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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: What Is an Image of Thought?
  7. 1. Image of Thought in Proust, or The First Literary Machine (ca. 1964)
  8. 2. Notes From a Thought Experiment: What Is a Rhizome? (ca. 1976)
  9. 3. The Image of Thought on Kafka, or The Second Literary Machine (ca. 1975)
  10. 4. A Minor Question of Literature, or The Bachelor Machine (ca. 1975)
  11. 5. A Question of Style in the Philosophy of Difference: “The Bartleby Formula” (Ca. 1989)
  12. 6. The Image of Thought in Modern Cinema: The Brain Machine (ca. 1985)
  13. Conclusion: “We Will Speak of the Brain . . .”
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. Author Biography

Index

  • abstract, 59, 64; conceptual and, 4
  • abstractions, ideas and, 181
  • a-centered model, 167, 172–73
  • action-image, 163, 164, 165, 166, 204
  • actual, 194; cerebral activity and, 182; virtual and, 173, 206, 207, 208
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 196, 197
  • agencement, 87, 88, 96, 99, 111
  • À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 31, 34, 35, 40, 81, 84, 87
  • algorithm, law of, 168
  • Alliez, Eric, 205
  • alterity, 100; anthropological expression of, 11
  • Althusser, Louis, ideology and, 135
  • Amerika (Kafka), 69, 102
  • amnesia, 8, 88, 212n12
  • animal-logos, 46, 78, 84, 87, 104
  • anthropology, true, 123
  • anthropomorphism, 37, 153
  • anti-interpretation, 63, 64, 66, 82
  • anti-Kafka, creating, 106
  • anti-method, 60, 63, 99
  • Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari), 21, 31, 32, 43, 45, 49, 50, 56, 80–81, 83, 85, 122, 126, 184; schizophrenia and, 125; writing machine of, 143
  • anti-philosophy, 15, 24, 31
  • aphasia, 8, 212n12
  • aporia, 197, 224n79
  • Arcades Project, The (Benjamin), 228n60
  • Aristotle, philosophy and, 53
  • art, 5, 202; bourgeois, 163; communication by, 145–46; conceptual, 8; goals of, 157; heteronomy of, 6; as machine, 25; mental objects of, 190–91; philosophy of, 177; postmodernist interpretation of, 187
  • Artaud, Antonin, 8, 29, 30, 50, 121, 137, 160, 212n12; critical/clinical exegesis and, 120; Deleuze and, 161; Derrida and, 125–26, 128; image of thought and, 161; influence of, 13; life/law and, 118; metaphysics and, 126; minor writers and, 75; not thinking and, 162; protests and, 120; schizophrenia and, 122–23, 124; style and, 119; on thought/metaphysics, 128; writing and, 118–19
  • assemblage, 99, 175; collective, 199–200; social, 55, 103, 108, 199, 221n1
  • associations, 170, 175; chain of, 146, 189
  • author, as discursive function, 141
  • author-God, 47
  • automaton: cinematographic, 177; spiritual, 156, 159–60, 164, 177
  • bachelor, 88, 96–97, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 137; absolute, 220n30; becoming, 108; minority, 109; political/sexual/social, 109; virtual community and, 111
  • bachelor desire, 96–97, 100, 109, 220n30
  • Badiou, Alain, 48, 209, 214n43, 216n4, 220n30
  • Balzac, Honoré de, 102
  • Barthes, Roland, 52, 151
  • “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville), 89, 123, 128; attorney and, 129, 135; Deleuze and, 129, 130, 133, 134, 137, 138; Derrida and, 14, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135; enunciation and, 136; formula of, 130, 131, 133; identification of, 129–30; life/law and, 118; sign of, 131, 133; social relationships and, 132; subjacent identifications and, 130; as zone of indetermination, 133
  • Bataille, Georges, 198
  • Bauer, Felice, 103
  • Beckett, Samuel, 5, 50, 68, 85; characters of, 189; influence of, 13; singularity and, 92
  • becoming, state of, 108, 115
  • becoming-a-bachelor, 103, 109
  • becoming a writer, 92–93, 108, 111
  • becoming-revolutionary, 82, 91
  • Becoming-Woman, 68, 91, 94, 102, 103, 109
  • being, 13; solicitude/solicitation of, 152; understanding of, 16
  • being of beings, 54
  • Benjamin, Walter, 13, 157, 228n60
  • Bergson, Henri, 17, 23, 205, 206, 209, 213n25; creative evolution and, 185; Deleuze and, 174, 214n45, 226n19; duration and, 212n19; élan vital and, 176, 178, 185; fabulation and, 113; human brain and, 177; intuition and, 176; multiplicity and, 227n59; philosophy of, 16, 214n45; spiritualism and, 204; thought/creative memory and, 175
  • Bergsonism (Deleuze), 173, 176, 177, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 192, 195, 202–3, 204, 205, 207
  • Big Theory, 201, 202
  • Blanchot, Maurice, 8, 13, 119, 212n12
  • body, 55; Other and, 161
  • body-image, 51, 206
  • body without organs (BWO), 33, 34, 38, 43, 47, 64, 68
  • bondage, form of, 107
  • boom, crash and, 148, 149, 150
  • Boundas, Constantine, career of, 213n27
  • Bovary, Madame, 91
  • brain: cerebral crystallization of, 203; cinema and, 28, 155, 156, 161, 166, 171, 178; creation of, 177; identifying, 176; image of, 166, 170, 173; military, 171; model for, 169, 170; naturing nature of, 177; organically coordinated, 198; organic composition of, 206; Other and, 161; philosophy and, 189; provocation of, 157; spiritual automaton and, 160; subjects and, 191; thought and, 158; unity and, 166; virtual, 27, 181; world and, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 206
