Deleuze e Guattari: modos de existir

Abstract

This research explores the concept of modes of existence through notions developed by Deleuze and Guattari. Its point of departure lies in experience and thought when they are overturned and forced, thereby giving rise to modes of thinking and feeling that are not properly aligned with certain orthodox and dogmatic notions concerning the functions of thought and bodies in contemporary times. In a second moment, the notions of experience and thought are developed side by side with the concept of schizophrenia, in order to outline a plane of composition for investigating what are considered “normal” and “unusual” ways of thinking and feeling. Modes of existence are addressed more directly in a third moment of the text, in which the notions of thought and experience are coupled so as to question what is capable of forcing thought to create ways of existing. This work is populated by various figures, traversing different fields of experimentation and tracing lines of flight through modernist literature and art, engaging with authors such as Borges and Oiticica, thought within a Deleuzian–Guattarian plane of composition. The conclusion adopts a perspectivist composition that couples the task of repopulating the world with the exercise of creating modes of existence.