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Dreamland Welcomes You: Last Resort

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Last Resort presents a schizoanalytic exploration that challenges the usual identity politics of ‘whiteness studies,’ exploring the various assemblages that emerge in the film where desire is thwarted. I develop the three ‘lifelines’ to follow the circuits of libidinal investments in this film through its various characters that Deleuze and Guattari maintain to be the cartographies of becoming.

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jagodzinski, j. (2019). Dreamland Welcomes You: Last Resort. 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_6

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