Oriental figures in A Thousand Plateaus and What Is Philosophy?: from I Ching and the Chinese painter-poet to the thinking through figures and the becoming-imperceptible

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  • Matías Soich CONICET – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Argentina

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i2.1113

Keywords:

Orient; China; Deleuze; Guattari; Becoming

Abstract

This paper develops some «figures from the Orient» that appear in Deleuze and Guattari’s work: firstly, the hexagrams from the Book of Changes, as a limit case in the distinctions between thinking through figures and thinking through concepts, and between wisdom and philosophy; secondly, the «typically» oriental and occidental landscapes that populate A Thousand Plateaus and What Is Philosophy?; and lastly, the Chinese painter–poet as achiever of a becoming–imperceptible. The aim is to explore the conceptual resonances between these authors’ philosophy and oriental thought, especially regarding the articulation between ontology and ethics.

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  • Matías Soich, CONICET – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    CONICET – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires

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2013-04-19

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Soich, M. (2013). Oriental figures in A Thousand Plateaus and What Is Philosophy?: from I Ching and the Chinese painter-poet to the thinking through figures and the becoming-imperceptible. Contrastes. Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i2.1113