Reenactment and the rhythm of thinking together

This text elaborates structural relationships between Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of thinking (in their What is Philosophy?) and the ways in which writing opens dimensions of the virtual as accounted for by Rotman. In both, virtual agents or ‘I’s mediate how thinking and imagining are understood to proceed. Deleuze and Guattari’s explanation of thinking has incorporated the cut inaugurated by writing – the cut disconnecting expressions and ideas from the situation of enunciation – and this is reflected in an understanding of thought as something a thinker finds her bearings in, rather than something originating from her. Here, as I will show, the theatrical practice of reenactment presents an image of how we find our bearings in thought.