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
I just spoke yesterday yesterday at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of “control societies” and „ontologies of difference,“ two themes that have interested me a great deal over the years. In fact I have been so struck by Deleuze’s essay …
Part II. Three Models of Economy in Chapter 1 There are, according to D&G, as outlined in Chapter 1, three conceptually-distinct but ontologically-interwoven models for the composition of the assemblage of an object. For our purposes, we have said we …
The tale of the circle, the dot, and the arrow — a moral tale — tells the story of a dominant way of thinking about people in the world. The most common preconceptions about epistemology and ontology are contained in …
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 …