ABSTRACT

What makes the story of humanity so uncertain and full of charm is that people live in two worlds, the inner and the outer, with the first being subject to transformations including assumptions, illusions, images and beliefs, based on which people shape their behaviour. People persist in this clear separation of the land from the ocean, of the island from the continent because of their

1 DELEUZE’S DESERT(?) ISLAND

As always with Deleuze, the desert island is an imaginary place, selected and intended to be isolated. The process of its selection and isolation is crucial as it revitalizes our imagination and prepares us to redefine the world by making space in constant transformation, within the forces of flow, repetition, and re-creation. In his effort to reflect on the causes of the island, the French philosopher begins with the description of the two kinds of islands-continental and oceanic-according to geographers.