Becoming-Animal (Some Simple Ways)

Bibliographic Data

ID4762092
AuthorsGerald L Bruns (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume38
Issue4
Pages703-720
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/nlh.2008.0003
OpenAlexW1984273117
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited16

This essay is an attempt to elucidate the concept of "becoming-animal" that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari develop in a number of their writings. Basically "becoming-animal" is a movement in which a subject no longer occupies a realm of stability but rather is folded into a nomadic mode of existence in which one is always an anomaly, that is, inaccessible to any form of definition. It is a movement from body to flesh, where the one is a figure of unity and strength, while the other is in an interminable state of disarticulation or disfigurement, as in many of Francis Bacon's paintings of faceless heads. It is not animal metamorphosis but an achievement of non-identity, which for Deleuze and Guattari is the condition of freedom (for animals as well as for the rest of us, whoever we are

Aesthetics · Art · Deleuze and Guattari · Epistemology · Flesh · Identity (music · Literature · Movement (music · Realm · Simple (philosophy · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · History · Philosophy

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