Some philosophers, struck with the recent discovery that no one set of metaphysical assumptions is necessary to communication, have fallen into the fallacy of thinking that we can communicate without any metaphysics at all… It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of discoveries in 2000 years to…
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Deleuze and the Time for Non-Reason
Recent IAI discussion contribution on reason and unreason
Continue ReadingDeleuze’s Philosophy of Time: Time as Dimensions, Syntheses and Problems (Vilnius, Lithuanian Philosophical Association, May 2019)
Expanded text to my keynote talk on Deleuze and time given to the Lithuanian Philosophical Association, May 2019
Continue ReadingCinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy”
Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy” is now online at cjpmi.ifilnova.pt. I was guest editor, working with Susana Viegas, for this issue. Thanks to a terrific line up of papers and Susana’s outstanding knowledge of the field, the issue tackles the relation…
Continue ReadingDeleuze and the new (revisited)
Deleuze and the new (revisited) One of the most important places Deleuze discusses the new is in the section on the third synthesis of time in Difference and Repetition. His study has been considered by, among many others, Daniel W. Smith, and Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke in their collection…
Continue ReadingDeleuze and the Sublime
Deleuze and the sublime January 29, 2019 PHI research group, Deakin University Deakin Downtown. Level 12 Tower 2 – 727 Collins Street Melbourne 3008 Australia Details 11am. James Williams (Deakin). The end of all universal values: an anarchist takedown of the sublime 12pm. Lunch 1pm. Tim Deane-Freeman (Deakin). A murmuring place: the…
Continue ReadingPosthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze
My article in this innovative volume edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall is on time and the posthuman (there’s an earlier draft in the Deleuze section of this site). There are many great articles in the collection, on pressing contemporary issues, including environment and ecology, political action after Deleuze,…
Continue ReadingReview of Jay Lampert’s The Many Futures of a Decision
My review of Jay Lampert’s The Many Futures of Decision in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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
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
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