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The Broken Circle Breakdown is a story of love and loss. Here I develop a nomadic reading by exploring what Deleuze called the singularity of ‘A Life.’ In this schizoanalytic venture, I dwell on what is ‘hillbilly’ culture outside the city of Ghent where Bluegrass music provides a way to develop Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the ritournelle (in Thousand Plateaus). I try to problematize the usual notion of vitalism as becoming and show that ‘A Life’ refers to a ‘passive vitalism’ that cannot be controlled, its intensities capable of changing identity formations and forcing assembly changes.
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jagodzinski, j. (2019). The Schizos of The Broken Circle Breakdown. In: Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12367-3_5
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