  • brain-image, 51, 181, 206, 209
  • “Brain Is the Screen, The” (Deleuze), 166
  • Brod, Max, 83, 101
  • burrow, 78, 87, 99, 107, 112; rhizome and, 69, 70, 71, 72, 82, 84; spiders and, 71
  • bust, 149; boom and, 148
  • BWO. See body without organs
  • Canetti, Elias, 103
  • capitalism, 125, 193; open society and, 196; universal, 195, 200
  • Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Deleuze and Guattari), 45, 196
  • Carroll, Lewis, 29
  • cartography, principles of, 56
  • Castle, The (Kafka), 69, 71, 72, 84, 98
  • Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 221n1
  • Cather, Willa, 89
  • causality, 40, 157–58, 168
  • Celan, Paul, 29, 212n12
  • Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, minor writers and, 75
  • cerebral crystallization, 182, 203, 210
  • cerebral model, 168, 169
  • Cézanne, Paul, 29, 207
  • chaos, 187, 190, 191, 198; coexisting, 188; confrontation with, 179; ideas and, 181; protection against, 182
  • Chapman, Mark David, Catcher in the Rye and, 221n1
  • character, 189; automatic, 162, 164, 175; determination of, 178; national, 178
  • Christianity, deconstruction of, 197
  • cinema, 158, 167, 169, 170; brain and, 28, 155, 156, 161, 166, 171, 178; culture and, 177; failure of, 165; ideology and, 164; industrial art of, 155, 157, 159, 160; intellectual, 153, 165, 178; language and, 177; as modern art form, 26–27; movement-image and, 160, 163; orthodox montage in, 158; painting and, 27; philosophy and, 160; propagandistic function of, 178; studies, 155, 177; thought and, 156. See also modern cinema
  • Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Deleuze), 155
  • Cinema 2: The Time-Image (Deleuze), 155–56, 163, 167, 169, 188, 205, 207
  • Circumfessions (Derrida), 143
  • clinical, critical and, 121, 124
  • Clockwork Orange, A (film), 170, 214n3
  • closed society, 185, 200
  • cogitatio natura universalis, 2, 37, 43
  • cogito, 10, 11, 39, 42, 118, 182; as BWO, 38; modern, 3, 165
  • “Cogito and the History of Madness, The” (Derrida), 127
  • cognition, 20, 189
  • cognitive psychology, 179, 201
  • collective subject, 78, 163, 193
  • collective substance, singular expression of, 110
  • commentary, 13–14, 120
  • common sense, 6, 28, 35, 37, 60
  • communication, 48, 72, 77, 81, 195, 199; art and, 145–46; community, 185, 197; digital, 192; disciplines of, 193; obligation for, 192; professional, 112; social form of, 193; style and, 146
  • composition, 53, 124
  • concept, 4, 12, 17, 46, 75, 78, 98, 136, 140–41, 144, 184–85, 189, 190, 192, 201, 205, 206; creating, 13, 152, 180, 186, 191; event and, 193; Hegelianism of, 193; philosophical, 186; reality of, 194; vital, 190
  • connection, 54, 56, 59, 66, 67, 165, 174, 189, 198, 199; cerebral, 166; integral, 181; “neurological-vegetative,” 51
  • consciousness, 2, 3, 5, 61, 111, 115, 139, 158, 161, 167, 175; embryonic, 31; empirical, 36; narrative, 36, 83; national, 90; natural, 37, 159; perception and, 112, 169, 171, 172, 176; vegetal, 35
  • content, 73; form of, 76, 77; interpreting, 97
  • copyist, 129, 130, 131, 133
  • cosmic memory, 208
  • Crane, Stephen, 89
  • crash, boom and, 149, 150
  • creation, 33, 57, 80, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180; concept of, 184–85, 186; genesis of, 186; knowledge and, 188; in literature, 138; philosophical concept of, 17, 186; play and, 152
  • creativity, 152, 175, 180, 183, 194
  • critical, 10, 97, 120, 187; clinical and, 121, 124; Deleuzian style of, 150
  • Cronenberg, David Paul, cinema of, 29
  • Crothers, Scatman, 172
  • crystals of time, 205
  • culture, 6, 93, 119, 162; cinema and, 177; commodity, 28; language and, 89; mass, 163; popular, 18
  • cummings, e. e., 29
  • current ideas, 180, 189
  • Darstellungen, 194
  • decalcomania, 56
  • deconstruction, 10, 11, 132, 133, 141, 151, 152, 199; formula of, 130; politics of, 196–97
  • Dedalus, Stephen, 109
  • Deleuze, Gilles, 5, 9, 15, 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 41, 44, 50, 52, 78, 93, 117, 119, 135, 163, 177; Artaud and, 161; Bergson and, 174, 214n45, 226n19; Derrida and, 127, 128, 133, 134, 136, 147, 216n4; Eisenstein and, 169, 170, 177; Guattari and, 48, 87, 125, 217n16; Hume and, 13–14; intuition of, 24; Kafka and, 64, 65, 66, 67, 74, 75, 76, 79–80, 82–83, 91, 103; Kubrick and, 171; Nietzsche and, 14; optimism of, 160, 165; philosophy and, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 37, 45, 49, 54, 67, 94, 142, 149, 187, 188, 189, 191, 196, 197, 205; Proust and, 22, 23, 31, 33, 37, 40, 79–80, 104; Resnais and, 173
  • DeLillo, Don, 89
  • delirium, 112–13, 135; philosophy and, 116–17
  • demand, subjective form of, 107
  • democracy, 137, 197; concept of, 136, 191, 192
  • depressive, 79, 82–83, 86, 218n17
  • Derrida, Jacques, 9, 15, 48, 52, 119, 124, 151; Artaud and, 125–26, 128; commentary of, 120; Deleuze and, 127, 128, 133, 134, 136, 147, 216n4; formula of, 130, 131, 133; Hume and, 14; logic of, 137; philosophy and, 57, 149, 152
