Sociologist and Urban planner (France) who contributed to the round table 03:
Map the Imagination.
https://youtu.be/jbEuMOgq7V0
en français
Anne Querrien is a French sociologist and urban planner. Her research focuses on city and social housing policy, but also on school as a “space to be liberated,” or gender or sexual duality.
Leader of the March 22 movement in Nanterre and Paris in 1968, she was secretary general of CERFI (Centre d'Etudes, de Recherches et de Formation Institutionelles) created by Félix Guattari in the 1970s, where she became a friend of Guy Hocquenghem, among others.
She is a contributor to the journals “Annales de la recherche urbaine”, “Chimères” and “Multitudes”.
— an interview by Antoine Le Bos, Screenwriter and Artistic Director of Le Groupe Ouest, recorded at Les Champs Libres (Rennes) in December 2023 in the framework of the serie "What stories for our time?".
Anne Querrien
« Grasps a sugar cube: it takes something from reality, then we plunge it into another environment »The concept to give more taste.
A concept is like sugar tongs, it grasps a sugar cube... in the days we used sugar cubes. So, it takes something from reality, then we plunge it into another environment, made up of other elements, to create something different, to give flavour.
« The rhizome forms this way going from one to another and not from a centrality. »The rhizome to create, in network & horizontality.
The idea of a rhizome is closely related to an important aspect of psychoanalysis which is the non-hierarchical association of ideas. It’s quite close, it’s a botanical image. The rhizome is particular in that we can replicate the plant, using any part of it without needing the seed. The rhizome is the opposite of a root for those who are a bit rigid, because in fact rhizome plants also have roots.For me, it's essentially agricultural in a way. It's the fact of transplanting like we do with rice or multiplying potatoes, using the sprouts on the potato itself. The rhizome forms this way going from one to another and not from a centrality.There's the famous fable by La Fontaine, called the "The Oak and the Reed". The reed rhizome resists wind way better than the oak with its sturdy roots - the common belief. Meaning that, for example, because I'm trained in rhizomaticity.I love grass, I observe grass everywhere. And I realize that everybody, when talking about plants, at the moment only consider trees. Grass isn't a noble plant, it seems. We continue to think of plants in a hierarchical way. The oak being highly considered in Europe, is almost identified as a sovereignty.
« No teleology. Life! »Proliferation as a process of creation
Deleuzian thinking is non-sovereign thinking. Guattari, who joined forces with Deleuze at some point, was very interested in proliferation. No teleology. Life! Unlike many of our friends, who are Deleuze and Guattari followers and currently preoccupied with collapse... No, not collapse, a proliferation, which will continue, take different forms, etc.
« By closing oneself off in an existential territory we can't really create. »Deterritorialization to go beyond the existential territory
The concept I like the most, which ties into all of this, is deterritorialization. I find it absolutely fascinating. And it relates to the idea of flow. Meaning that in the world around us,
