1. Week 13 Postmodern Subjectivity

2. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. “ A Thousand Plateaus. ” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2004. 378-86.

3. A book = an assemblage = a multiplicity = a body without organs = a machine = desire ≠ ideology

4. http://tn3- 2.deviantart.com/fs6/300W/i/2005/113/f/e/The_Solipsist_by_Body_Without_Organs.png

5. The first type: the root-book = the classical book = mimesis “ The book imitates the world, the world imitates nature ” (379). = subjective organic interiority = binaries, “ the One that becomes two ”

6. http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/19720629.htm

7. The second type: the radicle-system The fascicular root A book all the more total for being fragmented The principal root has aborted, its tip has been destroyed; an immediate indefinite multiplicity of secondary roots grafts onto it and undergoes a flourishing development.... but the root ’ s unity subsists... demanding an even more comprehensive secret unity, or a more extensive totality.... (379-80) Nietzsche, James Joyce

8. http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/rp/growthstages/image56.jpg

9. http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Gilbert_Muth/art0001.jpg

10. The third type: a rhizome =subterranean stem Characteristics –1. connection –2. heterogeneity –3. multiplicity –4. asignifying rupture

11. http://www.nomadology.com/rhizome.html

12. http://www.bartleby.com/images/A4images/A4rhizom.jpg

14. http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c2/240p x-Ginger.jpg

15. http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4burrow.jpg

16. Contrary to “ a deeply rooted belief, the book is not an image of the world. It forms a rhizome with the world.... (383) Example: the Pink Panther

17. A plateau A plateau is always in the middle, not at the beginning or the end. A rhizome is made of plateaus. A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things.... The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb “ to be, ” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “ and... and... and... ” (385-86).

18. http://www.toon-en-rikkemien.nl/Waterberg%20Plateau%20Park.JPG

19. Discussion

20. Francis Bacon - Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X – 1953 http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htmhttp://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm

21. Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X

22. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bacon/selfport.jpg

23. The End