My review of Jay Lampert’s The Many Futures of Decision in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Review of Kiff Bamford’s Jean-François Lyotard
Here is my review in French Studies of the very enjoyable and inventive new biography of Lyotard by Kiff Bamford, published by Reaktion Books in their Critical Lives series. I’ve added a link to the longer version on my Reviews page as well. Bamford, Lyotard
Continue ReadingThe Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze
The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze Full PDF of my book of essays on Deleuze and Kant, Levinas, Bachelard, Whitehead, Lewis, Harman, Negri and Lyotard
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The Politics of (Post) Truth I’ll post my talk on signs and truth from this Cumberland Lodge conference later in November
Continue ReadingDissensus, Judgment, Universality: Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics
November 30 – December 1 International Workshop Dissensus, Judgment, Universality Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” Goethe University, Frankfurt. Program for the Workshop. I’ll be speaking about the potential for resistance to normativity and the deeper understanding of the genesis of normative orders…
Continue ReadingARCP 14: Putting the Deleuzian Machine to Work in Psychology 2018
New issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Deleuze, edited by Maria Nichterlein, ARCP 14: Putting the Deleuzian Machine to Work in Psychology. It includes my article on Deleuze, Guattari and Method. ARCP 14
Continue ReadingBalibar and the Citizen Subject
Edited by Warren Montag and Hannan Elsayed Balibar and the Citizen Subject New Volume in the Critical Connections series I run with Ian Buchanan (new proposals for the series always welcome) The articles by Balibar on Hobbes and Schmitt are quietly devastating for the new right. The essays in the…
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Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy The University of Bonn International Centre for Philosophy NRW The Philosophy of Events My seminars will be on signs and events (in Deleuze, Whitehead and my process philosophy of signs)
Continue ReadingA Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy
I’m one of the editors, but I can recommend this volume on A Thousand Plateaus with a clear and serene conscience. Each of the contributors does something new and critical with a plateau, in ways unexpected and frighteningly rigorous, in the sense of testing ideas to the limit and, in…
Continue ReadingComedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance
Comedy and Critical Thought, edited by Iain MacKenzie, Fred Francis, and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone Includes my chapter on signs, diagrams and humour, ‘Diagrams of Comic Estrangement’ Draft version here
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