Doing work as a reflection of the other : notes on the educational materialism of Deleuze & Guattari

This chapter will analyze recent economic crises and the vampirism as described above, through a philosophical lens provided by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1988), and that coincides with the quote from Smitley (1933). This lens allows us to focus on the 'regimes of work' associated with the crises and their connections to education as a practice (Schatzki, 1996). Regimes of work are increasingly being sieved and processed through the mechanics of a deterritorialising, postindustrial, global capitalism. This digitized, 'machinic' influence reaches into the subjectivating heart of what it means to exist in regimes of work, how to escape if necessary, and how to formulate and sustain questions of freedom from within these regimes. This chapter will analyze such a multilayered situation using the connections to educational practice as a frame of reference, and as a way of understanding how the forces at work are organized. The pivotal text that will be used in this writing as a platform for connecting regimes of work with educational practice is A Thousand Plateaus, by Deleuze and Guattari (1988). This chapter includes understanding the immanent materialism that Deleuze and Guattari formulate through A Thousand Plateaus, and relating this to the 'regimes of work' and interconnected educational practice.