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The Open And The Suspension Of Being: A Review Article Of New Work By Agamben, Heller-Roazen, And Smock, Paolo Bartoloni
The Open And The Suspension Of Being: A Review Article Of New Work By Agamben, Heller-Roazen, And Smock, Paolo Bartoloni
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Watsuji And Deleuze And Guattari In The Climate Of Culture, Seth Jacobowitz
Watsuji And Deleuze And Guattari In The Climate Of Culture, Seth Jacobowitz
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Seth Jacobowitz, in his paper "Watsuji and Deleuze and Guattari in the Climate of Culture," analyzes theories of cultural properties in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus alongside Watsuji Tetsuro's prewar Climate and Culture. At stake in these investigations is the status of the West as a universalizing particular ratified by these authors in the instance of its own critique. We are confronted on the one hand with Deleuze and Guattari's exoticized, Orientalist promise of an alternative economy of meaning derived from the Balinese term for "plateau" and the morphology of the rhizome and, on the other hand, …