The Smooth and the Striated.

PROCESSES OF SMOOTHING AND STRIATION OF SPACE IN URBAN WARFARE

We will read about the difference between the smooth and the striated (spaces) according to the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. We will study the use of these concepts in relation to the urban wars: the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in Paris; and to the WWI as well. 

Gilles Deleuze (/dəˈluːz/; French: [ʒil dəløz]; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus.^[2] A. W. Moore, citing Bernard Williams's criteria for a great thinker, ranks Deleuze among the "greatest philosophers".^[13]Although he once characterized himself as a "pure metaphysician",^[14] his work has influenced a variety of disciplines across philosophy and art, including literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism.^[15]

Pierre-Félix Guattari (/ɡwəˈtɑːri/; French: [ɡwataʁi] (listen) (help·info); April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist. He founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Please find the reading in the following LINK

Barricade - Paris, 1848.