DANIEL W. SMITH - ON THE SOURCES OF NORMATIVITY: A DELEUZEAN ACCOUNT @ Purdue University as part of the Illuminations Lecture Series on Thursday April 4th, 2013.

Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world’s leading commentators on Deleuze. He is the translator of Deleuze’s Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical And Clinical, as well as Isabelle Stengers’ The Invention of Modern Science and Pierre Klossowski’s Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle. Dr. Smith is the author of Essays on Deleuze and, most recently, the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze.

Dr. Smith presented this lecture, “On the Sources of Normativity: A Deleuzean Account”, at Purdue University as part of the Illuminations Lecture Series on Thursday April 4th, 2013.

Deleuze and Ethics ( Deleuze Connections) - Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith - EUP, Uk, 2011

Concepts such as ethics, values, and normativity play a crucial – if subtle and easily overlooked – role in Deleuze’s overall philosophical project. The essays in this collection uncover and explore the ethical dimension of Deleuzian philosophy along diverse trajectories and, in so doing, endeavour to reclaim that philosophy as moral philosophy.

Ethics plays a crucial, if subtle, role in Gilles Deleuze's philosophical project. Michel Foucault claimed that Anti-Oedipus was "a book of ethics, the first books of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time". But what is the nature of the immanent ethics that is developed in Deleuze's thought ? How does it differ from previous conceptions of ethics ? And what paths does it open for future thought, given the ethical challenges facing humanity in so many domains ?

Each of the eleven essays in this collection explores the ethical dimension of Deleuze's thought along a new and singular trajectory, and in so doing, attempts to reclaim his philosophy as an ethical philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction - Nathan Jun

1) Whistle while you work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism - Jeffrey Bell

2) The ethics of the event: Deleuze and Ethics without Arche - Levi R. Bryant

3) While remaining on the shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud - Laura Cull

4) Responsive Becoming: Ethics between Deleuze and Feminism - Erinn Cunniff Gilson

5) Deleuze, Values, and Normativity - Nathan Jun

6) Ethics and the World without Others - Eleanor Kaufman

7) Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics - Daniel W. Smith

8) "Existing Not as a Subject But as a Work of Art": The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics? - Kenneth Surin

9) Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art - Anthony Uhlmann

10) Never too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death for a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy - James Williams

11) Ethics between Particularity and Universality - Audrone Zukauskaite

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Antonio Calcagno reviews "Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text by Holland, Stivale and Smith (Eds) @ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (N.6, 2010)

Eugene Holland, Daniel Smith, and Charles Stivale, three leading Deleuze scholars, have collaborated to produce a much needed and excellent book that focuses on Deleuze’s work on art, film, image, text and literature as well as philosophy.¹ The book is comprised of thirteen essays and includes an introduction by Holland. This collection stems from a conference originally held at the University of South Carolina from April 5-8, 2007, sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature, the English Department and College of Arts and Sciences, and organized by Professor Paul Allen Miller. Featured in the text are essays by major Deleuze and Guattari scholars, including Constantin Boundas, Elizabeth Grosz, and Éric Alliez. Holland notes,

Deleuze was intensely interested in the medium of thought — interested in both individual styles of thought and in the various genres in which thought is conducted. For thought is by no means limited to philosophy alone: it also takes place — can also take place, in the right hands and under the right circumstances — in science, mathematics, literature, painting and cinema, to mention some of the genres or media of thought to which Deleuze most often refers. (1)

Faithful to Deleuze’s vision, the editors bring together scholars and artists to think about and extend Deleuze and Guattari’s specific philosophical legacy concerning the arts and philosophy. But this collection is more than expository, as the editors have arranged the essays so that they assist readers in seeing how key concepts in Deleuze can actualize themselves through different frameworks. Holland comments,

In this volume, we have grouped essays according to genre categories — literature, art, philosophy 
- but as we and the contributors understand Deleuze’s work, these categories intersect in an ongoing circulation of conceptual exchange… . We wish to introduce this volume by highlighting some of the transverse connections linking the essays via issues of representation, temporality, affect, sensation and counter-actualization. (2)

Part I, “Text and Literature,” opens with an essay by Ronald Bogue titled “The Landscape of Sensation.” Here, the author asks, “What is the relationship between texts and images in Deleuze’s conception of the arts?” (9) Bogue’s response consists of a conceptual (also a “physical, literal”) model where he grafts various arts onto Deleuzian concepts. He remarks:

