ABSTRACT

Deleuze and Guattari's (1986) writing on minor literatures, which has its most detailed account in Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, is of central importance to the conceptualisation of and arguments for the madness as methodology. In writing Writing Shame, Elspeth Probyn talks of the shame involved 'in being highly interested in something and unable to convey it to others, to evoke the same degree of interest in them and to convince them that it is warranted'. When speaking of immanence, Deleuze and Guattari often referred to the fluid possibilities and transmutational becoming of consistency, where striations have been smoothed and where constitutive divisions have been dissolved and eradicated. In introducing the reader to the rhizome in the opening plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari stress that [a] rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organisations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences and social struggles.