Questions for Week 5 ★May 12th Group Discussion Session
Hello all, It would be great if you could engage the readings with these questions in mind. Again, I am not the big parent of the seminar family; I hope each of us could play the role of parent /host (updating to be continued) 1. Bogue, Ronald. (2005). “The Minor.” In Gilles Deleuze : Key Concepts , edited by Charles J. Stivale, 110–20. Durham, GB: Acumen. Why I would choose this article? ‘Minor’ would be key to understanding and analyzing political cinema (in Deleuzian sense). Although we have encountered the idea of ‘minor cinema’ last semester (in the case study of Pema Tseden’s Tibetan cinema), it would be necessary to go back to its origin with D&G’s conceptualization of Kafka (through a second-hand interpretative text though). This ‘key concept’ text also links up to other texts to be read in this session. 1) In which manner does the Kafka example fit into the ‘characteristics’ of minor literature of D&G? After exploring the basic ideas, the a...