•  22
    Dramatization as Life Practice: Counteractualisation, Event and Death
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 10 (1): 50-69. 2016.
    The concept of dramatization represents a rhetorical and conceptual tension in Deleuze's philosophy in that it refers both to autopoietic ontological processes and to a critical philosophical method. Commentators are wont to refer to either one or the other, saying little about how or if these two fundamentally distinct usages can be thought together; that is what we aim to do here. By unravelling the conceptual transformations of the term, we can gain an appreciation for the double characterisa…Read more
  •  15
    Bruising the Rose: Becoming Beautiful in Gordon Bearn's Life Drawing: A Deleuzian Aesthetics of Existence (review)
    Comparative and Continental Philosophy 7 (1): 98-106. 2015.
    This review essay develops Gordon Bearn's interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy as an aesthetic existential indicative of the creative practice of life drawing. Life drawing requires moving beyond various forms of representation that stultify the movement of becoming and limit our ability to appreciate sensuous singularity and intensive pluralities. Sholtz offers an original account of the singularity of sensual existence, amplifying the tenuous relationship between beauty and suffering, or the…Read more
  •  14
    In Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus volumes, revolution, social transformation, and the possibility of a new future are all linked to desire: minimally, to the freeing of desire from the false refuges of Oedipalization and its constructs of molar sexuality. Everywhere, they seek to uncover the potential of desire, sexuality, and love, asking us to consider that what we take to be the most personal is impersonal, how the most intimate is the collective and social. Thus, it calls us to rethink …Read more
  •  13
    This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regulation and abstention, Bataille and Deleuze advocate training the self towards intensification of the liminal and extreme, which can rather be understood as a denial of self – its dissolution or lacer…Read more
  •  11
    A Thousand Plateaus and Cosmic Artisanry: On Becoming Destroyer of Worlds
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 15 (2): 197-225. 2021.
    In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari carve out an image of thought and a path for philosophy that is connected to the figure of the cosmic artisan. This article situates the artisan in relation to both past and future, comparing this figure to that of the artist in the work of another great philosopher who desired to bring forth a new beginning for philosophy, Martin Heidegger. After discussing multiple ways that Deleuze and Guattari's thought is world-destroying in terms of past ontolog…Read more
  •  4
    The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger's thought and Deleuze's novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the connection of earth, art and a people-to-come.
  •  4
    Introduction: Infinite Eros
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 12 (4): 455-465. 2018.
  •  4
    The Genetic Power of Paradox: From Dark Precursor to Quasi-Causality
    Deleuze and Guattari Studies 14 (1): 50-70. 2020.
    In this article, I conduct a selective reading of Difference and Repetition that intertwines with The Logic of Sense, specifically in relation to the concept of paradox, underscoring how Deleuze's work itself is a performance of the necessity of paradoxical thinking and the insistence on an image of thought which incorporates paradox as its central feature. I argue that para-sense anticipates the centrality of paradox in Logic of Sense, just as the obscure, unilluminated element of Ideas anticip…Read more
  •  1
    Deleuze and Guattari develop an account of communal interaction and political awareness corresponding to an ontology of becoming that resists the metaphysical priority of substance or essence and that accounts for the multiple networks and forces that underlie these illusory projections of wholeness. Their geo-philosophy accounts for the intersection of the new ontological vision with the concrete social formations indicative of the modern “cosmic” age—post-industrialist, information-driven, vir…Read more
  •  1
    8. Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault
    In Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 139-159. 2016.
  • Book Review (review)
    Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 80-87. 2010.
    A book review of Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction, a collection edited by Constantin Boundas