McClure, Bruce David (2001) Between the seen and the said : Deleuze-Guattari's pragmatics of the order-word. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis investigates Deleuze-Guattari's notion of stratification through
a series of investigations into their material on language. Stratification is
their term for the process by which matter-energy comes to assume the
relatively stable historical formations of our social world, and in particular
the relationship between subjects, objects and words. The complex
notion of the order-word/password is proposed as key to this process,
with its role in the articulations of the strata (as order-word) and in
movements of creation and escape (as password). I explore this
apparatus from a variety of angles, in order to present an account of
Deleuze-Guattari's pragmatics that demonstrates both its basis in
philosophy and its connections with the world.
I begin by introducing the notion of 'difference in itself', through
Deleuze/Deleuze-Guattari's critique of representation and their account
of subjectification, the creation of the subject in space and time (in
relation to Bergson and Kant) - and then feed this material through an
encounter with Judge Schreber, in the process filling out our account of
the subject. The resulting diagram of stratification is further explored
through a dialogue with two other key thinkers of language -
Wittgenstein, in relation to his social conception of meaning as use, and
Derrida, in relation to his critique of Austin and Searle's Speech Act
theory - in either case, demonstrating important connections and
contrasts with Deleuze-Guattari. I then examine the specifics of
stratoanalysis through an examination of the related zones of the formal,
the abstract and the incorporeal, bringing this to bear on Deleuze-
Guattari's appropriation of the linguist Hjelmslev, and to the criticisms of
Ruthrof. The final step is to relate this apparatus both to linguistic and
everyday understandings of language, connecting this pragmatics of the
order-word with the notion of an 'art of living' through a consideration of
standardised language and 'verbal hygiene'.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation, Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation, Pragmatics
Official Date:	January 2001
Dates:	Date Event January 2001 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Philosophy
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Extent:	218 leaves
Language:	eng

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