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Marc Ngui | Drawing - Art. Pen and ink, marker and crayon on paper. Marc has begun to take commissions to re-draw any of the images in this series. All drawings will be completed with sakura pigment ink gel pens and Windsor Newton watercolour on acid free paper. The drawings are 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm). The number of re-drawings for each original image in the series will be limited to 5. Each commissioned piece will be numbered and signed. For prices, shipping, and placing orders, please visit the Happy Sleepy Art and Toy Shop on Etsy or send a message on the contact page.

If you have purchased a drawing on Etsy select your choice of images from any on the page. The drawings below are a methodical interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia (Wikipedia link) by Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987. The drawings were created as a means of understanding the ideas being presented in the book. back to top.

Meier_ab.pdf (application/pdf Object) J a n u a r k u r s u s. Diagrammatology. …the operation of the diagram, its function, as Bacon says, is to “suggest.” (Deleuze, 1993: 194) ‘Deconstruction,’ Jacques Derrida writes, ‘is inventive or it is nothing at all; it does not settle for methodical procedures, it opens up a passageway, it marches ahead and marks a trail’ (Derrida, 1989:42). Within architectural theory, at least, this deceptively simple message appears to have been forgotten (if it was ever fully heeded). An act of amnesia hastened, it would seem, at the 1992 Anywhere conference in Yufuin, Japan. Drawing together Derrida’s interest in grammatology and the inventive, and contemporary architectural interest in diagrams, this paper proposes the notion of “diagrammatology.”2 Diagrammatology is understood here as a generative process: a ‘metaphor’ or way of thinking - diagrammatic, diagrammatological thinking - which, in turn, is linked to poetic thinking.

Choral Work Source: Bennington and Derrida, 1993: 406. As for explanatory interpretation, Derrida adds: Joke: