University of Oregon

Milles Plateaux

Deleuze working out his material for Mille Plateaux in the infamously crowded and smoky cloudy classrooms of PARIS 8, VINCENNES (now in SAINT DENIS) where LYOTARD, CHATELET, GUATTARI, SCHERER, and more recently BADIEU, RANCIERE, BROSSAT and others have fleshed out their weltanschungs. PARIS 8 (VINCENNES) was a hotbed for revolutionary thought in its early years and was thus quickly moved from its "forest" location under the pretext that a "dolphin park" would be built on the same terrain...