Abstract
Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan fails before the question: What does it mean? What it does is to demand a different kind of reading - to be read as a recipe. Castaneda's text denies the regime of signifcation (by eliding the question of its own authenticity), casting its readers out along a line of fight of passional apprenticeship. Through a deployment of Deleuze and Guattari's notions of regimes of sign and the refrain, I argue that The Teachings can be proftably read as both an example of insurrectionist psychedelic science and as a self-referential ecstatic pedagogy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 245-267 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Configurations |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2008 |