Deleuze, Guattari & creativity

Constructed nature of social reality
Creativity goes toward generative force
Contrasting 'Rhizomatic' with traditional 'tree-like' thought
Concepts of 'the visual' and 'the actual'

Faris May- 1970s & 80s philosopher and psychologist
In relation to student and worker protests, social change was being rethought.

Can be ongoing- doesn't have to be just one huge act of revolt.  

Doesn't always work, i.e. Paris student and worker protest.
 

Traditional thought - Tree-like
The lines of argument branch out from one central point that is the trunk.

Alternate structure of thought  

Rhizomatic.
Favours creativity / /

Rhizo from the plantform-like tree.
Rhizos are like wall climbing plants
i.e. ginger.  Grows underground and pushes up shoots. 

Produced ideas between users of a given language system

Dog / / log - by changing single letters in a word you can completely change it's meaning

Insight into the nature by which meaning is constructed between different language systems. 
/ / We need to embrace our connection with the reality surrounding us. Rhizos shape new ways of thinking / / practicing.

Isa Genzken  

Hospital (Ground zero) 2008
Things appear put together provisionally
Suggests the possibility of architectural construction that can be reconstructed.

Manipulative tool.

Home not necessarily a house

Places and language and how the two together can be meaningful

Graduation -
Given a diploma: "here's your diploma"
Statement underpinned with prepositions of what people are expected to do in these situation.

under currents in this statement of duty, get a job... well done, congratulations.

All about statements that enact their meaning:

"I DO"

"hoody" - person wearing a hood up. some kind of criminal tendencies.
History of assumptions surrounding 'hoodies'Tabloid press manipulates the reader into changing the way they feel about them constantly.
However, status of military is generally fixed.  Brings up some interesting questions.

Research further into this. 

/ / Subjectivation. 
Sense of self/identity is not given, it is always under construction.

How we as individuals are shaped by society

Schizo analysis 
Our psyche is shaped by our relationship to our parents growing up.

Freud is a tree-like thinker
psycho analysis is a practice aswell as a theory

set notion of who a person is
Through role play and discussion and suggestion etc therapists aim to reconfigure who that person is. 

Schizophrenia
The process of breakdown is the possibility for change and rehabilitation
- The unconscious is a factory that continually produces and constructs.
'Planting a tree in the mind of the individual.'

Socially constructed assemblages
i.e. psychological assemblages

Body without organs
De-territorialising from identity

Everything changes.
- Change in the term 'banker' and what it connotes to us
The Western thought is pre-occupied by identity
Difference for Deleuze and Guattari precedes identity
Even mountains are considered constructions

'real' is the relation between the thing itself and all its constituent parts
synthesis of change and perminance
Any object us a contingent construction