Madness as methodology as performance

The rhythms of territorialisation that Deleuze and Guattari (1987) descriptively invoke when they talk of the play between 'striated and smooth space' is both creative in and of space at the same time and consequently, in similar ways, there will also be some play between acts of conceptualisation and contextualisation. Sense can further be made of madness as methodology as performance through engaging with language in the ways in which Deleuze himself talks about reading a book. Engagements of this kind with madness as methodology as performance will also enable a return to some of the earlier themes and practices of the book and will encourage diffractions that will raise questions about what work do practices of concept forming and plugging in actively achieve in taking research and inquiry forward in positive ways. Madness as methodology as performance distinguishes itself from more obviously mimetic and dramatic forms of performance through its concerns the politics of affect.