Medieval Identity Machines |
Contents
Times Machines I | 1 |
Chevalerie | 35 |
MasochLancelotism | 78 |
The Solitude of Guthlac | 116 |
The BecomingLiquid of Margery Kempe | 154 |
On Saracen Enjoyment | 188 |
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Aliscans Anglo-Saxon England animal argues become bodily body Book of Margery Cambridge century chansons de geste Charrete Chaucer Chevalier chivalry Chrétien de Troyes Christ Christian conjoined constructed contemporary critical Crusade cultural David Deleuze and Guattari demons describes desire difference discourse embodied enjoyment episode Essays Ethiopians fantasy Félix Guattari Felix's flesh Foucault gender Gilles Deleuze gret Guenevere Guthlac heroic horse human identity machine Islam Jews Kempe's tears king knight Lancelot language likewise Literature male Margery Kempe Marie masculinity masochism masochistic Mercia Michael Middle Ages Middle English Minnesota Press monsters Muslim Mysticism narrative Old English Oxford passion perverse poem possibility postcolonial queer queer theory quotation race racial religious Rivière Robert Roland romance Saint Saracen sche sexuality signifying social structure Sultan of Babylon temporal textual Thousand Plateaus tion Trans transformed University Press Vita voice warhorse women words writes York Žižek
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Page xiv - It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections.
Page xii - Deleuze argued, is: [an] intensive way of reading, in contact with what's outside the book, as a flow meeting other flows, one machine among others, as a series of experiments for each reader in the midst of events that have nothing to do with books, as tearing the book into pieces, getting it to interact with other things, absolutely anything, . . . [this] is reading with love [une manière amoureuse].