Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation
by Matt Bluemink To think the question of individuality is to take a step back through the history of philosophy. Throughout every philosophical epoch, thinkers have been concerned with the […]
Category Archives: Deleuze
Affect & Vulnerability: Spinoza & Deleuze on Negativity
The lecture below responds to criticisms that Spinoza cannot account for vulnerability since he does not have a strong enough conception of negativity that could account for loss and mourning. […]
Into a Silent Universe
“The world is increasingly unthinkable – a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, tectonic shifts, strange weather, oil-drenched seascapes, and the furtive, always-looming threat of extinction.” – Eugene Thacker (2011) […]
Dispersed Vectors 1
For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]
allergic to complicity
Andrew Culp thinks D&G would be anti-accelerationists (especially re: capitalism), and against assisting the opposition in any way. Perverts take notice: Deleuze and Guattari are less used than abused in the […]
Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
Mad Speculations of Becoming
The question remains one of how exactly the hallucinatory activity of cognition can best adapt to the black chaotic assemblages of contemporary forces. Excerpts from Ben Woodard’s “Mad Speculation and […]
To Destitute The World?
“there are worlds to be made, forms of life made to grow apart from what reigns, including by salvaging what can be salvaged from the present state of things, and on the other, there is the imperative to attack, to simply destroy the world of capital.”
The Use and Abuse of Models
In response to recent pushback on patchwork theory Xenogothic asks the following questions: perhaps the problem here is the very thinking of patchwork as a model in the first place… […]
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism
From Transcendental Empiricism to Worker Nomadism: William James by David Lapoujade William James calls himself a radical empiricist. His philosophy is not, as it is widely believed, pragmatism, but rather […]
Manuel DeLanda | A Comparison of Deleuze’s Assemblage Theory and the New Materialist Approach
Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory […]
An Introduction to the Cybernetic Science Non-Fiction of Contemporary Geopolitics \ Mohammad Salemy
Mohammad Salemy: This text is an experiment with a speculative form which is neither as “objective” as science, nor as subjective as science-fiction. ‘Science non-fiction’ is not just a neologism. […]
Deleuze/Guattari: ‘Stop the World!’ — Techno Occulture
As a grad student in anthropology it was made very clear to me that Carlos Castaneda was undoubtedly a fraud as an ethnographer (see here), as Hickman alludes to, but […]
Mutant Culture: Metamorphosis and the Dividual
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless……
Noötechnics: Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault & Stiegler
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6W_Pxosyg
The 21st Century Whitehead Will Be Deleuzian
Originally posted on Becoming Integral: Notes on Planetary Coexistence:
I often find myself thinking with Alfred North Whitehead. I recall that today is his birthday, Feburary 15 (1861-1947). I don’t…
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
Zero’s Non-identity and the Commodification of Identity-Formation; or: Sketches for a Subtractive Ethics of Zero
[following from my previous post on the positive ontological status of zero] so as i get closer to the end of guy debord’s the society of the spectacle and see him […]
Re-conceptualizing Zero; or: Zero-stroke
Tonight, I want to talk about zero (big props to Petra for the music). To be honest, I’ve resisted the exploration of zero for some time, despite it being part of the […]
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