ISSN 2398-9777
7 papers in the library · 8 citations · publishing 2020-2026
Deleuze and Guattari Studies August 1, 2026 Catarina Pombo Nabais
This article examines fabulation as a political practice, exploring its role in dismantling clichés and generating new possibilities for life. It draws a cosmic politics from Deleuze and Guattari's theory of literature and their metaphysics of dreams, more specifically, from the distinction between fiction and fabulation, and the role of the insomniac dream as the vision and audition of a...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies November 1, 2023 Erica Biolchini
This article proposes a different aesthetic state of Gilles Deleuze’s crystal-image defined as ‘psychedelic crystal’, a formation of the crystalline regime in light of the contemporary revival of scientific research exploring the healing potentialities of hallucinogenic drugs. The proposition of the psychedelic crystal occurs between Deleuze’s crystals of time, the therapeutic dimension of...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies November 1, 2023 Daan F. Oostveen
We are currently living through a period of ‘psychedelic renaissance’, with an increased interest, both in clinical research and in society at large, in the use of psychedelic substances such as LSD, psylocybin, DMT and mescaline. This interest, however, has recently led to an increased influx of venture capital and a fast emerging psychedelic start-up ecosystem. In this article, I will discuss...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies October 27, 2023 Patricia Kubala 6 citations
This paper argues that practitioners of psychedelic-assisted therapy could learn a great deal from Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of psychoanalysis in Anti-Oedipus, as well as the practice of materialist psychiatry – schizoanalysis – that they offer in its stead. Much of the clinical research on psychedelics (particularly psilocybin) over the past fifteen years has privileged mystical...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies October 27, 2023 Amir Vudka 1 citation
The films and live cinema of Vincent Moon are considered in this chapter as ‘psychedelic’: a form of filmmaking and film performances that can open the doors of perception to invisible realms of percepts, affects and durations that are beyond or below ordinary human perception. According to Paul Schrader, films can evoke such spiritual dimensions, in particular through what he called the...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies October 27, 2023 Patricia Pisters 1 citation
This article focuses on the aesthetics of the psychedelic experience. Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception remains one of the few studies that investigates the aesthetic dimension of the psychedelic experience as profoundly meaningful as such, because it gives direct attention to the nonhuman otherness of the universe that is hard to describe in words, but that can be felt and sensed. Similarly,...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies April 24, 2020 Janae Sholtz
This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regulation and abstention, Bataille and Deleuze advocate training the self towards intensification of...