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In this chapter the author offers a schizoanalytic reading of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy which involves a conceptual discussion of the close affinity between Atwood’s notion of ustopia and immanent dystopia, a productive encounter between the opposite forces of the capitalist axiomatic and the possibility of creating revolutionary moments out of this encounter. In defining and describing this productive encounter and its consequences, the author also provides textual evidence, which simultaneously testifies to the correlations between the clinical and critical approach, and the schizoanalysis discussed in the previous chapters.
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It is important and necessary to recognise the difficulty of Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of time. Every attempt to translate and articulate it would be reductive of its depth, which extends to a great variety of works including A Thousand Plateaus, Difference and Repetition, Logic of Sense, Bergsonism and Nietzsche and Philosophy. The third synthesis of time, just like the other two, for instance, inholds several different ideas and processes such as caesura, eternal return, event and seriation, which Deleuze and Guattari conceptualise with references primarily to Bergson and Nietzsche. Therefore, a complete view of their understanding of time would be too big a subject to fit into the limits of this chapter. That is why, I choose to interpret it in simpler terms.
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Çokay Nebioğlu, R. (2020). The Roads to Immanent Dystopia: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy. In: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Dystopia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43145-7_7
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