Week 2 Reading, Critical Theory Seminar (1)

Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book: I for Idea


L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (“Gilles Deleuze’s alphabet book”) is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988–1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYJea9RaMQ&feature=youtu.be
18/09/20 2:00 PM start time

READING NOTES (H3)

  • Deleuze’s Idea
    • idea over everything – having idea is celebration – different kinds/forms of ideas:
  • concept / percept / affect
    • philosophical concept, pictoral(illustrative) percept, musical affect
    • concept: new way of thought / twists thought
    • percept: web of perceptions+sensations that exist independently of artist / twists nerve
    • affect: becomings that overflow and spill past those that experience them / twists being

INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

exegesis (+commentary): critical explanation or interpertation of

POST-READ

Can different areas work with different kinds of ideas? Grasping at affect … I think affect the bit before sensing, like embodied emapthy, there but not known, in motion not in position.
Deleuze is very difficult I am glad to have a cohort to struggle through with, and faculty to lead me around it.

18/09/20 3:12 PM end time

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