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26In 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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54The magnum opus of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, is not only the most important work of 20th century French philosophy, but also provides an unprecedented opportunity for philosophers and geographers to collaborate. Although neither were professional geographers A Thousand Plateaus constitutes a “geophilosophy,” a neo-materialism, which, in linking the philosophical materialisms of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud with contemporary science, avoids the traditional bogeys of mat…Read more
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115Adding Deleuze to the mixPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9 (3): 417-436. 2010.In this article I will suggest ways in which adding the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the mix can complement and extend the 4EA approach to cognitive science. In the first part of the paper, I will show how the Deleuzean tripartite ontological difference (virtual/intensive/actual) can provide an explicit ontology for dynamical systems theory. The second part will take these ontological notions and apply them to three areas of concern to the 4EA approaches: (a) the Deleuzean concept of the…Read more
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21La verità della parola (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (3): 612-614. 1989.Anna Cazzullo, one of the leading young Italian scholars, a student of Carlo Sini, has produced a most useful work on the origins of Western thought on metaphor. Cazzullo begins her La verità della parola with a Borges poem in which the birth of logos, as represented by a conversation between "two Greeks, perhaps Socrates and Parmenides," is accompanied by a suppression of myth and metaphor. This dual gesture, in which philosophy originates through the marginalization of other types of discourse…Read more
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17Inventio and the Unsurpassable Metaphor: Ricoeur's Treatment of Augustine's Time MeditationPhilosophy Today 43 (1): 86-94. 1999.
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9Egyptian priests and German professors: On the alleged difficulty of philosophyPhilosophy Today 41 (1): 181-188. 1997.
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36Review of Catherine Malabou, Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
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30For Deleuze and for DG, being is production. The production process (intensive difference driving material flows resulting in actual or extensive forms) is structured by virtual Ideas or multiplicities or “abstract machines.”1 Thought, however, is vice-diction or counter-effectuation: it goes the other way from production. It is a matter of establishing the Idea / multiplicity of something – “constructing a concept” – by moving from extensity through intensity to virtuality.
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144Forthcoming in Cognitive Architecture: from bio-politics to noo-politics, eds. Deborah Hauptmann, Warren Neidich and Abdul-Karim Mustapha INTRODUCTION The cognitive and affective sciences have benefitted in the last twenty years from a rethinking of the long-dominant computer model of the mind espoused by the standard approaches of computationalism and connectionism. The development of this alternative, often named the “embodied mind” approach or the “4EA” approach (embodied, embedded, enactive,…Read more
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51Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body PoliticAthlone Press. 2001.Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
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123Francisco Varela’s work is a monumental achievement in 20th century biological and biophilosophical thought. After his early collaboration in neo-cybernetics with Humberto Maturana (“autopoiesis”), Varela made fundamental contributions to immunology (“network theory”), Artificial Life (“cellular automata”), cognitive science (“enaction”), philosophy of mind (“neurophenomenology”), brain studies (“the brainweb”), and East- West dialogue (the Mind and Life conferences). In the course of his career…Read more
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100As befits a French philosopher of the 1960s, Gilles Deleuze (1925-995), was famous for his antihumanism and his anti-essentialism. Humans are fully part of nature with no supernatural supplement; and essences are not the way to individuate things. That doesn’t seem to leave much room for a Deleuzean human nature, but that’s what I want to try to explore. I’ll take my clue from what he says in A Thousand Plateaus about nomads, who “reterritorialize on their power of deterritorialization.” In othe…Read more
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39For the most part, this is a fairly literal translation, but I have opted for a few English idioms for the sake of readability. In that spirit, I have kept the original punctuation, which results in very long sentences, but I have inserted paragraph breaks for readability. I mark these inserted breaks with this sign [¶]; unmarked breaks are in the original. In addition to providing the French for difficult translations, I also interpolate a few English words for readability. Translator’s notes a…Read more
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31Deleuze and Geophilosophy: A Guide and GlossaryEdinburgh University Press. 2019.This is the first book to use complexity theory to open up the 'geophilosophy' developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus and What is Philosophy?.
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56Once one of the most important philosophical concepts (it is impossible to think of Plato without erôs, or Aristotle without philia, or Augustine without caritas and cupiditas), love doesn't get much philosophical notice nowadays, at least outside psychoanalytic circles. Or so it seems. But couldn't one just as well say that Derrida and Deleuze think about nothing but love? What have they written that isn't linked rather directly to desire, to alterity, to getting outside oneself, even if "love"…Read more
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Review of 'The signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy?'by Eric Alliez (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. forthcoming.
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27Dans cette présentation je vais essayer de vous montrer comment les principes deleuzoguattariens de la géophilosophie peuvent être mis en contact avec ce que j’appelle la « physiologie politique ». Ces deux domaines de recherche sont les mieux pensés par rapport aux « sciences de complexité », c’est-à-dire, par rapport aux modelages accomplis par les techniques mathématiques dans le domaine de la dynamique non-linéaire.
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7Politics without why: Acting at the end of philosophyResearch in Phenomenology 19 (1): 291-298. 1989.
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22The 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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105Philosophies of Consciousness and the BodyIn John Mullarkey & Beth Lord (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Continuum. pp. 69-92. 2009.DEFINING THE LIMITS OF THE FIELD. Because 'consciousness and the body' is central to so many philosophical endeavors, I cannot provide a comprehensive survey of recent work. So we must begin by limiting the scope of our inquiry. First, we will concentrate on work done in English or translated into English, simply to ensure ease of access to the texts under examination. Second, we will concentrate on work done in the last 15 years or so, since the early 1990s. Third, we will concentrate on those …Read more
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The land and the riverIn Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.), Deleuze/Guattari & ecology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 165. 2009.
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95Martin 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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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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83KatrinaIn Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.), Deleuze/Guattari & ecology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 363-381. 2009.Hurricane 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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11Egyptian Priests and German Professors: On Alleged Difficulty of PhilosophyPhilosophy Today 41 (1): 181-188. 1997.
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