  • Descartes, René, 8, 20, 31, 39, 42, 43, 46; BWO and, 38; image of thought and, 2; rationalist philosophy and, 38; representation and, 9; subjective understanding and, 16
  • desire, 2, 39, 86, 199; nature of, 106–7; object and, 85; social assemblages of, 108; theory of, 218n17
  • determination, 176, 177, 178; collective, 88; private/detective, 109
  • dialectical materialism, 160
  • Dialogues II (Deleuze), 205
  • Dickens, Charles, 102
  • différance, 10, 134, 137, 138, 139, 152
  • difference, 3, 14, 20, 120, 139, 149; concept of, 12, 17, 144; multiplicity and, 22; ontological, 10; philosophy of, 117, 118, 119, 141, 144, 152; repetition and, 3, 124
  • Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), 2, 4, 7, 20, 22, 30, 37, 48, 117, 123, 124, 156, 165; as anti-philosophy, 15; originality of, 14; quote from, 143–44
  • discourse, 119, 143, 197; clinical/critical, 120; philosophical, 141, 143; purely literary, 142; speed of, 189
  • disequilibrium, 148, 149
  • Disseminations (Derrida), 143
  • Dosse, Françoise, 56
  • doxa, 2, 60, 178, 180, 183
  • Dracula, 103, 104
  • Dr. Strangelove (film), 170
  • Duns Scotus, 23
  • Durrell, Lawrence, 92; cinema and, 177
  • écart, 167, 168, 183, 204
  • Eco, Umberto, 145
  • education, learning and, 28
  • egoism, 195, 217n5
  • Eisenstein, Sergei, 157, 167, 177, 224n2; cinema and, 160, 161, 163, 165; Deleuze and, 169, 170, 177; intellectual montage and, 159; movement-image and, 163
  • élan vital, 176, 178, 182, 185, 194, 203
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 14, 89, 116
  • emotion, 158, 167, 175, 189, 192, 205; creative, 166, 174, 186; representation and, 186
  • enunciation, 106, 132, 147, 221n1; collective, 11, 75, 76, 77, 88, 89, 90, 95, 99, 101, 108, 109, 110, 111, 137, 209; fictionalized/impersonal forms of, 101; individual, 48, 95; literary, 95, 99, 101, 103, 111, 136; subject of, 47, 137; subjective, 100, 101, 104, 105
  • epokhē, 12, 38–39
  • equilibrium, 148, 149
  • error: multiple forms of, 11; in principle, 128
  • Essays Critical and Clinical (Deleuze), 113
  • essential Egoism, 217n5
  • ethnicity, 55, 100, 115
  • event, 26, 129, 190, 194, 197, 198; concept and, 193; self-positing reality and, 201
  • evolution, 26–27, 176, 185
  • exceptionalism, 102
  • experience, 36, 117, 165, 212n12; beyond the turn of, 204
  • experimentation, 5, 8, 18, 60, 66, 99, 152
  • expression, 1, 3, 6, 23, 49, 74, 97, 99, 110, 200; anthropological, 11; blocks of, 76; collective, 109; forms of, 76, 77, 78, 98, 101; materials for, 6, 75; method and, 63, 95; minority, 110; philosophical, 46; revolutionary, 47
  • fascicular root, 51, 53
  • fascism, 98, 99, 162
  • Faulkner, William, 89
  • feeling, 30, 140
  • Flaubert, Gustave, 91–92, 102; becoming a writer and, 92–93; Becoming-Woman and, 94; petty Bourgeois and, 91; theory of mediation and, 96
  • Flaxman, Gregory, 214n2
  • Fold, The (Deleuze), 111, 143
  • “Force and Signification” (Derrida), 150
  • Ford, John, 177
  • formlessness, 59, 161, 181
  • forms, 5, 77, 197
  • Foucault, Michel, 3, 11, 55; author and, 141; cogito and, 118; disciplinary orders and, 191; “Will to Truth” and, 216n4
  • Frankfurt School, 187
  • freedom, 18, 176
  • Freud, Sigmund, 152, 172
  • friendship, 188; democratic idea of, 191; as face-to-face experience, 212n12
  • Full Metal Jacket (film), 170, 214n2
  • Gardner, Chance, 31
  • Gay Science, The (Nietzsche), 201
  • Geist, 193, 194
  • Genet, Jean, 86, 219n23
  • Genette, Gérard, influence of, 13
  • Georg, Stefan, 79, 214n5
  • Gestalt image, 169, 181, 199
  • Gestalt principle, 182, 189, 190, 191, 194, 197
  • Gestalt theory, 179, 201, 202
  • Gift of Death, The (Derrida), 131
  • Glas (Derrida), 143
  • God, 13, 182; Self and, 20
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 101, 221n1
  • good readers, 49, 58
  • “Great Wall of China, The,” 79, 81, 84
  • Guattari, Félix, 7, 15, 18, 19, 23, 47, 48, 52, 78, 80, 93, 147; Badiou and, 216n4; Deleuze and, 48, 87, 125, 217n16; encounter with, 13; Kafka and, 64, 65, 66, 67, 74, 75, 76, 82–83, 91, 103; philosophy and, 16, 17, 19, 22, 24, 45, 49, 54, 67, 187, 188, 189, 191
  • guilt of the subject, 78–79
  • habit, 2, 203
  • hallucination, 112, 170, 171; literary production and, 113; psychotic, 173; reality and, 172; writer, 111
  • Hallward, Peter, 220n30
  • Hardt, Michael, Multitude and, 197–98
  • Harmonia Prestabilitia, 182
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 89
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 116, 144; concept and, 193; Eurocentricity and, 224n79; Geist and, 194; image of thought and, 2; Mind and, 193; phenomenology of, 46; philosophical Bildungsroman and, 142; philosophy and, 160; unthought and, 8
  • Hegelianism, 162, 193, 199
  • Heidegger, Martin, 2, 3, 8–9, 41, 54, 118, 160, 214n5, 224n79; Being and, 16; food for thought and, 180; image of thought and, 9; philosophy and, 30–31, 57; thinking and, 30, 31; unthought and, 8
