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Date sent: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:40:20 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From: Mick Drake <[log in to unmask]>
In A Thousand Plateaus (Athlone Press, 1988) Deleuze and
Guattari used Dumezil's analysis of the duality of
political sovereignty in the forms of magician-king and
jurist-priest in Indo-european mythology, as a sort of
springboard for radical thinking about the state,
especially in Ch 13 (7000 BC: Apparatus of Capture).
I'm interested in their relation to medieval historians
like Jacques Le Goff, and the popular (but apparently not
very rigorously developed) idea that post-modernity is a
New Middle Ages (any suggestions for further reading from
the list would be welcome). Dumezil would probably be a
common figure for that generation of French post-humanist
intellectuals. I don't know anything about his own
politics, though Deleuze and Guattari's use of his work
suggests somewhere on the radical left.
Mick Drake
UEA
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