Archive for the ‘ Deleuze ’ Category

Latour, realism, and resistance.

With thesis bound – or at least at the bindery – and blog once again in working order, I’ve come back around to thinking about new things. Specifically, Latour, and actor-network theory, and this peculiar beast which, as Bruno himself puts it, we have to call ‘[philosophy, sociology, history, ethnography, etc.] … of science and [ READ MORE ]

there will be masks.

Prof. Steven Shaviro posted on his blog a few days ago a brief meditation on Daniel Day-Lewis’ (now Oscar-winning) performance in There Will be Blood, responding to Salon’s rather scathing review of said performance. Quite a fascinating post really, and one which linked to and generated a number of very interesting comments. Definitely worth taking [ READ MORE ]

three theses.

The first is a fun one: normative thought and racism are fundamentally linked. More generally, we might note that all internal and external totalitarianisms (that is, totalitarianism in thought or in deed), even that fundamental totalitarianism of the ‘Good,’ that good or otherwise Platonic totalitarianism, lead to an essentially anti-humanist pattern of thought. This [ READ MORE ]

‘two things’ about deleuze and psychoanalysis.

I was writing what I intended to be a brief note on a Deleuze quote I planned to use in a paper, and it kind of spiralled out of control into a rough statement of where I want to take my investigations of Deleuze, Derrida and lingustic différance / vs ontological differenc/tiation (I had to [ READ MORE ]