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Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The manuscript dates from 1966, it … Lire la suite →

End of the analysis of the first paragraph. Deleuze and Guattari’s method. Motivation and meaning of the question. Gerontocracy vs ripeness.

In this video I discuss the first paragraph of Deleuze and Guattari’s final collaborative book WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? as constituting in effect the third volume in the Capitalism and Schizophrenia project. Written from the perspective of « old age », the book … Lire la suite →

Hello, I want to talk to you today about a new book by Tristan Garcia that came out just this Wednesday (February 8 2023). TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING THE TITLE: Heidegger with Nietzsche The book’s title is LAISSER ËTRE ET RENDRE … Lire la suite →

I will be live vlogging in English my reading of Tristan Garcia’s new philosophical treatise LAISSER ËTRE ET RENDRE PUISSANT. In this video I give my first impressions of the book, its title and contents, and the summary given on … Lire la suite →

I. The Title: the concept and its figurations The introduction is titled « You, what have you done with the incommensurable? » This is an evocative title, and it could almost have been phrased « You, what have you done with your incommensurable? … Lire la suite →

The book is 233 pages long, and contains an unnumbered introduction (6 pages) and 7 chapters (each from 30 to 40 pages long). Table of contents from L’incommensurable by François Jullien, Editions de l’Observatoire/Humensis, 2022. You, what have you done … Lire la suite →

I have been reading François Jullien’s work, off and on, for a little over 33 years – since the publication in French of his PROCESS OR CREATION An introduction to the thought of Chinese literary scholars, published in 1989 and … Lire la suite →

In this video I give a detailed analysis of and commentary on the first paragraph of Gilles Deleuze’s LOGIC OF SENSE in relation to the question: in what sense can we be said to be Deleuzian today? Subjects discussed: Foucault’s … Lire la suite →

In Deleuze and Guattari’s collaborative works in the original French the word « flux » crops up constantly and is a central technical term in their philosophy. The English translations render this one French word randomly as « flux » or « flow », jumping from … Lire la suite →