Deleuze and the Face

Abstract

This article aims to analyze Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “faciality”, which is not handled in a Deleuzian sense. By saying that faces are “inhuman”, Deleuze and Guattari speak in the name of the face. In Le Visage Humain, Antonin Artaud emphasizes the fact that nothing can be known about the face. The silence of the face gives rise to question the Deleuzian way of thinking. Writing on the face is taken as walking through the surface of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. What comes out to the surface in the end is the face (in italics) that draws the non-Deleuzian line of flight.