This has helped me understand my discomfort with how a lot of people interpret the concept, as someone on the schizophrenia spectrum.

I think when people attempt to 'be schizo' it is often nothing more then them embodying the stereotypes of the disorder they have encountered in popular media and on the most vile nazi riddled corners of the internet (e.g. 4chan).

I personally think D+G can be read and interpreted very productively in the light of actual schizophrenia, and of related disorders (though i dislike that word) , but not by people who don't have some close relation to this disorder.

needed this video a decade ago, thank you

The Overman (Übermensch) is not merely a being without territory, he is the one who dances on the edge between chaos and form.
He is not purely deterritorialized chaos - that is madness, or pure becoming without form. Yes.
But Nor is he a static territory - that is herd, priest, reactive man.
He is a self-organizing force.
He harnesses chaos without suppressing it.
He shapes it into style, art, values - but never lets those harden into chains.
He affirms life’s terrors, the abyss, without ressentiment.

In Deleuzian terms:
The Overman is an assemblage that deterritorializes and reterritorializes creatively and consciously - never rigidly.
He is an artist of himself, an ongoing experiment.
A self perpetuating wheel.
This is the final metamorphosis of the child.

Imagine creating a thoughtful, intelligent philosophy video and the comments are whining that you pronounce things like a grown-up.

Your lectures are so interesting and well articulated. Thank you for your work, you'll make an excellent professor.

The “line of flight” part reminds me of Eric Fromm: it’s all fine and good to find “freedom from” X, but then what does one do with that newfound freedom? Find another authority to obey? One quits the job or retires, only to join a megachurch, because that’s what’s normative; one tyrant is exchanged for a next. Cite Minions.

Your videos on D&G have been so helpful as I make my way through Anti-Oedipus. I can go back through my notes and correct what I've analyzed incorrectly and then re-read!
Thank you!

You may have the least confusing videos regarding Deleuze on youtube, thank you! Have you considered a couple videos on Cinema 1 and 2?

Your channel is a gift man

You are making a great contribution to me and the world Mr. Professor Gavin Young

Thank you for your channel. I love how clear and calm you explain everything and your modesty. I hope you stay like that :)

Thank you so much for taking your time to provide such an in-depth, yet clear and concise interpretation of Deleuze. It really helped me clarify this concept in my head and to implement it in my academic work. Brilliant video!

Gilles Deleuze's concept of deterritorialization opens the door to any concept of change Left or Right and can be appropriated as such . The concept of authenticity comes up and its relationship to being 'rooted'. So yes there are levels beyond fixed identities but that involves a process of becoming within the  fundamental level of ground existence. . Expansion and contraction as interwoven.

Thank you for this enlightening lecture. It helps me to connect Deleuze & Guattari to group analysis.

love your videos! super clear explanations

Thanks in advance for this and your other videos – I'm planning to read a helping of Deleuze and Guattari as research for my next comic and I imagine this will be a HUGE help

Love the channel dude!

Important words, well delivered! Really appreciate it! Keep it going!!

Great video, really clarified things for me.

You’re not completely wrong about accelerationism but you’re not right either. In his first accelerationist text Circuitries Nick Land already differentiates between short range (what you criticize) and long range runaway circuits (what he likes). You can listen to Mark Fisher’s Anti-Vital for a good overview of his thought. I'd love to see an actual close reading of Lands early 90s texts.