This research tries to seek a possibility that micropolitics of Deleuze and Guattari will be embodied into an expressional pragmatics, and miropolitics will be connected to ethics. It tries to seek a possibility of authentic democracy in contemporary ...
This research tries to seek a possibility that micropolitics of Deleuze and Guattari will be embodied into an expressional pragmatics, and miropolitics will be connected to ethics. It tries to seek a possibility of authentic democracy in contemporary society. Democracy will be treated in the context of micropolitics, rather than macropolitics in contemporary society. It is Deleuze and Guattari who insist on micropolitics, and they are representative contemporary philosopher. Deleuze and Guattari criticize a limit of 'conversion and revolution' in marxism, and instead they suggest micropolitics. Deleuze and Guattari search for a posssibility of subversion and revolution traditional order through segmentarity and line of flight, and they pursue micropolitics. The concrete project in our daily life and micro life is Deleluze and Guattari's pragmatics. Because language is a problem of 'politics', rather than a problem of linguistics. In a view of Deleuze and Guattari, a new linguistics for new micropolitics and social change has to be basic presupposition, and language is basically a place of continuous mutation, heterogeneous stream, and singularity of style. But Saussure and Chomsky of structual lingusticians excluded the situation except universal grammar of language, for example, body, acting, speech-act, and they fixed mutation and stream of language. On the contrary, Deleuze and Guattari accepted the 'pragmatics' of Austin, and they received the theory of linguistics of content and expression in Hjelmsleve.
The schizoanalysis-pragmatics in Deleuze and Guattari is focused on the body mutation, acting through the force of 'expression' of linguistics in A thousand plateaus, and will be actualized into 'expressional pragmatics'. That reasons are three. First, Deleuze and Guattari assert 'collective assemblage of enunciation' in pragmatics. Instead of subject of enunciation, they assert only the 'effect' of locutionary act of subjectivity and the 'redundancy of enunciation'. Therefore they emphasize the inevitably social nature of enunciation. Speech-act always exercises force, and it is order-word of social act, slogan, and sign of power. Second, Deleluze and Guattari go back to the expressional theory in Stoicism, in order to explain a real meaning of collective assemblage of enunciation, that is, to explain the cause-effect relation of order-word in language and redundancy of enunciation. At this point, this research tries to explain that the expressional theory in Stoicism can be logic of expression, that is, the demension of meaning and body, or not, and logic of expression can be collective assemblage of enunciation, or not. Third, it is the problem of materiality of language and the problem of the possibility of pragmatics of expressional materialism. Accepting 'matter' of concept in Hjelmsleve, Deleuze considers the 'language' as 'stream' and 'machinic organism'. Of course, the issue does not clearly appear in A thousand plateaus. Merely, Deleuze and Guattari detect the trait of materiality of language, and catch the stream, mutation, change. Also language will be body, system, speech-act, that is, feature of collective assemblage of enunciation. Ultimately in this research Deleuze and Guattari's micropolitics will be realized into the concrete method by expressional pragmatics. In order to use the connected form in our real life, micropolitics will be the real concrete form. It seems to have particular meaning in this research, when the micropolitics of Deleuze and Guattari has a characteristic of special ethics through the expressional pragmatics.