Abstract

This essay moves the first steps toward an understanding of the intricate intertwining between the notion of orientation and that of Point of View (POV) across the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (and in his work with psychotherapist Felix Guattari), and revendicates their crucial role in relation to the concept of the virtual.

Highlights

  • This essay moves the first steps toward an understanding of the intricate intertwining between the notion of orientation and that of Point of View (POV) across the philosophy of Gilles

  • This essay takes the first steps towards a preliminary understanding of the entanglement between the notions of orientation and that of Point of View (POV) across the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and revendicates their crucial role in relation to the concept of the virtual

  • Despite Deleuze’s feeling concerning the impossibility of finding an answer to Alice’s question without incurring into the paradoxes of sense (Deleuze [1969] 1990), we argue that it is the impossibility of thinking orientation without disorientation that makes Alice’s question a properly Deleuzian question, and the figures of orientation and disorientation (in our jargon,orientation), one of the hidden and most powerful philosophical motor of Deleuze’s philosophy

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