  • hermeneutic theory, 49, 65, 66
  • “He Stuttered” (Deleuze), 145, 147–48
  • heterogeneity, 54, 56, 137
  • historical loss, 88, 151
  • history, 47; genetic/formal, 145
  • History of Metaphysics, 10, 57
  • Hölderlin, Friedrich, 9, 119, 122–23, 197
  • human desire, Oedipal organization of, 219n23
  • humanism, 11
  • human nature, 39, 176–77
  • Hume, David, 2, 13–14
  • Husserl, Edmund, 224n79
  • I, 4, 18
  • ideas, 42, 65, 92; abstractions and, 181; chaos and, 181; current, 180, 189, 190; signification of, 93; vital, 180, 190, 191, 206
  • identification, 99, 116, 129–30, 199
  • identity, 10, 21, 54, 124, 149; authorial, 147; civil, 146, 147; national, 100; social, 100, 101, 105, 106; subject, 192; subjective, 9, 11
  • ideology, 92, 135, 184; cinema and, 164; problem of, 161
  • “I is an Other,” 4
  • image of thought, 9, 12, 157, 161, 179, 188, 189, 195; described, 1–2; phallic organization of, 54; presentation of, 212n19; presupposition of, 28; problem of, 10
  • images, 92, 161, 162, 174; brain and, 166; Deleuzian, 199; pre-philosophical, 208; quantitative volume of, 173; thinking, 1, 3; virtual, 3, 206, 209; visual/sound, 165
  • imagination, 20, 21, 30, 205
  • imitation, 147, 198
  • immanence, 10, 190; discussions of, 12–13; plan/plane of, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14–15, 17, 19, 21, 28, 45, 46, 52, 205, 208, 227n58; representation of, 54
  • impressions, 34, 35, 42, 43, 58
  • individual, 18, 47, 95, 111
  • individuation, 4, 105, 108, 184
  • industrial art, 155, 157, 159, 160
  • Industrial Light and Magic, 157
  • instinct, 191; intelligence and, 163, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 204, 208; virtual, 174, 182, 183, 184–85
  • Instincts and Institutions (Deleuze), 182
  • integration, 198, 199
  • intelligence, 41, 65; active, 188; emotional, 158; ersatz of, 183; instinct and, 163, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 204, 208; intermediary of, 174, 184; primal work of, 175; society and, 173; storytelling function and, 196; thinking and, 187
  • interpretation, 32, 42, 64, 65, 106, 216–17n5; extrinsic, 49; involuntary machine of, 49; literary, 78; machine of, 215n11; philosophical, 40; postmodernist, 187; psychoanalytic, 171; theories for, 97
  • interrogation, 139, 142
  • “In the Cathedral” (Kafka), 84
  • intuition, 20, 186; achieving, 205; creative, 174; duration and, 158; mystical, 204, 205, 206, 208; original, 17; philosophy and, 16, 205; pure, 205, 207
  • isolation, problem of, 200
  • “Is There a Philosophical Language?” (Derrida), 142
  • Jameson, Fredric, 55, 87, 199; idea and, 93, 94; on Kafka, 102; singularity and, 92; social meaning and, 105; style and, 95
  • Joyce, James, 52, 92, 109, 177
  • “Judgment, The” (Kafka), 70, 73, 79
  • Kabuki, 157, 166, 224n2
  • Kafka, Franz, 29, 36, 54, 57, 77, 81, 84, 85, 88, 92, 119; achievement of, 98; creating, 106; criticism of, 82; defining, 218n17; Derrida and, 64, 65, 66, 67, 74, 75, 76, 79–80, 82–83, 91, 103; diaries of, 103; influence of, 13; interpretations of, 65; Kleist and, 102; Kubrick and, 172; misreading of, 65; obsession of, 107; postcolonial, 65; Proust and, 79–80, 83, 106; psychoanalytic, 65; reading, 64, 74, 75, 76; work of, 77, 83
  • Kafka experiment, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68
  • Kafka’s Other Trial (Canetti), 103
  • Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Deleuze and Guattari), 44, 63, 82, 88, 95
  • Kant, Immanuel, 11, 15, 30, 116, 201; Cartesian machine and, 20; duty and, 133; heliocentricity and, 224n79; image of thought and, 2; transcendental synthesis and, 182
  • Kantian Subject, 12
  • Kennedy, John F., 171
  • Keynes, John Maynard, 148
  • Khrushchev, Nikita, 171
  • Klein, Melanie, 85, 218n17
  • Kleist, Heinrich von, 49, 101, 102, 108
  • Klondike Wilderness, 190, 200
  • knowledge, 117, 197; absolute, 185, 186; boundary-/limit-concept of, 140–41; contemplation without, 188; creation and, 188; discourse of, 120; model of, 164
  • Kosinski, Jerzy, 31
  • Kubrick, Stanley, 172, 173, 214n2; films of, 170, 171
  • Kuhn, Thomas, 202
  • Lacan, Jacques, 50, 55, 168
  • La Carte postale (Derrida), 133, 143
  • La Femme Célibataire, 102
  • language, 7, 31, 133, 150, 200; bust of, 148–49; cinema and, 177; collective unity of, 75; culture and, 89; descriptive, 145; fictionality/poetics of, 142; film, 170; foreign, 145; madness and, 126–27; philosophical, 142; presupposing, 74; primitive, 156; proper, 59; rupture of, 149; secondary, 145; semiotic system of, 169; as social institution, 132; stuttering and, 145; style and, 148; theories of, 66; thought and, 160; utilization of, 94
  • “La parole soufflée” (Derrida), 119, 122
  • Laplanche, Jean, 119, 122, 123, 222n8
  • law, 79, 118; inventing, 107; principle of, 137; signs of, 42
  • “Law of the Signifier, The” (Deleuze and Guattari), 168
  • law without literature, 135–36
  • L’Écriture et différence (Derrida), 119
  • Leibniz, Gottfried, 17, 23, 53, 111, 182, 188; Eurocentricity and, 224n79; philosophy of, 225n1
  • Lettres françaises, Deleuze in, 4
