"Strange Kinship" and Ascidian Life: 13 Repetitions
In Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011 (ISSN1948-352X)
What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect,... more What might it mean to engage in ethical relations with other animals? What choreographies or constellations of affect, prohibition, connection, care, incorporation, facilitation, ignorance, conservation, curiosity, or other modes of interbeing might guide me, a distinctly human being, concerned with ―living well‖ with other-than-human animals? Beginning with the whale, but moving to the sea squirt, in this article I suggest that while an animal ethics based on affinity might be an important starting point for cultivating such relations, it is unable to capture the complexity of the ways in which human and other animal bodies intersect. Instead, we might begin taking stock of these ―strange kinships‖ by attending to the ways in which we repeat one another, but differently. But such inventories also require adequate ways of repeating these modes of interbeing in textual practice.
On Praxis Event
by P Madhu
In this short paper I attempt to explain ‘praxis event’ guided by the theoretical advancements of Deleuze, Delanda,... more
In this short paper I attempt to explain ‘praxis event’ guided by the theoretical advancements of Deleuze, Delanda, Badiou and Bourdieu. ‘Praxis event’ is discussed because it is the propellant of becoming and unbecoming (Madhu 2005). I have elaborately discussed praxis as event in an earlier paper on rethinking praxis intervention (Madhu 2011). In this paper I distinguish praxis event from non-events and counter-events. This paper is inspired by the ongoing ‘Praxis Intervention’ research project among Christian Dalits of Manjadikkari, Kerala, India
Young people and sexual assemblages: changing theories, changing subjectivities in changing times
by Emma Renold
This is a paper in progress and co-authored with Gabrielle Ivinson
This paper draws on ethnographic data of young teens (age 12-14) living in a postindustrial ex-mining community in the... more This paper draws on ethnographic data of young teens (age 12-14) living in a postindustrial ex-mining community in the South Wales valleys to explore historically situated, emplaced and processual understandings of young sexual subjectivities. We draw upon recent materialist feminist and queer theorising which provides us with new epistemologies to map complex affective sexual assemblages that recognise the entanglement of bodies in space, place, materiality and time, "where individuals, and subjective micro-intensities blend with and connect to neighbourhood, local, regional, social, cultural, aesthetic and economic relations directly (Grosz 1994:180). We explore what a girl and boy body can do, become and bear in communities where sedimented dichotomous gender roles and myopic displaced social cultural representations of ‘valley girls’ and ‘valley boys’, inherited from the industrial past, endure. In this presentation, we take up Guatarri’s ethico-political aesthetic to map the ensemble of conditions or ‘existential territories’ that open and enable (e.g. through safety and belonging) and block and constrain (e.g. through fear and anxiety) deterritorialized movements or ‘lines of flight’ of a range of sexual becomings in our data.
Alterliberalism (review of Foucault's Birth of Biopolitics for Radical Philosophy)
by Mark Kelly
RP 153 (Jan/Feb 2009)
Slavoj Žižek sur Walter Lippmann: Un méta-commentaire sur la question du pouvoir
Cet article interroge la présence de la figure de Walter Lippmann dans le corpus žižékien et développe l’hypothèse que... more Cet article interroge la présence de la figure de Walter Lippmann dans le corpus žižékien et développe l’hypothèse que celle-ci s’avère cruciale pour illustrer le fonctionnement contemporain du pouvoir. Après voir montré comment la figure de Lippmann permet également d’exemplifier les concepts de «biopolitique» (Foucault, 2004) et de «société de contrôle» (Deleuze, 1990), cet article propose une relecture de la critique žižékienne des « philosophes pervers » (Foucault et Deleuze) mettant l’accent sur des complémentarités et des incompréhensions entre ces différentes conceptions du pouvoir.
La structure cristalline dans Millenium Actress
travail réalisé en 2004 dans le cadre du cours d'Analyse Textuelle du cinéma suivi pendant ma formation en Écritures et Analyses Cinématographiques à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Étude du film Millenieum Actress de Satochi Kon, à travers le filtre de la structure cristalline de Deleuze. Étude du film Millenieum Actress de Satochi Kon, à travers le filtre de la structure cristalline de Deleuze.
Vol. 2, No. 2, 2011 (English): Governmentality – Neoliberalism – Education: the Risk Perspective
Themed Issue: Governmentality – Neoliberalism – Education: the Risk Perspective
Ondrej Kaščák & Branislav Pupala (eds.)
Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism
Springer, S. Forthcoming. Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism. Critical Discourse Studies.
Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies... more Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the other hand, inquiries influenced by Marx in foregrounding neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology. This article seeks to shine some light on this division in an effort to open up new debates and recast existing ones in such a way that might lead to more flexible understandings of neoliberalism as a discourse. A discourse approach moves theorizations forward by recognizing neoliberalism is neither a ‘top down’ nor ‘bottom up’ phenomena, but rather a circuitous process of socio-spatial transformation.
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Seen by: and 115 moreHow could we study climate-related social innovation? Applying Deleuzean philosophy to Transition Towns
Environmental Politics, 19/6 (2010): 869-87
Co-authored with Jean Hillier
This paper explores the contribution that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze might offer to researchers studying social... more This paper explores the contribution that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze might offer to researchers studying social innovation in response to climate change. Since the publication of the Stern Report it has been recognized that climate change requires major changes to the way our economy is organized, but it also requires significant social and behavioral change. Can this be usefully viewed through the prism of theories of social innovation? How might such social innovation affect the life chances of the socially excluded and to what extent does it, therefore, offer a space for radical social change? The Transition Towns — a community movement in response to climate change — is used as a test-case of these ideas.
Hink (2010) - Acker’s "Empire" as Deleuzian Assemblage
by Gary Hink
Seminar: “Uncovering the Tradition of Vitalism in 20th Century Literature”
42nd Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association New Brunswick, NJ 07-10 April 2011
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Published in eTopia, an on-line initiative of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, in 2010.
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Seen by: and 32 moreOn the matter of chaos
‘On the Matter of Chaos,’ in Joan Broadhurst-Dixon (ed.) Deleuze and the Transcendental Unconscious (Warwick: University of Warwick 1992), pp. 137–157
Deleuze and Guattari, in Mille Plateaux, the second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, launch an attack on the... more Deleuze and Guattari, in Mille Plateaux, the second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, launch an attack on the notion of hylomorphism. Hylomorphism is the scholastic tag for the doctrine of matter and form, and it appears so arcane that one is led to wonder why Deleuze and Guattari should be interested even in refuting it. The thesis of this paper is that the model of hylomorphism is extremely widespread, that it must be addressed even for Deleuze and Guattari’s program to begin.
'Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and Deleuze Time-Image'
by Hamish Ford
Senses of Cinema, Issue 28, July-August 2003.
'Difficult Relations: Film Studies and Continental European Philosophy'
by Hamish Ford
in James Donald and Michael Renov (eds) The Sage Handbook of Film Studies, London: Sage, 2008, pp. 164-179.
The sense of dance. Dance research and transmedia practices. Introduction by Nicola Dusi and Cristina Righi
N. Dusi, C. Righi, eds., "The Sense of Dance. Dance Research and Transmedia Practices", Degrés. Revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologique, n. 141, 2010, Monographic Number.
Introduction in English and in French, by N. Dusi and C. Righi
Contemporary dance is a field full of interpretative possibilities for a Semiotics interested in dynamic and... more
Contemporary dance is a field full of interpretative possibilities for a Semiotics interested in dynamic and performance open texts connected to theatre practice and/or multimedia.
This monographic issue is the result of the International Congress "Il senso della danza. Dance research e pratiche transmediali" organised in September 2008, in Urbino (Italy) by the Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica of Urbino University. Curators of the congress: Nicola Dusi, Cristina Righi and Kathleen Delaney.
Bergson and Derrida: A Question of Writing Time as Philosophy's Other
Published in 'The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française,' Vol XIX, No 2 (2011) pp 96-120. This article can be viewed and uploaded for free on the journal's website's: http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/471/572
Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and... more Following the 1988 publication of Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, many contemporary critics such as Leonard Lawlor and Paul Douglass have re-contextualized Bergson within poststructuralism. In so doing, Bergsonian theory enables us to readdress questions associated with concepts of temporality and their relation to language. In considering this re-appropriation, Suzanne Guerlac in Thinking in Time: an introduction to Henri Bergson (2006), asks why Bergson has never been considered in relation to Derrida, given that the two philosophers share fundamental concerns about time and writing. Following Derrida’s critique of Husserl in La Voix et le phénomène (1967), it is perhaps the case that many critics categorize Bergson as a phenomenologist. However, I aim to develop the argument that Guerlac instigates and show that Derrida’s critique of Husserl in fact establishes a close proximity with Bergson’s view that Western metaphysics suppresses time as durée. I will show how both Bergson and Derrida operate with the understanding of a particular rupture in the full presence of the present, an expansion of consciousness as a ‘now’ to include a constant deferral to memory. While this overlap establishes an affinity, I conclude by showing that it simultaneously marks a point of diffraction with regard to how both seek to methodologically embody such a concept of time.
