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79An Approach to Difference and RepetitionJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 5 (11): 35-43. 2010.The essay attempts to approach some of the critical nuances of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. It takes its lead from Deleuze’s distinction between learning and knowledge. Learning implies a “depersonalization through love,” in mutual presupposition with an “encounter” that moves one to thought, while knowledge is recognition via pre-existing categories. Throughout the article, Deleuze’s encounter with Kant is the guiding thread.
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2Repeating the parracide-Levinas and the question of closureJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 23 (1): 21-32. 1992.
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14Heidegger's Pragmatism: Understanding, Being and the Critique of Metaphysics, and: Heidegger, Kant and TimeJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 631-633. 1990.
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139Rhythm and Cadence, Frenzy and March: Music and the Geo-Bio-Techno-Affective Assemblages of Ancient WarfareTheory and Event 13 (3). 2010.
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28In the first part of this talk I show how some ideas in the new "4EA" branch of cognitive science, which gets away from the computer metaphor to talk about affective cognition as the direction of action of an organism, can be illuminated by Deleuze's ontology. Now that may sound ridiculous, as Deleuze's terminology is notoriously baroque – how could it ever "illuminate" anything? So I'm going to be using plain English translations of his concepts; I think his concepts are too good, too useful, f…Read more
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33Violence and Authority in KantEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (1): 65-89. 1994.
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104God has been called many things, but perhaps nothing so strange as the name of “lobster” which he receives in A Thousand Plateaus.1 Is this simple profanation a pendant to the gleeful anti-clericalism of Deleuze2, for whom there is no insult so wretched as that of “priest”?3 Certainly, on one level. But it is also a clue to Deleuze’s ability to use a traditional concern of theology, the name of God, to intervene in the most basic questions of Western philosophy, in this case, the interchange of …Read more
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126While Agamben acknowledges the Arendtian and Foucaultian thesis of the modernity of biopower, he will claim that sovereignty and biopolitics are equally ancient and essentially intertwined in the originary gesture of all politics; sovereignty is the power to decide the state of exception whereby bare life or zoe is exposed "underneath" political life or bios. Agamben then finds in the concentration camp the modern biopolitical paradigm, in which the state of exception has become the rule and we …Read more
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Kimberly Hutchings, Kant, Critique and Politics (London: Routledge, 1996). xi & 219Journal of Nietzsche Studies 15 92. 1998.
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64Truth and genesis: Philosophy as differential ontology (review)Continental Philosophy Review 38 (1-2): 125-129. 2005.
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49Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the SciencesUniversity of Minnesota Press. 2013.Applies Deleuzian theory to an array of physical phenomena, scientific issues, and political events. Life, War, Earth demonstrates how Gilles Deleuze’s ontology of the virtual, intensive, and actual can enhance our understanding of important issues in cognitive science, biology, and geography. The book offers a unique reading of Deleuze’s corpus and a useful method for applying Deleuzian techniques to the natural sciences, the social sciences, political phenomena, and contemporary events.
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18Review of Rosalyn Diprose, jack Reynolds (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (12). 2008.
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88In this essay I’d like to help readers prepare to learn from Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition.1 Such an essay is needed, as truer words were never spoken than when Deleuze said of it in his "Letter to a Harsh Critic": "it's still full of academic elements, it's heavy going"2 Now part of the “academic” aspect of the work comes from Deleuze having submitted Difference and Repetition to his jury as the primary thesis for the doctorat d'Etat in 1968.3 But that doesn’t lessen the need for h…Read more
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24The New APPS interview with Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, will run in two parts. Part II is here; Part I was last week. Philosophy and other humanities are under increasing pressure to justify their existence in universities on short-term economic criteria, sometimes in number of majors...
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107In looking at Derrida’s career, many people claim to see a “political turn” with the 1989 essay “Force of Law.” So on this reading, the early Derrida is concerned with metaphysics and literature and the later Derrida with politics and ethics. I disagree. The concerns have always been metaphysical/literary and political/ethical at once, but the “methodology” changes: from deconstruction to aporia.
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23In 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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108The "sense" of "sight": Heidegger and Merleau-ponty on the meaning of bodily and existential sightResearch in Phenomenology 28 (1): 211-223. 1998.
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4Charles M. Sherover, "Heidegger, Kant and Time" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 631. 1990.
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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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52The 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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113Adding 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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16Inventio and the Unsurpassable Metaphor: Ricoeur's Treatment of Augustine's Time MeditationPhilosophy Today 43 (1): 86-94. 1999.
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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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9Egyptian priests and German professors: On the alleged difficulty of philosophyPhilosophy Today 41 (1): 181-188. 1997.
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