Deleuze and Guattari - How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?

Deleuze and Guattari - How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?

Author: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour September 1, 2025 Duration: 1:34:05
Charles Stivale joined us to discuss November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? from Deleuze and Guattari's landmark work, A Thousand Plateaus. Stivale has authored six books in nineteenth and twentieth-century French and Francophone studies, has edited or co-edited three volumes of studies and six journal issues, has prepared translations of two major works, a half-dozen article, and the eight hour video interview with Gilles Deleuze, published (by MIT Press/Zone) as Gilles Deleuze, From A to Z (2012). He has also published eighty journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. His research fields have included study of the nineteenth-century French novel, twentieth-century critical theory and cultural studies, the writings of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and research on Louisiana Cajun music and dance culture. Between 2005 and 2011, he collaborated with the former director of the University of Florida Paris Research Center, Gayle Zachmann, to organize an annual meeting of scholars in nineteenth-century French studies. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=8df4d7a45bd444af84969fb20629d81d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Dan Smith's Episode on Deleuze's The Fold: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/daniel-w-smith-deleuzes-the-fold?si=29e1f5718f394a59b441ae4fcddf0e70&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Charles Episode on the ABC's of Deleuze: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-the-abcs-of-deleuze?si=7e3c396f9973460f8738e2b6acd3d841&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Charles and Dan's Episode on Deleuze and Painting: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-dan-smith-painting-and-the-question-of-concepts?si=f22a83b54ac3466c970bf3bc2fd49146&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Deleuze Tee Shirt Link: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6989967-minimal-deleuze-philosophy-of-gilles-deleuze-rhizo Photo of Deleuze Lecturing: https://share.google/images/YYVmKv9zVtX2gsA4n Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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Deleuze and Guattari - Vampires, Contagion, & The Secret [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:23
This week Coop and Taylor discuss 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A heretical reading on alliance, filiation, fascism, and the secret. A Th…
Moishe Postone - Time, Labor, and Social Domination [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:12
This week Coop and Taylor discuss chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Moishe Postone's Time, Labor, and Social Domination. We discuss ties to our manuscript, Deleuze & Guattari, and Baudrillard. William Wordsworth's The World is Too…
Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter Redux [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:20
This week Coop and Taylor revisit the Introduction and 1st chapter in Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information: the introduction and ch 1. Form and Matter. The discussion largely focus…
Conor O'Dea - Henri Atlan on Spinoza [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:13
Conor O'Dea joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Henri Atlan focusing on Part 3: Spinoza: The Spinoza Path (2005) 209 Immanent Causality: A Spinozist Viewpoint on Evolution and the Theory of Action (1998) 2112. Spi…
Charles Stivale - Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:25
Charles Stivale joined us this week to discuss the recently published Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987. Charles co-translated Deleuze's Logic of Sense and has also published Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of F…
Sigmund Freud - The Ego and the Id [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:32
This week we return to Freud and have a look at The Ego and the Id. Freud Playlist: Listen on SoundCloud Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:11
This conversation focuses on the first 2 sections of Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share Volume 1. The discussion centers on the libidinal economics of expenditure, excess, waste and their relationship to reproduction.…
Jacques Derrida - The Time of the King [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:15
This week Cooper and Taylor investigate chapter 1, The Time of the King, from Jacques Derrida's Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. The focus is on libidinal economics. Episodes referenced: -https://soundcloud.com/podcast-…
Sigmund Freud - The Economic Problem of Masochism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:51
Cooper and Taylor discuss Sigmund Freud's The Economic Problem of Masochism. Reading link: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Masochism.pdf Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry…
Sigmund Freud - Future of an Illusion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:57
Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Future of an Illusion with a heavy focus on libidinal economy. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=dc5fe063c9964a449daf8f60849cb476&utm_source=cl…