DELEUZE AND GUATTARI LIST, U. OF VIRGINIA

A reference from the World Wide Web

PROGRAMME NOTE: This site has a sentimental value for THE PROGRAMME. It was our first major postmodern find on the WWW. The Spoon Collective at the University of Virginia operates the Deleuze-Guattari List. This is an electronic forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in both the separate and joint works of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. On Spoon's Home Page we find useful papers on such figures as Mikhail Bakhtin and his Dialogic method; Georges Bataille; Jean Baudrillard; Maurice Blanchot; Michel Foucault; Feyerabend; Habermas. Discussion lists, archives, and papers are available.

We found an especially pertinent article (38 screen pages) on Foucault. It is by Paul Patton, Department of General Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Australia. It puts his notion of power relations in the context of the development of humanistic concepts of the person. This has the effect of giving Foucault's ideas greater relevance to the problems of operating a viable society permeated by the postmodern temper. This Foucault article is merely a morsel of what is to be found at this link. Quotable Foucault: "A society without power relations can only be an abstraction." "Where there is power there is resistance."

As THE PROGRAMME explores here further, we will update this brief comment.

Deleuze and Guattari List, University of Virginia.

30 November 1995

Notes and quotes on Deleuze and Guattari, A THOUSAND PLATEAUS.

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