Okay, so the current political and economic climate already pushed me towards mental illness and now I need philosophy to legitimize my schizo episodes. Who do I need to read before I start with Deleuze & Guattari and, later, Nick Land and other accelerationists? Books, essays, even interviews or movies.
From what I understand, Marx and Nietzsche would be good places to start, right?
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People should read more Nietzsche. Read Nietzsche.
Depends on how far you want to go with it and what you already know. Off the top of my head, a bit of Kant, Saussure, Freud and Lacan wouldn't hurt aside from what you mentioned. D&G kinda explain their literary references, albeit far too succintly (for example it saddens me that they don't go more in-depth about D.H. Lawrence's dirty little secret since it is a mindblowing and at the same time incredibly simple cultural critique), but they expect you to understand the philosophical ones. So without knowing about Saussurian semiology Signifier-Signified and Lacan's "famous" reversal or Kantian syntheses as constituting experience or the "non-Oedipal" (or pre-Oedipal) Freudian concepts (drive, pleasure and reality principle, eros and thanatos, etc.) you may not get much out of it. Knowing about Bergson's concept of time (the virtual past vs the old present, etc.) or Spinoza's ethical concepts also helps. Deleuze develops this stuff on his own, but with Guattari they just jump in directly and you may miss out on the details.
I really should make a copypasta for this stuff as I'm bored of posting the same advice again and again.
>I really should make a copypasta for this stuff as I'm bored of posting the same advice again and again.
I'm sure that many anons would appreciate that, friend. Thank you for the primer.
> Books, essays, even interviews or movies.
I hadn't noticed this part. I'll give you some links.
Here is the first draft of it, if I think of anything else I'll update it.
A decent short summary / intro to D&G:
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A lot of the stuff here:
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Some of the stuff here:
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Everything by Manuel DeLanda:
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A bit more on the Nietzsche-Deleuze relation through Klossowski (who dedicated his book about Nietzsche to Deleuze):
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More on the Deleuze-Nietzsche relation (the entire series is fascinating if you're into Nietzsche):
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The Deleuze for the Desperate series:
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Derrida's lecture about Deleuze (mistitled, it's about Stupidity not Forgiveness):
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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, 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. As for the books, start with Nietzsche and Philosophy (read the intro to the English translation by Michael Hardt even if you don't read the book in English). Deleuze's courses are also pretty accessible and translated in several languages: webdeleuze.com
A decent bibliography:
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>Okay, so the current political and economic climate already pushed me towards mental illness
But user, this view is completely anti-scientific. The prequisites for mental illness are laid at a very young age, when humans are not yet capable of processing anything political and/or economic.
Oops, I posted the same link twice. Basically the Virtual / Actual Journal Youtube channel. Just search it for what you find interesting, the presentations vary both in sound and textual quality.
I'm not mentally ill, it was a rather heavy-handed joke.
>and now I need philosophy to legitimize my schizo episodes
D&G aren't referring to actual schizos. A schizophrenic for D&G is a baby boomer (yuppie) artist. Real schizophrenics are deemed autistic by D&G and the enemy of their ontology.
Yeah, R.D Liang might be more your speed, OP.