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Becoming in the Middle

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This chapter presents and discusses some important concepts from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, which are then applied to processes of learning and teaching and the adventure of pedagogic work.

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    Deleuze does not think of individuals as clearly defined entities, but in terms of an ongoing series of processes that connect thoughts, things, sensations to the pure intensities and ideas implied by them (Williams p. 6). An individual is not a self-sufficient or self-conscious ‘I’, but a series of ongoing (conscious and unconscious) syntheses of thoughts and intensities arising in relation to whatever is confronted.

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Atkinson, D. (2018). Becoming in the Middle. In: Art, Disobedience, and Ethics. Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62639-0_7

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