Deleuze Guattari: Societies of Control and Antipsychiatry

This is so rich with insights it looks new every time I watch it.

This is an awesome production. A thoroughly enjoyable evocation of D&G. I didn't even know how to be a person before reading their stuff.

really incredible video Jer Jae, thanks for making...

I fear this essay will be as prophetic as Marx's Capital, over a hundred years' ahead of its time. Marx predicted almost to the letter what is happening now with global late-stage capitalism and the over-financialization of society, where through debt we enslave ourselves to the contradictions of capital. It's not too late to turn things around, and we are seeing that happen with the rise of a global left movement, but this essay predicts what will happen if we fail. Pretty terrifying, especially if you consider that if we lose, capitalism will so thoroughly destroy our planet and material standards of living that cybernetic control would HAVE to be implemented to prevent 11 billion people from revolting against their masters.

Well, now I know what a computer on Valium sounds like.

This sounds very nice. I have a bigger background with deleuzes texts on other philosophers (nietzsche, bergson, spinoza, kant, etc) but am finally coming into more of the stuff he did with guattari.

Taking into consideration that you are just beginning to read Deleuze, I would recommend the Deleuze Dictionary. The entire notion of a Deleuzian dictionary is very counter intuitive but it is actually quite helpful. Deleuze never uses the same word with with the same meaning twice but the text does a fairly good job presenting the general context and the lines of flight.

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It is more difficult to realize how and to wich extent we are slaves than actually breaking free

I always found Chomsky lectures and interviews immanently useful and highly illuminating well beyond what Continental philosophers say about power, politics, etc. (Not that those deep thinkers are wrong). Chomsky gets right to what it means in plain English and without oversimplification.

Well written clear elucidation of ideas and reading of D&G. Ironic computer voice works well.

Many of us have wondered why a man writing against cyberism would use a robot to read us his paper. Many people who get knowledgeable enough to write a paper like this one, have reached their sixties or later by that point, by which point they may also have lost enough breathing function, that they cannot complete reading a sentence in a single breath, nor draw the next breath within the time that fits intelligible recitation of the text. This would be bad enough while reading the fluffiest prose, but when reading extremely advanced material like this, so-much the-worse. And also, they would have lost the part of their vocal compass any more than a tiny bit below their regular speaking pitch, adding an unacceptable vocal artifact every few syllables or so. Before the Internet, recorded speeches would have been published formally, with the budget to hire a "paid reader" to do the recitation, but with "self-publishing," a publishing "budget" is often nonexistent. Lots of people can not "recite" their own writings "intelligibly" or esthetically acceptably, into a recording microphone. This is why they would resort to, using a robotic narrator, to get the job-done "semi-decently," even realizing it's still quite "sub-ideal." Thank you.

well done. very interesting. thanks

This is astounding! Did you write this? If so, could you please provide a link to the text? I would very much like to read it.

Jack Da Rida

important video

Yes, please let me know if you need any files and want to discourse with me. I need to practice my english!

where can we see more of these videos ?

i cant believe this is seven years old

Swimming through toffee. Would love to have heard this..badly missed opportunity.