This dissertation, "The Thought Without Image of Deleuze and Guattari" by Pui-wah, June, Lam, 林佩華, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of Thesis entitled The Thought without Image of Deleuze and Guattari submitted by June LAM Pui-wah for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in December 2006 This thesis examines the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari through exploring a problematic notion 'thought without image' in their philosophy. First, 'thought without image' is defined negatively as what it is not - it is not the traditional image of thought found for example in the Platonic objective image, the Kantian subjective image, and the phenomenological and dialectical intersubjective image. Then, a positive definition is given: 'thought without image' is the way of thinking that abandons the idea of absolute truth that tries to represent the world by a totalizing image; it is an incapacity of thought that goes against the natural way of thinking; it is a 'stammered' thought. Deleuze and Guattari identify philosophy, science and art as three major forms of thought and in examining the way in which they construct philosophy, two principle ilogics are found: the logic of double betrayal and fractal logic. In their philosophical construction, new concepts are created by the double betrayal of their old concepts. A new concept would never repeat the dominant images or dimensions of the old ones, but is constructed by the amplification of the minor and common dimension between them. This in-between dimension is the fractal dimension which never settles down on any of the old dimensions, but grows between them. Thought is without image since it never settles down on a fixed Image or Dimension (e.g. the Dimension of an absolute concept which totalizes a system of thought with the same Image). Or, thought has many images that it grows in n-1 dimensions (n dimensions minus the unique and totalizing Dimension). The ontology behind thought without image shows its affiliation to complexity theory and the concept of the multiverse in modern science, which in turn is a case of thought without image. Complexity theory is without a fixed image since it studies the complexity of nature instead of reducing it to a totalizing theory or Image. The concept of the multiverse is without an Image since it affirms all possible universes with incompatible images instead of a unique one. In art, time-image in modern cinema is without an Image since it excludes the conventional and pre-established Image produced by the sensory-motor schemata, and includes images that show the time of the multiverse (Aion) that forks from one incompatible image/ world/ universe to another. Pantonal music in modern music is without an Image since it does not have a fixed tonal center (the ideal Image) but many tonics that construct incompatible tonal worlds of the same piece of music on the mind of the audience. iiIn short, thought without Image is thought without fixities or imperatives. It is a thought which constantly changes even to the point where different ideas become incompossible (incompatible) to each other but are connected by lines of thought that metamorphose. It is exactly this metamorphosing and incompossible nature which constitutes the newness of the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari. (485 words) iii DOI: 10.5353/th_b3692353 Subjects: Subjectivity Philosophy