(Edited version of paper presented at the Deleuze Studies Conference in Rome, July 2016.) 1.1 From ‘What is Philosophy’ to ‘Where is Non-Philosophy’? While Deleuze and Guattari’s What Is Philosophy? begins and explores the question of its title, charting the […]
The Repetition of Generic Gnostic Matrices
The present writing was drafted and read by Obsolete Capitalism on the occasion of the ninth International Conference of Deleuze Studies in Rome last July 2016 at the department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts of Roma Tre University. The
Deleuze and the Algorithm of the Revolution
Badiou’s Gauntlet, the challenge that Badiou issues to any kind of philosophy, is that the categories are three. No more than three, but also no less than three. Badiou’s Gauntlet is that there are bodies and languages, but also truths.
It has become fashionable to declare that the age of post-structuralism is at an end, and many a meditation has been proposed on our possibly living in a “post-deleuzian” epoch. Such talk seems to be situating Deleuze in a chronology
THE END OF DELEUZE IS NOT NIGH
Alexander R. Galloway: You have a new book called Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I particularly like the expression “canon of joy” that guides your investigation. Can you explain what canon of joy means and why it makes
Ending the World as We Know It: A. Galloway Interview with Andrew Culp
In dieser ersten, kurzen Besprechung des Buches „Dark Deleuze“ von Andrew Culp geht es um die Nachzeichnung der wesentlichen Argumente, die in der Einleitung vorgebracht werden. Man könnte nun sagen, Culp bemüht sich um einen Bruch mit der bisher dominanten
Andrew Culps Dark Deleuze: Anstiftung zum Widerstand
The way I think through another’s work is to write, to question, to take notes, read parallel works that pop out of my memory, cross-reference notions, ideas, propositions, diagrams, etc., and generally push a thought to its extreme limits. As
Andrew Culp: Dark Deleuze – A Short Summary
The question of the status of the plane of immanence has often been interpreted in a positive light. Namely, it is evident to the reader that ‘reaching the plane of immanence’ is portrayed as a virtue of the philosopher insofar
We Head for The Horizon and Return With Bloodshot Eyes (Brief Comments on the Plane of Immanence)
Unter Assets verstehen wir hier nicht – wie üblicherweise angenommen – Vermögen oder verwertbare Einkommen, auch nicht Anlagen in Form von Waren oder Geld, sondern ganz spezifische Formen des spekulativen Kapitals. Wir gehen in diesem Abschnitt von einer progressiven Differentation
Deleuze und das synthetische Wertpapier
CONTEXT We are living through a very interesting period in the realm of Continental Philosophy, containing aspects of continuing progress and of intellectual regression. The regression proclaims itself to be a decisive progress beyond the merely negative and critical philosophies
LARUELLE AND DELEUZE: from difference to multiplicity
