Conclusions: As a Kleiner Narr in Trance. Towards a Diagrammatic Model of Enunciation

Abstract

In these pages, the ontology of mathematical entities will remain a firm benchmark of analysis. We will discuss it, however, always in view of the semiotic-linguistic issues that are the focus of this chapter. Our goal is to develop a philosophy of the diagrammatic gesture that is an indispensable tool for the scholar of languages theory. We thus aim to show that the notion of diagrammatic gesture has a great heuristic potential to illuminate some constitutive aspects of human linguistic activity. We will seek to prove it by analyzing a model of enunciation that we believe to have located within a key chapter of “A Thousand Plateaus”. In doing so, we will deal with diagrammatic gestures in a framework—that of enunciation, to be precise—that is strictly linguistic and semiotic.