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- Title
Japan as <italic>Thousand Plateaus</italic>.
- Authors
Higaki, Tatsuya
- Abstract
The concept of the ‘island’ constitutes a unique theme in Deleuze's thought: desert islands and perversion, continental islands and isolated islands, the connection between the emergence of life and orogeny, the relationship between imagination and islands (we can see these themes not only in the articles of <italic>Desert Islands</italic> and in the appendix of <italic>The Logic of Sense</italic> on Michel Tournier, but also in <italic>Difference and Repetition</italic>), and the sea as a rhizome. To think from this point of view on Japan, it is neither an isolated island nor an oceanic island in Deleuze's sense. Rather, it is a place where a unique stratum of thought has accumulated like a multilayered plateau. Japan has often been portrayed as a malignant kind of rhizome, as an oriental land, a land of animism. However, the Japanese islands, as part of the Pacific Rim island arc, and, on the other hand, as a place which bears the forces from the continent, can also be depicted as a manifold location, bearing the rhizome called the sea in a unique way. Not only does it have only a virtual signifier = <italic>signifiant</italic> of One-ness, but it can also be said to hold multiple strata of signifiers = <italic>signifiants</italic> within its arc between the continent and ocean. My aim in this paper is to explicate this place called ‘Japan’ as a case study of what Deleuze calls geophilosophy in his last book with Guattari, <italic>What is Philosophy?</italic>
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; ANIMISM; DELEUZE, Gilles, 1925-1995; PHILOSOPHERS; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Deleuze & Guattari Studies, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p240
- ISSN
2398-9777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/dlgs.2018.0306