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 172
  • L’Homme Célibataire, 102
  • linguistic formalism, 169
  • linguistics, 55, 56, 66, 75, 138, 166, 168
  • literary criticism, 36, 95, 121
  • literary machine, 20, 23, 29, 31, 43, 44, 56, 70, 71, 72, 75, 80, 82, 83, 94, 117, 136; concept of, 78; interpretation of, 42, 97; objective determinations and, 87; philosophy and, 24; Proustian, 24, 32, 37; second, 60
  • literary process, 95–96, 115, 138
  • literary statements, 97, 99, 100, 137
  • literature, 8, 57, 89, 135, 136; becoming-revolutionary of, 91; creation in, 138; critical representations of, 76–77; enunciation and, 111; globalized, 220n30; invention of, 25; life and, 90; Marxist criticism of, 76; modern, 76–77, 90, 98, 106, 108, 116; objective determination of, 106; philosophy and, 142; postcolonial field of, 110; rhizome and, 69; space of, 137. See also minor literature
  • literature of commitment, 90
  • literature without democracy, 136
  • literature without law, 136
  • Livre à venir (Blanchot), 119
  • logic, 56, 100, 140
  • Logique du sens (Deleuze), 121
  • logos, 44, 79, 116, 218n19
  • “Louis Wolfson; or, The Procedure” (Deleuze), 126–27
  • machine, 24, 27, 42, 46, 65, 72, 80; art as, 25; bachelor, 63, 88, 102, 104, 109; book, 51, 52; brain, 156, 160, 177; Cartesian, 20, 43; desiring, 19, 68; function of, 26; Guattari and, 25, 31, 43, 45, 55–56, 70, 85, 87; interrelationship between, 30; literary, 23, 60, 94; painting, 27; philosophy and, 20; producing perception with, 25; reading, 26; social, 19; social function and, 78; technical, 19, 23, 29, 98, 156–57; term, 213n38; war, 19, 102. See also writing machine
  • machine célibataire, 63, 102
  • “Machine et structure” (Guattari), 31, 56, 91
  • madness, 18, 48, 116, 117, 140, 222n8; construction of, 121; in-itself, 127; innocence and, 34; language of, 126–27; phenomenon of, 222n25; work and, 122, 124, 125, 127; writing and, 118
  • “‘Madness’ Must Watch Over Our Thinking, A” (Derrida), 148
  • Mallarmé, Stéphane, 52, 116
  • Many, One and, 22
  • Marcel Proust et les signes (Deleuze), 31
  • marketing, 17, 194, 195
  • Marx, Karl, 144, 220n30
  • Marxism, 7, 55, 76, 77, 123, 199
  • masochism, 86, 137, 138
  • matter: re-creation of, 173; spiritualization of, 176
  • Matter and Memory (Bergson), 176, 177, 205
  • media, 28, 193
  • Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes), 20, 38, 46, 58
  • Melville, Herman, 89, 118, 132, 134, 137, 223n42; Bartleby and, 128, 135
  • memory, 21, 33, 34, 40, 42, 170; blocks of, 76, 95; cosmic, 185, 208; creating, 173, 177; integrations of, 189; lapse of, 171; perception and, 1; principle of, 176; Proustian image of, 33; spiritual equivalent of, 33; transpersonal, 185
  • memory-images, 165, 204
  • mental objects, 194; real beings and, 190
  • mental processes, 180, 189
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 7
  • “Message from the Emperor, The” (Kafka), 84
  • “Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 36, 72–73
  • metaphor, 18, 74, 78, 81, 96, 201
  • metaphysics, 12, 53, 131, 149; de-centering, 11–12; end of, 198; history of, 134; standpoint of, 126; thought and, 128; transgression of, 128
  • method, 38, 41; expression and, 63, 95
  • metonymy, 80, 96
  • Michaux, Henri, 166, 180, 212n12
  • minority peoples, 78, 100
  • minority writers, 78, 82, 93, 94, 101, 113
  • minor literature, 74, 88, 89, 90, 94, 96, 97, 106, 108, 111, 113; concept of, 75, 98; defining, 100, 101; primary characteristics of, 99
  • modern cinema, 153, 156, 157, 165, 169, 177; ideology and, 164; image of thought in, 155. See also cinema
  • modernism, 77, 92, 98, 110, 196
  • Molloy (Beckett), 5, 85
  • montage: framing and, 27; intellectual, 159, 160; orthodox, 158; thought, 158–59
  • Morrison, Toni, 89
  • movement, 156, 169, 199; cause of, 167; relationship of, 26; thinking and, 15, 47
  • movement-image, 158, 159, 164, 165–66, 166–67, 175; character of, 162; cinema and, 160, 163; dominance of, 165; synthesis of, 163; time-image and, 27
  • multiplicity, 53, 54, 67, 88, 214n45, 227n59; difference and, 22; metaphysical pretension of, 22; philosophy and, 23; principle of, 55
  • multitude, 196, 197–98
  • mystical intuition, 185, 197, 204
  • myth, 197, 208
  • Nabokov, Vladimir, 92
  • Nancy, Jean-Luc, 197
  • narrator: as in-human, 43; presuppositions and, 34
  • naturalism, 157, 159, 228n60
  • natura naturans, 182, 206
  • nature, 182, 183; naturing, 176, 177; power of, 162; semi-autonomous forces of, 184
  • Nature-Culture, 162
  • Negri, Antonio, 192, 193, 197–98
  • Nesbitt, Nick, 217n3
  • neurobiology, 208
  • neurology, 56, 164, 168, 204
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, 50, 116, 142, 148, 164, 201; Deleuze and, 14
  • Nietzsche and Philosophy (Deleuze), 14
  • nihilism, philosophy and, 163
  • nonlinguistic model, 172
  • Non-Objectified Brain, 179, 182, 203
  • nonorganic life, 138
  • nonphilosophy, 6; philosophy and, 9, 16, 19–20, 23, 25
  • nonresponse, 132, 134, 136, 137
  • non-sense, forms of, 124
