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Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Translations vi vii viii Introduction: Deleuze, Beckett, Meme Combat 1 1 The Problem of Language 8 Interlude 1 Images of Trains, Trains of Images- Dickens, Deleuze, Representation 41 2 'Linguistics has done a lot of harm' 62 3 Events, Sense and the Genesis of Language 99 Interlude 2 Making Sense of Literature- Joyce, cummings, Woolf 132 4 Another Philosophy of Language: the New Pragmatics 154 5 Another Philosophy of Language: Machines, Assemblages, Minority 174 Interlude 3 A Reading of Kipling's 'Wireless' 202 6 Another Philosophy of Language: Style and Stuttering 218 Conclusion 24 7 Notes 258 Index 271 v
List of Figures 1 Correlation 56 2 Signifying semiotics 82 3 Semiotic square of communication 149 4 Style 245 5 Ambivalence towards language 254 6 Stitching point 257 7 Deleuzean reading 257 vi
Acknowledgements I would like to thank the University of Cardiff, and in particular Catherine Belsey and David Skilton, for giving me the time to research and write this book; Denise Riley, that paragon among editors; Emmanuelle Guattari, for the conversations that convinced me her father wasn't second best; Daniel Haines, who lent me books, and all the members of the Cardiff seminar, for their patience; Noelle Batt and the Paris VIII seminar, for lending an indulgent ear to my Deleuzean disquisitions. Part of Chapter 6 appeared in a slightly different version in L'Esprit m?ateur (Winter 1998) vol. xxxvm: 4. I would like to thank Anne Tomiche for permission to reprint. }EAN-}ACQUES LECERCLE vii
List of Translations All references to works by Deleuze and Guattari are to the first French editions. However, I have provided page references to the English editions, whenever possible. The English editions are listed below in the order in which the books first appeared in French. Proust et les signes Le Bergsonisme Difference et repetition Logique du sens L'Anti-C dipe Kafka Dialogues Mille plateaux Cinema 2: L'Image-temps Foucault Le Pli Pourparlers Proust and signs, trans. R. Howard (New York: George Braziller, 1972). Bergsonism, trans. H. Tomlinson and B. Habberjam (New York: Zone Books, 1988). Difference and Repetition, trans. H. Patton (London: Athlone, 1994). The Logic of Sense, trans. M. Lester and C. Stivale (London: Athlone, 1990). Anti-Oedipus, trans. R. Hurley, M. Seem and H. R. Lane (London: Athlone, 1984). Kafka, trans. D. Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986). Dialogues, trans. H. Tomlinson and B. Habberjam (London: Athlone, 1987). A Thousand Plateaus, trans. B. Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987). Cinema 2: The Time-Image, trans. H. Tomlinson and R. Gulta (London: Athlone, 1989). Foucault, trans. S. Hand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988). The Fold, trans. T. Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). Negotiations, 1972-1990, trans. M. Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). viii
List of Translations ix Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? Critique et clinique What is Philosophy?, trans. H. Tomlinson and G. Burchell (London: Verso, 1994). Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. D. W. Smith and M. A. Greco (London: Verso, 1998).