What is the War Machine? | Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari | Keyword

Book. Shelf. Tour. (calls for group chant)

Just a thought: Have you considered using a chalkboard or whiteboard, to help guide you viewers? I think something like this could help structure the video, without having to do more in the editing process

Thanks for expanding on D&G. Truly helpful. Btw, will you be doing a review in the near future of Negarestani’s Intelligence and Spirit (please)?

I would love if you could potentially do a video for us aspiring professors like myself where you explain how you prepare notes if you use any, lecturing techniques, reading strategies, etc. Your videos are remarkably structured and follow a very logical order that I wish to replicate in my own lectures :)

Just got and just read the book yesterday. Changed my entire societal outlook in a multitude of wars and compliments my own system wonderfully. Deleuze (and Guattari) have always - to me - been portrayed as some madness beyond understanding, but honestly, it's more enjoyable and a lot more reasonable and deeper than reading most contemporary philosophers. I remember being throughoutly confused the first time reading Mind and World by McDowell while Nomadology grabbed me in right away. I would love an introduction to Thousand Plateaus and Anti Oedipus (which I've tried reading but found quite dense as an introduction to their philosophy)!

Hey, first time viewer - and since 19:53 ago a subscriber. Just wanted to say thank you for all the effort put into this channel and for your time to share. Browsing through your catalogue, virtually every video could be put on my watchlist. Once I get a real job I promise to Cryptograph you. I guess the algorithm directed me here, based on my previous searches. I started as a PhD student in 2017 with about 12 months left of working on my manuscript where I examine teleological and ontological interpretations of "desire".

David, this was extremely useful. Thank you. Is it ever evident why D&G specifically call it the "war" machine? Is it based on a kind of Hobbesian "war of all against all"? Is that the assumption they are making about nomadic societies?

My friend just shared your video saying I'd be interested in the War Machine concept. Appreciate the summary and introduction! I did have a question about your opening statements: Is it de-territorializing for de-territorializing sake? Or is it to disrupt existing organizational structures to then re-territorialize in an economic neo-colonial imperialist fashion to amass power and wealth? Same with war - is it war for war sake? Or to use the fog of and outcomes of war to change existing organizational structures to amass power and wealth? To me it seems to have an end other than the means itself (compared to say the Joker character in Batman who seems to enjoy the means as the end in itself - not really trying to be the biggest criminal or gang boss). And I understand the Joker to be a characterization of Chaos (though not completely since he took uses power to organize destructive acts). And I got a lot of Chaos v Order aspects to this review of Nomad v State and the War Machine as their change enabler - perhaps the War Machine lives at the Edge of Chaos where possibility lies (from Complexity Science and Improvisation/Interaction theories). Thanks again!

Thank you so much for this.

great! thank you sir, will contribute when i can! thank you again!

Hey there. First of all I gotta thank you for your effort. It's really hard to bring these subjects to explain them and develop the topics on a "normal" or in non-philosophical terms. I want to say that the elaboration on metalurgical formations and the association of those distributions is explained on Deleuzes classes. I read them in spanish so I'll just write the tittle and editorial of the book: "Derrames II", editorial: Cactus.

Thanks..Good explanation

Minor note: you use the term ‘pre-state people’ once, which presupposes a certain problematic progression to history. Obviously we don’t have many nomadic peoples left, given all the genocides, but there are non-state peoples around currently, and certainly D+G wouldn’t use that progressive model of history.

Is your bookshelf growing David? This was quite helpful and I'll refer back once I get deeper into D&G

Super interesting ✨✨✨

I study the history of horsemanship in depth, and this is interesting, esp if we think of ancient nomadic horse peoples and what that brought to human experience

so good thank you

I love you

13:40 I find this kind of strange given the existence of anumeric languages (e.g. Pirahã) but maybe D&G’s point is that most/many stateless/nomadic societies have access to numbers rather than that they all necessarily do

Helpful introduction to the concept. Thank you.