Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is notoriously difficult. It is arguably the most difficult of Deleuze’s writings (though I’d put my money on The Fold). In this post I’ve attempted to provide an outline of the introduction of the text, titled “Repetition and Difference.” […]
Difference and Repetition: Introduction, Repetition and Difference
Corry Shores and Meli̇ke Başak Yalçın 0 Introduction Shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze discovered a new kind of music: glitch, in particular, Oval’s Systemisch. [Achim] Szepanski contacted Deleuze himself, sending material by Oval and other Mille Plateaux artists, and
From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze
If one does not read Deleuze exclusively in the context of a position critical of reason, which is commonly paraphrased as transcendental empiricism (cf. Rölli 2003), nor as a proponent of an ontological realism (cf. De Landa 2006), then Deleuze
The Problem of The “Problem” – On Deleuze (and Althusser)
Process Ontology and Becoming The historical precursors of the philosophy of motion have also had a major influence on a number of contemporary process ontologies, or ontologies of becoming. Process ontology, like the ontology of movement, emphasizes flux and becoming
What is the difference between process philosophy and the philosophy of movement?
What Is To Be Done With Philosophy?François LaruelleIn Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cerf, 2018), p.46-54. How does philosophy intend to save itself if it is no longer to conserve itself under the form of traditions that are sometimes denounced as
“What Is To Be Done With Philosophy?” from Tétralogos (2018)
Can exchange cause change? If Deleuze’s thesis on difference and repetition applies to economic transactions, we have reason to believe it can. But how? Is not to ask whether exchange can cause change another way of asking whether the repetition of
Can Exchange Cause Change? Part I. Mathematical Derivation
The 4th manifesto (see PDF on webpage for “Life is Good” show at Galleria Federico Vavassori http://federicovavassori.com/content/2-exhibitions/10-life-is-good/eric-schmid-4th-manifesto-the-zeroth-and-final-manifesto.pdf) is a roadmap to the Occult. It walks through different thoughts and perspectives because of a pluralism. We all have the same God.
NOTE: What follows are a set of incomplete notes drafted in the lead up to the Quiver Reading Group organized around the theme of ‘new weapons for thought’, and whose first meeting will read Deleuze and Foucault’s ‘Intellectuals & Power’
In light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large part, I’m responding to my friend Jeremy R. Smith’s recent post which he asked me to do. For anyone interested in learning more
Social subjection, however, is only one form, strategy and method of constituting the modern subject. Let us therefore turn to the second important form of subjectivation, the individual. Deleuze/Guattari call this process, which is different from social subjection, and which
Deleuze: The Machinic Enslavement and the Dividual in Control Societies
First published in Coils of The Serpent: ISSUE 6 (2020): CONTROL SOCIETIES II: PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, ECONOMY In his discussion of the transition from the cinema of the movement-image to the cinema of the time-image, Deleuze famously makes way for the
Zones on Trauma: On Deleuze and Control
taken from Strelka Mag Moving beyond the limits of assemblage theory, thinking of the Anthropocene as a system that can be observed and studied, can help us discover new political horizons—concrete solutions to the challenges of our time. Debates over
Challenging the Assemblage Dictum of the (Post-)Anthropocene