We may thus construct the final composite model: (1) landscape, melodic landscape, respiration-space and skeleton-space, universe, cosmos, monochromatic field, deterritorialization; (2) House, structure, territory and (3) face, rhythmic characters, non-human becomings, figure. How might the various arts be situated in regard to this model? (19)

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27.10.2011 - Gilles Deleuze. The Intensive Reduction - Constantin V. Boundas (Continuum, Uk, Paperback)

Pub. date: 27 Oct 2011 (Paperback)
Pub. date: 15 Feb 2009 (Hardcover)

Description

Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction brings together eighteen essays written by an internationally acclaimed team of scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze’s philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, Félix Guattari) that remains to this day controversial and unsettled. 
Since Deleuze’s death in 1995, the technical aspects of his philosophy have been largely neglected. These essays address that gap in the existing scholarship by focusing on his contribution to philosophy. Each contributor advances the discussion of a contested point in the philosophy of Deleuze to shed new light on as yet poorly-understood problems and to stimulate new and vigorous exchanges regarding his relationship to philosophy, schizoanlysis, his aesthetic, ethical and political thought. 
Together, the essays in this volume make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Deleuze’s philosophy.

Introduction 
Part I: Deleuze and Philosophy 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, Véronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France) 
2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada) 
3. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA) 
4. The New Whitehead?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Metaphysics,Keith Robinson (Davenport University, USA) 
Part II: Schizoanalysis and Lacan
5. On the Idea of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Deleuze and Lacan, Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago, USA) 
6. What if the Law is Written in a Porno Book? Deterritorializing Lacan, De-Oedipalizing Deleuze and Guattari, Shannon Winnubst (Southwestern University, USA)
7. From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA) 
Part III: Deleuze and the Arts 8. Deleuze, Philosophy and the Materiality of Painting, Darren Ambrose (University of Warwick, UK) 
9. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics of Difference, Henry Somers-Hall (University of Warwick, UK)
10. From the Death of the Author to the Disappearance of the Reader, Bruce Baugh (University College of the Cariboo, Canada) 
Part IV: Deleuze: The Ethical and the Political 11. Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates, Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 
12. From First Sparks to Local Clashes: Which Politics Today?, Philippe Mengue (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France) 
13. Deleuze's Practical Philosophy, Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
14. Gilles Deleuze's Politics: From Marxism to the Missing People, Alain Beaulieu (University of Sudbury, Canada) 
15. Affirmative Nomadology and War Machine, Eugene Holland (Ohio State University, USA) 
16. Deleuze and the 'Pairing at a Distance', Arnaud Villani (Lycée Masséna, Nice, France) 
List of Contributors 
Index

Author(s)

Constantin V. Boundas,

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) andEmpiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).

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27.10.2011 - Charles J. Stivale - Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (Acumen Publishing; Paperback, second edition re-visited)

Publication Date: 27 Oct 2011
DESCRIPTION:

Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy and literature to art, architecture and cultural studies. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts brings together leading specialists from a variety of different disciplines to introduce the central concepts in Gilles Deleuze's work. The concepts Deleuze employs in his writings are key to understanding his philosophical approach: they work to unsettle particular bodies of knowledge, to open them up, and to link them to other concepts within and outside those bodies of knowledge. These short and accessible chapters each focus on a single concept and explain what the concept is and what it does. Among the concepts examined are assemblage, the fold, difference and repetition, cinema and desire. The contributors consider how the concepts engage, intersect, and link, and how they relate to other areas of postmodern thought.

Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts is aimed at a readership coming to Deleuze for the first time both from within philosophy and from outside the discipline. It offers an invaluable guide to reading Deleuze's challenging and important body of work.

AUTHOR BIO:
Charles J. Stivale is Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University, Detroit.


CONTENTS:
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction Charles J. Stivale
Part I: Philosophies
1. Force Kenneth Surin
2. Expression Gregg Lambert
3. Difference, repetition Melissa McMahon
4. Desire Eugene W. Holland
Part II: Encounters
5. Sense, series Judith L. Poxon & Charles J. Stivale6. Event, James Williams
7. Assemblage J. Macgregor Wise
8. Micropolitics Karen Houle
9. Becoming-woman Patty Sotirin
10. The Minor Ronald Bogue
11. Style, stutter Christa Albrecht-Crane
12. Logic of Sensation Jennifer Daryl Slack
13. Cinema: movement-image-recognition-time Felicity J. Colman
Part III: Folds
14. From affection to soul Gregory J. Seigworth
15. Folds and folding Tom Conley
16. Critical, clinical Daniel W. Smith17. Philosophy, Gregory Flaxman
Chronology of Gilles Deleuze
References
Index


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