  • nonstyle, 15, 147–48, 150
  • nooshock, 157, 159, 164
  • noosigns, 170
  • not thinking, impossibility of, 161, 162
  • object: desire and, 85; subject and, 207
  • objective conditions, 9, 36, 100
  • objective determination, 87, 108, 111
  • object-world, 10
  • Oedipus, 123, 126
  • Of Grammatology (Derrida), 15, 117, 139, 151
  • One, 13, 63–64, 66, 80, 85; identifying, 64; Many and, 22
  • One-All, power of, 16, 17
  • “On Nietzsche and the Image of Thought” (Deleuze), 4
  • On the Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche), 14
  • “On the Two Regimes of Madness” (Guattari), 18
  • ontology, 11, 181, 209
  • openness, 174, 198
  • open society, 185, 196, 200
  • opinion, 2, 179, 180, 181, 199, 203; determination of, 178
  • Order of Things, The (Foucault), 3
  • order words, 78, 102, 220n21
  • original thinker, model of, 13
  • Other, 126, 131, 161, 164, 167
  • pain, physical experiences of, 36
  • painting, 5; cinema and, 27
  • parallelism, 182, 201
  • paranoia, 170, 171
  • paranoid law, schizo-law and, 81
  • paranoid-schizoid position, 79, 80, 82, 218n17
  • Pascal, Blaise, 164
  • Paths of Glory (film), 170
  • perception, 20, 21, 34, 113, 140, 165, 174, 175, 205; actualized, 209; cognition and, 189; conscious/empirical, 111; consciousness and, 112, 169, 171, 172, 176; determination of, 178; external, 173; memory and, 1; microscopic, 111; natural, 28, 29; reaction and, 167; thought and, 160; unconscious, 112; writing and, 35
  • perception-images, 165, 175, 204
  • phenomenology, 7, 10, 11, 199, 209
  • philosophers, 14, 131, 142, 149, 150, 181; activity of, 152, 186; contemporary, 221n2; open society of, 185; signature of/activity, 203
  • philosophy, 6, 17, 30, 53–55, 58, 94, 141, 147, 169, 185–87, 196, 202, 208; academic, 7; anti-Hegelian, 188; bankruptcy of, 18; book of, 143–44; brain and, 189; cinema and, 160; classical, 37–38; cognitive psychology and, 179; contemporary, 13, 16, 21, 45–46, 56; creation of, 152, 177; delirium and, 116–17; duration of, 205–6; future of, 15; history of, 16, 144, 164; intuition and, 16, 205; literature and, 142; machines and, 20, 24, 45, 46; marketing and, 194; mental objects of, 190–91; modern, 18, 20, 24, 155; multiplicity and, 23; myth of, 195; nihilism and, 163; nonphilosophy and, 9, 16, 19–20, 23, 25; ontology and, 209; post-Kantian, 11; postmodern, 14–15, 187; presupposition in, 24, 37; representation and, 20–21; reproduction of, 144; task of, 22; thought and, 35; writing and, 117, 118, 142
  • plan/plane of immanence, 9, 12, 13, 14–15, 17, 21, 28, 45, 46, 52, 208, 227n58; philosophy and, 19; presupposing, 8; speed and, 205; survey of (survoler), 205
  • plane of consistency, 55, 59
  • Plato, 31, 134, 142, 197
  • Platonism, 32, 33
  • play: circular, 184; creation and, 152
  • Political Unconscious, The (Jameson), 199
  • politics, 8, 92, 93, 157, 191
  • portrait-photos, 73, 74
  • Post Card, The (Descartes), 133, 143
  • Présentation de Sacher-Masoch (Deleuze), 121, 122
  • presupposition, 12, 24, 40, 46, 59, 64, 93, 126, 156, 195, 207, 208; critical, 77; destruction of, 47; hermeneutic, 67; metaphysical, 125; narrator and, 34; objective, 38, 39; problem of, 1, 9; subjective, 8, 37, 39, 48–49; theoretical, 67
  • production, 152, 194, 201; process of, 32–33, 92
  • progressive method, 91, 96
  • Proust, Marcel, 13, 20, 28, 30, 47, 50, 52, 56, 70, 81, 84–85, 92, 119; animal logos and, 46; animal writing machine and, 44; art and, 33; cinema and, 177; Deleuze and, 22, 23, 31, 33, 37, 40, 79–80, 104; enunciation and, 88; guilt of the subject and, 78–79; Kafka and, 79–80, 83, 106; literary machine and, 24, 43, 72, 74, 83, 87, 215n11; on material object, 42; on memory/spiritual equivalent, 33; philosophy and, 33, 37; Platonism and, 32; profound reality and, 80; reading and, 64, 65, 73; representation of, 35; spider-narrator and, 71; subjectivity and, 207; vegetal logos of, 78; writing and, 115
  • Proust and Signs (Deleuze), 25, 34, 36, 56, 70, 79–80, 156, 218n19; key passage from, 84; publication/translation of, 215n6; reading, 144; style and, 72
  • Proustian narrator, 36, 40, 48, 83
  • psychic mechanisms, 112, 168
  • psychoanalysis, 57, 66, 121, 122, 123, 128, 166, 167–68; relationship and, 172
  • Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The (Freud), 152
  • Pynchon, Thomas, 89
  • qualitative intensity, creation/invention of, 174
  • “Questions of Responsibility” (Derrida), 134
  • race, 55, 115
  • radical critique, 12, 152–53
  • radical-system, 51–52
  • rationalism, 2, 38
  • rationality, 64, 65
  • reading, 132; formulaic, 129; hermeneutical protocols of, 48
  • Real, 23, 54; imaginary and, 173; representation of, 74
  • reality, 190; external, 172; hallucination and, 172; self-positing, 193–94, 201
  • reason, 2; image of, 168, 182
  • recognition, 180, 195
  • recollection, 40, 175, 176
  • relationships, presupposed, 88, 89–90
  • repetition, 3, 17, 145, 147, 149, 165; difference and, 3, 124; strategy of, 130
  • “Repetition In-Itself” (Deleuze), 3
