Deleuze's Abecedary: 'A For Animal' (English Subtitles)

''A for Animal'', the first part of the eight-hour series of interviews ''L'abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze'', filmed by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989.

(English Subs).

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• Gilles
• Deleuze
• Abecedary
• Animal
• Anti-Oedipus
• Thousand
• Plateaus
• English
• Subtitles

[Mauser91]

Any new translations coming up?

[Eidos84]

@Mauser91 Charles Stivale has just released an excellent subtitled translation of the entire 'Abecedaire'. It is far better than anything I could do!

[jamalmorelli]

The first with subtitles that I've ever seen... brilliant! Thanks...!

[Eidos84]

@jamalmorelli Added the subtitles myself on this one. Could only get a transcript for the first part 'A'. If anyone can forward me transcriptions (English or French) I will gladly add subtitles for the rest.

[timothyenilsen]

@Eidos84 I found .srt subtitle files (Google search should do the trick) that could most likely be applied to the video. I don't know if that helps.

[Eidos84]

@timothyenilsen Have come across different srt files for it alright, but the translations are awful and the timing totally out of sync. Will be getting to work on it anyway asap. thanks for the help my friend, much appreciated

[tculbert100]

it is unfortunate but i think these interviews show a weakening, uninteresting Deleuze who comes off as self-absorbed and pretentious (all too "French"): Someone who talks at length about nothing of any importance... By no means is this the grand and mighty Deleuze, the philosopher of vitalism, difference and repetition... Don't let this video fool you: There is much to be learned with Deleuze; it just isn't here in these videos....

[ashburnhouse]

@tculbert100 What are you talking about? Most of his writing is manifest nonsense. He is laconic and lucid in the DVD (I've seen and studied the whole thing), as well as his writing.

[rhalefe]

HE says : Barking seems to me the shame of the animal kingdom instead of ''the most stupid cry ever'' wich is much more funny !

[imgonnaletyoutellit]

I hope the rest shows up someday.

[ecopsychoanalysis]

Deleuze and the animal can help us think through a psychoanalysis of what Guattari called the three ecologies (of mind, society, and nature). This is a crucial task as we stand facing the environmental crisis. We need a psychoanalysis of climate change and the ecological unconscious, and Deleuze|Guattari and complexity/chaos theory allow a nonlinear interweaving/intermeshing of the three ecologies. See my book: 'Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos' (Dodds 2011, Routledge)

[tculbert100]

@costa020 i don't know. i think i get what he is up to in these interviews, but I am concerned it comes off as too caricatured. I agree that the conceptual architecture in Anti-Oedipus and 1000 plateaus is very difficult to get a handle on - but the best introduction to Deleuze is definitely the early monographs of Nietzsche, Hume and Spinoza... the Deleuze here seems too meandering, too concerned with "deterritorializing" his subject matter to be taken seriously for the uninitiated

[costa020]

@tculbert100 I agree there is a touch of self-indulgence in it. He could probably have avoided cutting across the interviewer. But in my humble opinion this is far less perambulatory than many of his writings. It seems quite a nice introduction and it's very rare you get to see an established philosopher's thought in action like this.

[theseblueirides]

@Eidos84 Do you have a link? I cant find it.

[JosephKnight93]

Thank you so much! If I can find time I will work on parts C-Z.