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DELEUZE: DISCUSSION ON IVENS AND HEGEL (translated from notes by Jean-Clet Martin)

Reblogged and translated from Jean-Clet Martin’s blog STRASS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE May 20 A discussion by Deleuze concerning Ivens and Hegel Ah what was I saying, what were we saying? Well, Ivens, the old Ivens… Well, what in fact is … Lire la suite

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UNE DISCUSSION DE DELEUZE SUR IVENS ET HEGEL

Rebloggé du blog de Jean-Clet Martin STRASS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE May 20 Une discussion de Deleuze sur Ivens et Hegel Euh qu’est-ce que je disais, qu’est-ce que nous disions ? Eh bien, Ivens. Ivens vieux… Eh bien quoi au juste dans … Lire la suite

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quote of the day

ATHEOLOGY, another very interesting blog, publishes this (paraphraseded) quote from Meillassoux, without comment. In the interest of completeness I appended one possible comment, no doubt others are possible. quote of the day.

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Strung along

From Angela Roothaan’s excellent blog. A post on William James’ A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE Strung along.

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TRANSMINING: Harman’s Reductionism

Graham Harman denies the reality of the simplest objects that we can see or touch: as common sense objects they are, he tells us, « utter shams ». The same remark applies to scientific objects. What is real? Harman postulates a domain … Lire la suite

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FEYERABEND AND THE DOG: BECOMING UN-DEFINED

An interesting example of the dog as psychoanalyst (really schizoanalyst, but let’s not quibble about brand names) is given by Feyerabend in his autobiography KILLING TIME. He describes his passage from « icy egotist » to a human being capable of friendship … Lire la suite

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FROM DEMONICITY TO COSMICITY: FOR A NON-APOTROPAIC RELATION

The dog teaches us that all is meat, prey to decomposition and decay. It teaches us that we can go for the bare bones of the situation, cutting away the flesh to get to that which assembles it: skeleton, framework, … Lire la suite

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DELEUZE AND DEMONICITY: PLAYING WITH THE DOG

Deleuze remarks that a dualism can be a good first step on the way to a multiplicity. So when he opposes barking and howling we can be sure that this is a preliminary distinction to get us to feel something … Lire la suite

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DELEUZE: HOW CAN YOU STAND THOSE DOGS?

We have seen that Deleuze does not enunciate judgements, he does not « judge » schizos, he evaluates assemblages. The same philospohical ethic is present in his attitude towards dogs. James Hillman remarks « There are no wrong or negative animals, in dreams … Lire la suite

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DELEUZE: HOW CAN YOU STAND THOSE SCHIZOS?

Alain Aptekman recounts an interesting anecdote about Deleuze’s attitude to « schizos »: “One day, Félix, Arlette Donati, Gilles, and I were eating at Dhuizon and we got a call from La Borde saying that a guy had set fire to the … Lire la suite

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