Talk:A Thousand Plateaus

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[edit] Critical work/Akira Asada

This article contains no critical work, and it should. User:WAREL wants to add a mention of Akira Asada, which may be fine, but

• it needs to be sourced--a hearsay reference to one scholar isn't encyclopedic.
• it needs context--what are the important critical reactions to Deleuze and Guattari? Is Akira Asada among them? Can that be documented?

Out of context the claim--that Akira Asada "listed this book in the ten most important books written in 20th century" is simply, as I said, a factoid. What is the significance of Asada's claim? Why is it interesting?

Asada Akira is one of the best social theorist in the world. So, I thought it would be nice to pick up his mentions.WAREL 19:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

If true, I agree. The Akira Asada article doesn't tell me much, though. Can you provide a citation? Context? · rodii · 21:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the list was made for Japanese magazine and hence written only in Japanese. The other nine books in the list is of Kafka, Bourbaki,Joyce,Rushdie,Heiddeger,Keynes,Lacan,Witgenstein,and Mao.WAREL 08:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing links

Currently War machine links to an article about a comic book superhero. Is Military industrial complex what is intended here? Or something else? Ireneshusband 06:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I made War machine a disambig page describing the general use of the term first. I'm not sure if what they mean is the 'military industrial complex'; Hardt & Negri, who were inspired by Mille Plateaux, use the term 'military-industrial system' once in Empire and state in Multitude that:

[W]e should be careful not to fall into the simplifications that often come under the label "military-industrial complex." ... The acritical reference to a "military-industrial complex" in populist terms (which sometimes smacks of anti-Semitism, recalling the old stereotypes of "Jewish bankers" as "war profiteers") has thus become a form of historical oversimplification that serves to eliminate any real considerations of class conflict, insurgency, and, today, the movements of the multitude from political and theoretical analysis of war, its causes, and its social determinations. (pp. 40–41)

Their main point is that the military-industrial complex disregards the notion of biopower, which is Foucauldian, rather than Deleuzian. Still, equating 'war machine' and 'military-industrial complex' may not be entirely accurate. Qwertyus 15:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Plateau currently links to an article dealing only with physical geography. I presume that something else would be more appropriate here too. Ireneshusband 06:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)