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21The Stilling of the Aufhebung: Streit in "The Origin of the Work of Art"Heidegger Studies 6 67-83. 1990.
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87In 2005 Mike Wheeler published a very nice book with MIT entitled Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step. Wheeler writes about – and is at the forefront of – a group of researchers calling attention to what we can call 4EA cognition: "embodied, embedded, enactive, extended, affective." The philosophical resource for Wheeler’s “next step” is Heidegger. I think it's time we use Deleuze to take another next step.1 I’m going to use Deleuze’s essay on Lucretius as a lead. There, Deleuze wr…Read more
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94Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sørensen (eds.), Deleuze and the Social (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)Foucault Studies 5 145-147. 2008.
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The land and the riverIn Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.), Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 165. 2009.
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82Hurricane Katrina was an elemental and a social event. To understand it, you first have to understand the land, the air, the sun, the river and the sea; you have to understand earth, wind, fire and water; you have to understand geomorphology, meteorology, biology, economics, politics, history. You have to understand how they have come together to form, with the peoples of America, Europe and Africa, the historical patterns of life of Louisiana and New Orleans, the bodies politic of the region, b…Read more
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16Is the United States on the verge of becoming an empire? This much-discussed question is, like too many current public issues, a badly formed problem. Not because it is impossible to answer, but because it is far too easy to construct an answer to fit your purposes.
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32Review of Eric Alliez, The Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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11Egyptian Priests and German Professors: On Alleged Difficulty of PhilosophyPhilosophy Today 41 (1): 181-188. 1997.
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44In this paper I investigate the mechanics of killing, brining together neuroscience, military history, and the work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. Investigating the Columbine killers and the way they negotiate with the intensity of the act of killing allows me to construct a concept of “political physiology,” defined as “interlocking intensive processes that articulate the patterns, thresholds, and triggers of emergent bodies, forming assemblages linking the social a…Read more
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50In this paper I try to bring together two contexts in which the term “gene” is used. Perhaps this is overly hasty. But I’m trying to bring a term from an evolutionary context (“unexpressed genetic variation”) together with one from a developmental context (“constructed functional gene”)
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31Let’s look at Wikipedia itself, which is misunderstood constantly as “self-organizing and selfcorrecting.” In fact there is a strict hierarchy of levels of editorship. Also, “high-quality articles tend to experience entropic degradation … as various Wiki-workers … tinker with them” (423). Most Wiki-work is Sisyphean fight against constant vandalism, and most articles never converge on any stable form.
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59The Terri Schiavo case, the latest high-profile “right-to-die” case in the United States, whose denouement saturated the US mediasphere at the end of March 2005, is a particularly complex problem in the Deleuzean sense. Its solution, which took more than 15 years, actualized lines from legal, medical, biological, political … multiplicities. The ellipses indicate the impossibility of completely delimiting the forces at work in any case (the virtual as endless differentiation) just as it indicates…Read more
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35Between Geophilosophy and Political PhysiologyPli 18. 2007.But first, let me note that these two are terms derived more or less directly from the collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Now I think it’s important that analytic and continental philosophers learn to talk to each other, and I’m convinced that Deleuze and Guattari’s work, when properly explained, provides a common ground for this discussion. That’s because they provide the ontology and epistemology for a world that is able to yield the results we fin…Read more
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