Three Ways of Speaking: Deleuze's Way, or Death and Flight

E-ISSN： 1755-1684|10|1|70-84

ISSN： 1755-1684

Source： Deleuze Studies, Vol.10, Iss.1, 2016-02, pp. : 70-84

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Abstract

In this essay, I examine the Postulates of Linguistics chapter of A Thousand Plateaus. In regard to this chapter, I aim to demonstrate something that has remained unrecognised about minor language in Deleuze and Guattari. I aim to show not only the characteristics of Deleuzian speaking in tongues (glossolalia) that overlap with Foucaultian speaking-freely (parrsia) and with Derridean speaking-distantly (teleiopoesis), but also and more importantly, I hope to show how it is possible for us to make a language speak in tongues. Derrida's way of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states a self-contradiction, which thereby makes the enunciation imply more than it says. Foucault's way of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states the truth directly and loudly, which thereby makes the enunciation do more than it says. And finally, Deleuze (and Guattari's) way of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states a command abstracted from its context, which thereby makes the enunciation proliferate. All three ways of speaking are made not for the benefit of the speaker, but in favour of others. And perhaps this speaking in favour of (au profit de) others will allow us to come to understand the true meaning of the phrase capitalism and schizophrenia.