Brophy, Deligny, and Guattari: the Avant-Garde as Subsumption and Stratification

• Thesis title in Czech: Brophy, Deligny a Guattari: Avantgarda coby začleňování a rozvrstvování
• Thesis title in English: Brophy, Deligny, and Guattari: the Avant-Garde as Subsumption and Stratification
• Key words: Avant-Garde|Začlenování|Rozvrstování|Brigid Brophy|Fernand Deligny|Felix Guattari
• English key words: Transversality|Subsumption|Stratification|Avant-Garde|Brigid Brophy|Fernand Deligny|Felix Guattari
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2018/2019
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Supervisor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 05.06.2019
• Date of assignment: 05.06.2019
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 17.07.2019
• Date and time of defence: 09.09.2021 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 12.08.2021
• Date of proceeded defence: 09.09.2021
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The thesis aims at considering Felix Guattati’s The Machinic Unconscious (1979), Brigid Brophy’s In Transit (1969) and Fernand Deligny’s The Arachnean and Other Texts (1970s) as the avant-garde practices foregrounding the fact that the avant-garde’s ‘subversion’ syntax and ‘shock-value’ have long become appropriated. Therefore, the term ‘subsumption’ as an alternative to ‘subversion’ and ‘resistance’ will be suggested to reflect Guattari’s ‘machinic’ flows and stratified nature of experience. Because both form the strata of artistic products as subsumed heterogeneous phylum of ‘machinic production’, they provide for manipulation of the avant-garde’s own origins and sources. By looking at novelty and uniqueness as the features of on-going stratification within the avant-garde, it will be argued that the former allows novelty and uniqueness to acquire the nature of quantitative indices akin to Guattari’s ‘material assemblages, biological assemblages, social assemblages,’ and ‘heterogeneous complex universes’. The proposed thesis is expected to consist of three parts. To begin with, it aims at looking at Brigid Brophy’s In Transit as the literary avant-gardist praxis in the light of the dynamics of subsumption and stratification as outlined in The Machinic Unconscious. Against the latter, the second part of the thesis aims at the analysis of Deligny’s text in the context of his clinical practice of special education. Based on Brophy’s, Deligny’s and Guattari’s projects, the final part of the thesis aims at suggesting generalizations regarding the status of the avant-garde as the praxis.

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