the book as a natural reality is a taproot, with its pivotal spine and surrounding leaves. But the book as a spiritual reality, the Tree or Root as an image, endlessly develops the law of the One that becomes two, then of the two that become four." From A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, from the Introduction, paraphraphs 3-4

"Even the book as a natural reality is a taproot, with its pivotal spine and surrounding leaves. But the book as a spiritual reality, the Tree or Root as an image, endlessly develops the law of the One that becomes two, then of the two that become four."

From Introduction, paraphraphs 3-4

The nightmare of Western style individualism must end.

"Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd."

From the Introduction, paragraph 1

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Well, your fanfiction is appreciated, but you do need to remember that the handmaid's tale doesn't include any fiction at all. The author simply collected things that were happening to women and Societies in the 1980s when she wrote the book or throughout history. That's what it is so powerful

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"The abstract machine begins to unfold, to stand to full height, producing an illusion exceeding all strata, even though the machine itself still belongs to a determinate stratum. This is, obviously, the illusion constitutive of man (who does man think he is?). This illusion derives from the overcoding immanent to language itself. But what is not illusory are the new distributions between content and expression: technological content characterized by the hand-tool relation and, at a deeper level, tied to a social Machine and formations of power; symbolic expression characterized by face-language relations and, at a deeper level, tied to a semiotic Machine and regimes of signs."

"The abstract machine begins to unfold, to stand to full height, producing an illusion exceeding all strata, even though the machine itself still belongs to a determinate stratum..."

From "10 000 BC, The Geology of Morals: Who Does the Earth Think It Is?", paragraph 36.

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"What we are trying to say is that there is indeed one exterior milieu for the entire stratum, permeating the entire stratum: the cerebral-nervous milieu. It comes from the organic substratum, but of course that substratum does not merely play the role of a substratum or passive support. It is no less complex in organization. Rather, it constitutes the prehuman soup immersing us. Our hands and faces are immersed in it. The brain is a population, a set of tribes tending toward two poles. In Leroi-Gourhan's analyses of the constitution of these two poles in the soup—one of which depends on the actions of the face, the other on the hand—their correlation or relativity does not preclude a real distinction between them; quite the contrary, it entails one, as the reciprocal presupposition of two articulations, the manual articulation of content and the facial articulation of expression."

"What we are trying to say is that there is indeed one exterior milieu for the entire stratum, permeating the entire stratum: the cerebral-nervous milieu..."

From "10 000 BC, The Geology of Morals: Who Does the Earth Think It Is?", paragraph 37 drawing a.

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Paragraph 2 of chapter 13 of "A Thousand Plateaus" by Gilles Deleuze and Felicix Guattari

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I handle illustration seemingly showing on audience sitting in front of a film but the film is represented like a cartoon, four rows of five images each

"I recall the fine film Willard (1972, Daniel Mann). A "B" movie perhaps, but a fine unpopular film: unpopular because the heroes are rats... "

Paragraph 1 of chapter 13 of "A Thousand Plateaus"

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Paraphraph 29 "1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperciptible" Illustrations for chapter 13 of "A Thousand Plateaus"

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"1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperciptible" Illustrations for chapter 13 of "A Thousand Plateaus"

Paragraph 26

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Get more from Marc Ngui on Patreon creating diagrams & drawings for A Thousand Plateaus

These drawings are a methodical interpretation of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia written by modern French philosophers Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari.

The drawings are created by Canadian artist Marc Ngui

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"A very good schizo dream. To be fully a part of the crowd and at the same time completely outside it, removed from it: to be on the edge, to take a walk like Virginia Woolf (never again will I say, "I am this, I am that")."

From Chapter 1: "1914: One or Several Wolves", paragraph 5

Multiplicities

From Chapter 1: "1914: One or Several Wolves", paragraph 13, A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

By Marc Ngui

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What Does It Mean to Love Somebody?

"A method of the rhizome type, on the contrary, can analyze language only by decentering it onto other dimensions and other registers."

A favorite drawing from Chapter 2 from the book A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

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