  • representation, 9, 28, 35, 54, 74, 76–77, 93, 169, 198; cinematographic, 157; conscious, 7; critical, 76–77; emotion and, 186; fictitious, 184; natural, 2, 21; perception-consciousness in, 172; philosophy and, 20–21
  • reproduction, 44, 144, 179, 201; condition of, 199; mechanical, 157; product-moment correlation of, 199; vegetal, 44
  • resemblance, 124, 194–95
  • Resnais, Alain, films of, 170, 173
  • response: social ritual of, 132; stimulus and, 166, 167, 172
  • revolutionary becoming, 18, 49–50
  • rhizome, 23, 44, 45, 48, 54, 56, 61, 64, 66, 67, 73, 77, 99; as anti-method, 60, 63; book as, 58; as book machine, 53; burrow and, 69, 70, 71, 72, 82, 84; concept of, 46; defined, 68–69; first principle of, 59; introduction to, 57–58; proper, 52; questions about, 68; roots/radicals and, 57; writing/literature and, 69
  • Rhizome: Introduction (Deleuze and Guattari), 44
  • Ricardou, Jean, 13
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria, 101
  • “Roundtable on Proust” (Deleuze), 34
  • Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von 121–122, 127
  • Sade, Marquis de, 13, 121–122
  • Salinger, J. D., 89
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul, 76, 100, 106; clandestine future and, 95; colonized and, 91; on Flaubert, 91–92; literature of commitment and, 90; observations of, 101; progressive-regressive method and, 96; social meaning and, 105; style and, 92; writing and, 94, 106–7
  • Saussure, Ferdinand de, 138
  • Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph, 193
  • schematizations, proliferation of, 151, 152
  • schizoanalysis, 123, 126
  • schizo-analytic project, 50
  • schizo-flow, 51, 82
  • schizoid, 82–83, 102
  • schizo-law, paranoid law and, 81
  • schizophrenia, 68, 86, 102, 117, 126, 128, 150, 184; historical closure of, 125; as universal problem, 122–23
  • Schreber, Daniel Paul, 50
  • Schrift, Alan, 14
  • science, 10, 29, 117, 202; cognitive, 158; mental objects of, 190–91; philosophy of, 177; polite, 132; postmodernist interpretation of, 187; technical machines and, 23
  • science fiction, 89, 109, 110
  • Search for a Method (Sartre), 90
  • self, 4, 8, 18, 34; God and, 20; interiority of, 47; self-affection, 204, 207
  • self-positing, 201
  • semiotic acts, 55, 59, 168
  • sensory-motor schema, 166
  • Serres, Michel, 179, 225n1
  • sexuality, 55, 85, 86, 123, 219n23
  • Shakespeare, William, 106
  • Shining, The (film), 170, 171, 172
  • signals, interpreting, 35
  • signification, 31, 65, 93, 139, 152, 189, 197; abstract, 198; force and, 143; second-level order of, 145
  • signified, 140; signifier and, 168
  • signifier, 91, 121, 141, 149; signified and, 168
  • signs, 40, 41, 42, 43, 140; heterogeneous, 58; interpretation of, 64, 65; visible/invisible, 26; web-body of, 35
  • silence, 149, 153
  • Simondon, Gilbert, 172
  • singularity, 4, 92, 146, 147
  • social assemblages, 55, 103, 108, 199, 221n1
  • social body, 108, 112
  • social desire, 105, 107, 108, 116
  • social division, 86, 219n23
  • social field, 109, 110
  • social function, 78, 90
  • social imperative, resistance to, 132
  • social relationships, 103, 132
  • social situations, 54, 55, 77, 131
  • social values, 93, 193
  • society: intelligence and, 173; pressure of, 183
  • Socrates, 133
  • Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 221n1
  • sovereignty, theory of, 196
  • speech: act, 141; contract of, 135; event, 129; writing and, 134, 138
  • Speer, Albert, 157
  • spider-narrator, 43, 44, 46, 52, 71, 83, 84
  • Spinoza, Baruch, 23, 182, 213n25
  • spiritual automaton, 156, 159–60, 164, 177
  • spiritual equivalent, 33, 41, 42
  • spiritualism, 43, 204
  • statements, 112, 165, 175, 198
  • stimulus, response and, 166, 167, 172
  • Stirner, Max, 220n30
  • storytelling function, 173, 184, 187, 196
  • structuralism, 10, 57, 122, 151
  • structure, 7, 11, 54, 56, 57, 59, 151, 182; negative of, 125; notion of, 55, 124; truth of, 125
  • Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 202
  • stupidity, 30, 39, 68
  • stuttering, 150
  • style, 6, 72, 95, 99, 118, 127, 205, 220n15; becoming and, 92; communication and, 146; delirium and, 116; Derridian, 118, 143, 146, 151; as economy of language, 148; external, 145; foreign language and, 145; modern writers and, 95; politics of, 143; question of, 115–16; recognition of, 146; silence and, 153; writing and, 144
  • subject, 159; brain and, 191; defining, 115; events/images and, 26; object and, 169, 207; transcendental, 182
  • subjective, 9, 22, 27, 36, 94, 100, 103, 105, 175
  • subjectivity, 8, 11, 12, 111; critique of, 10; foundation of, 207; model of, 195; social, 92, 112; virtual and, 207
  • substance, 13, 74
  • superject (Whitehead), 177, 182
  • survoler (survey), 169, 172, 205
  • Swift, Jonathan, 89
  • Tarkovsky, Andrei, 29
  • technology, 10, 26, 28, 53, 162
  • Tel Quel, Derrida in, 119
  • theory, 66, 190, 195, 196; closed society of, 202; collective assemblages of, 199–200; discussions in, 201
  • Theory of Multiplicities, 206, 214n45
  • thinker, 39, 85, 86
