Deleuzoguattarian Thought, the New Materialisms, and (Be)wild(erring) Pedagogies: A Conversation between Chantelle Gray, Delphi Carstens, Evelien Geerts, and Aragorn Eloff

Chantelle Gray,Aragorn Eloff,Delphi Cartstens,Evelien Geerts

doi:10.1344/jnmr.v2i1.33383

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Abstract

This intra-view explores a number of productive junctions between contemporary Deleuzoguattarian and new materialist praxes via a series of questions and provocations. Productive tensions are explored via questions of epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political intra-sections as well as notions of difference, transversal contamination, ecosophical practices, diffraction, and, lastly, schizoanalysis. Various irruptions around biophilosophy, transduction, becomology, cartography, power relations, hyperobjects as events, individuation, as well as dyschronia and disorientation, take the discussion further into the wild pedagogical spaces that both praxes have in common.

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Riffing on the neologism intra-action—first introduced by Karen Barad in Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007, p. 33) and denoting “the mutual constitution of entangled agencies”—the notion of an intra-view suggests a different, queering, and more flowy take on the traditionally linear and chronological interview process. The inspiration behind this particular intra-view was a workshop on Félix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies (2000) given at the Pedagogies in the Wild: The 2019 SA Deleuze & Guattari studies conference at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in December 2019
In this intra-view, the conference organisers and workshop facilitators, Chantelle Gray (CG) and Aragorn Eloff (AE), were asked a series of introductory questions by Delphi Carstens (DC) and Evelien Geerts (EG) that explore Guattari’s ecosophical ideas in the context of his work with Gilles Deleuze and the various ways in which their ideas have been enriched via encounters with new materialist and other immanence-focused theoretical-pedagogical lines of flight
CG & AE: Deleuze and Guattari’s work, both individually and collectively is, in many ways, the most significant influence on new materialist thought, even if there is a notable lack of citation in this regard in much of the field

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Introduction

CG & AE: Deleuze and Guattari’s work, both individually and collectively is, in many ways, the most significant influence on new materialist thought, even if there is a notable lack of citation in this regard in much of the field.

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