Assembling Agency
Expression, Action, and Ethics in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Bowden (0000-0002-7137-2325, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-400 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12384 |
| OpenAlex | W3087450168 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
In response to several problems identified in the primary and secondary literature, this article advances an “expressive” conception of action and agency that (i) is consistent with the metaphysics of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus , (ii) can underpin the ethical dimensions of this text, and (iii) meets some of the general requirements of a philosophy of action. This conception will be distinguished from standard theories in the philosophy of action, to the extent that these latter conceptualize and explain action with reference to intentions taken as psychological causes that are specifiable in advance and independently of the resultant activity. But it will also be distinguished from commentaries that, after rightly identifying the standard conception of intentional action as incompatible with Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysics, fail to substitute a viable conception of action and agency in its stead. In short, drawing on a notion of expression, this article will advance a conception of intentions that does not treat them as prior and independently specifiable causes of action, but rather as “immanent” causes whose intelligible content is inseparable from—that is, dynamically assembled and specified within—the ecologically and socially situated, temporally extended and reality‐transforming actions they animate
Action (physics) · Agency (philosophy) · Deleuze and Guattari · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Metaphysics · Ontology · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |