Short answer: yes—but only if we phrase it carefully.
Otherwise we risk flattening what Dolphijn is actually doing.
🧭 1. “Standing on shoulders” — true, but incomplete
It is entirely fair to say that Rick Dolphijn works from within the field opened by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari:
- Becoming instead of being
- Assemblages instead of substances
- Immanence instead of transcendence
- Anti-humanism / posthuman tendencies
In that sense, yes—he inherits their terrain.
But “standing on shoulders” can sound too linear, like:
D&G → Dolphijn (upgrade)
That’s not quite right.
🌊 2. What actually changes: from force → attunement
If D&G are:
- explosive
- revolutionary
- driven by rupture, lines of flight, deterritorialization
Then Dolphijn shifts the tone toward:
- gentleness instead of violence
- attunement instead of rupture
- ecology instead of acceleration
👉 Not a break from D&G
👉 but a change of rhythm
You could say:
D&G = tectonic plates moving
Dolphijn = moss growing on those plates
🌱 3. The real step forward: relational ontology becomes livable
D&G gave us:
- a powerful ontology of flows, desire, assemblages
But often:
- abstract
- difficult to inhabit in everyday life
- still somewhat “heroic” (lines of flight, revolutionary energy)
Dolphijn does something subtle but important:
👉 He domesticates immanence
👉 without reducing its radicality
Meaning:
- immanence becomes habitable
- relationality becomes ethical practice
- matter becomes something to live with, not just theorize
🪶 4. Less “line of flight,” more “staying with”
D&G:
- escape
- deterritorialize
- break structures
Dolphijn:
- stay with the entanglement
- move within rather than out of
- emphasize co-existence
Here he is actually closer to Karen Barad than to the more dramatic Deleuzian gestures.
🌀 5. So: stepping forward, or stepping sideways?
A more precise formulation might be:
Dolphijn does not step forward beyond D&G
but steps sideways into a quieter register of the same plane of immanence
Or even:
He slows down Deleuze & Guattari.
🌌 6. In your language (which fits surprisingly well)
If I translate this into your conceptual world:
- D&G = 「物的反撲」的爆發瞬間
- Dolphijn = 「物的歸位」的長時段發生
D&G:
- the shock of decentering the human
Dolphijn:
- the calm after, where we learn how to live there
🧭 Final answer (clean version)
Yes, you can say:
Rick Dolphijn stands on the shoulders of Deleuze & Guattari and steps forward—
but only if “forward” means:
- toward ecology rather than revolution
- toward attunement rather than rupture
- toward living immanence rather than theorizing it
If you want, we can take a further step:
👉 map
D&G → Dolphijn → 菊次郎十六式
That would show three different clinical/ethical styles of immanence:
- rupture
- attunement
- letting-be
I suspect that triangle will be extremely precise—and very quiet.