  • thinking, 39, 45, 46, 175, 176, 192, 195, 202; commodity culture and, 28; emotion of, 186; goodwill of, 37; impossibility of, 161; piety of, 31; possibility of, 30; productive/reproductive, 179; provoking, 156; reverse proof of, 165; as subjective determination, 30; transformation of, 164
  • thinking differently, impossibility of, 161
  • Thoreau, Henry David, 89
  • thought, 34, 63, 140; automatic character of, 159, 162, 175; brain and, 158; cinema and, 156; experiment, 201; image of, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 21, 33, 37, 39–40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 59, 155, 157, 161, 179, 188, 189, 195, 206, 207, 208, 209; intelligence/instinct and, 187, 204; interval in, 156; language and, 160; leap in, 180, 187, 197; levels of, 209; metaphysics and, 128; movement of, 15, 47; negative of, 128; perception and, 160; philosophy and, 35; power over, 45; process of, 160; sensibility of, 159; vigilance of, 61
  • Thousand Plateaus, A (Deleuze and Guattari), 23, 45, 48, 49, 52, 56, 67, 103, 109, 143
  • time, 40, 140; crystalline image of, 228n60; objective determination of, 105
  • time-image, 27, 166
  • totalitarianism, 98, 99
  • totalization, 52, 144, 146
  • transcendental empirical method, 206
  • transference, psychoanalytic theory of, 116
  • transgression, 128, 138
  • transversal dimension, 145, 146
  • Treatise on Human Nature (Hume), 14
  • tree book, 51, 53
  • Trial, The (Kafka), 69, 70, 83, 84
  • truth, 8, 38, 41, 125, 136, 195
  • turning point, 181, 201, 202
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 170, 171
  • unconscious, 57, 64, 81, 112, 152, 168, 172, 218n17; structure of, 55, 168
  • understanding, 21, 88, 174
  • Unnamable, The (Beckett), 5
  • unthought, 3, 61
  • ur-doxa, 162, 187, 195
  • vegetal logos, complex, 78
  • Venus in Furs (Sacher-Masoch), 122
  • Virilio, Paul, 162
  • virtual, 18, 187, 189, 190, 203; actual and, 173, 206, 207, 208; brain and, 181, 202; concept of, 205; current idea of, 181; indeterminate and, 186; moral image of, 184; as real being, 181; subjectivity and, 207
  • Was ist das—die Philosophie? (Heidegger), 30
  • What Is Called Thinking? (Heidegger), 30
  • What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze and Guattari), 7, 8, 18, 19, 169, 176, 186, 187, 191, 193, 195, 198, 203
  • “What Is Political Literature?” (Sartre), 76
  • Whitehead, Alfred North, 177, 182
  • Whitman, Walt, 89
  • whole, 23, 65, 80, 162, 164, 203; change for, 161; fragmentary, 46, 212n15; internalization of, 163; multiplicity from, 85; parts and, 22; pure intuition of, 207; solicitude/solicitation of, 151
  • will, 8, 20
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 9
  • Wolfson, Louis, 126
  • “Words” (Heidegger), 214n3
  • work: construction of, 121; madness and, 122, 124, 125, 127
  • Worker’s Accident Insurance Company, 97
  • world, 13; brain and, 167, 168, 172, 173, 206
  • writer, 85, 90, 142; becoming, 92–93, 108, 111; subjective determination of, 106; understanding of, 112
  • writing, 74–75, 89, 93, 106–7, 115, 118–19, 135, 139, 140–41, 143; assemblage, 108; bureaucratic, 97; cerebral, 56; commitment to, 107; conventions of, 147; dangerous/insane game of, 116, 140; experience of, 117; legal, 97, 129; literary, 105; madness and, 118; perception and, 35; philosophy and, 117, 118; process, 11, 51, 95, 96, 104, 147; property of, 134; question of, 116–17, 139, 142; rhizome and, 69; shadowy, 140; speech and, 134, 138; style and, 144
  • Writing and Difference (Derrida), 15, 150
  • writing machine, 33, 48, 50, 51, 58, 74, 82, 87, 96, 115, 116, 118, 122, 143, 146, 153; animal, 44; as bachelor machine, 104; conception of, 147; evolution of, 26–27; inventing, 25; subjective determination of, 107
  • Zoē, 12, 196
  • Zourabichvili, François, 60, 63, 64

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Support for this research was provided by the Syracuse University Office of Research with support from the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

Chapter 4 previously appeared as Gregg Lambert, “The Bachelor-Machine: Kafka and the Question of Minority Literature,” in Franz Kafka: A Minority Report, ed. Petr Kouba et al., Literaria Pragensia (Prague: Charles University, 2011), 7–31.

Earlier versions of chapter 5 appeared in Gregg Lambert, “The Subject of Literature between Derrida and Deleuze—Law or Life?” Angelaki 5, no. 2 (2001), 177–90, reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis (http://www.tandfonline.com); and Gregg Lambert, “The Philosopher and the Writer: A Question of Style,” in Between Deleuze and Derrida, ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003), 120–34.

Sections of chapter 6 appeared in Gregg Lambert, “Cinema and the Outside,” in The Brain Is the Screen: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema, ed. Gregory Flaxman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 253–92.

Portions of the Conclusion appeared in Gregg Lambert, “The Unconscious Leap in Thought,” Theory@Buffalo (Spring 2009), 21–44.

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