DESONANCE: DESONATING (WITH) DELEUZE by Zafer Aracagök (VDM Verlag, 2009)

DESONANCE: DESONATING (WITH) DELEUZE by Zafer Aracagök

This collection of essays claims to be opening up Deleuze (and Guattari)’s thought to new paths by way of scrutinising the place of the concept of “resonance” both in contemporary continental philosophy, and particularly, in Deleuze’s works. One essay after another, the author develops a critique of Deleuze’s use of the concept of “resonance” towards a new concept, “desonance,” which has serious implications for the urgency of a reconsideration of Deleuze’s and continental philosophy’s relationship to the Kantian question of the “immediate.”

The main question directed to Deleuze is whether there is something else which puts the Deleuzian “resonance” into resonance? Informing Deleuze’s reading of Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lacan, and quantum theory, this question, as the author discusses, leads to a question of the “first” and thus creates various problems for Deleuze’s theorisation of the immediate and the event. Responding to this difficulty, Aracagök elaborates his concept of “desonance” with respect to quantum theory less to offer a solution to a huge problem than to preserve the “problematic” as a problem as Deleuze himself would have put it. 

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. On Rhythm, Resonance and Distortion
3. Noise on Noise
4. Refraining from the Refrain
5. Decalcomania, Mapping and Mimesis
6. Desonance

Dr. Zafer Aracagök is an academic/musician who teaches art theory and continental philosophy at Bilgi University, Istanbul TR. He will be organising “Resonances: A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics” at Bilgi Univ. in 2010 with a special Deleuze and Guattari issue he will be editing for Parallax (Routledge) in 2011.



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Manola Antonioli and Bruno Heuzé - The Power of Sound: Resonance and Refrain - Parallax, volume 18, Issue 1, 2012

Volume 18 - Issue 1 - 2012 Special Issue: resonances: deleuze & guattari

The Power of Sound: Resonance and Refrain (pg. 87-95)

Manola Antonioli has a PhD in philosophy and social sciences from the EHESS in Paris. She has organized several conferences on Deleuze and Guattari and teaches at l' Ecole de Management Audencia, l'Ecole Supélec, and Telecom & Management Sud Paris. She has published widely on continental philosophy. Among her recent works are Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari et le politique, co-ed., Paris, Éditions du Sandre, 2006, and Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari. Une rencontre dans l' après Mai 68, co-ed., Paris, L' Harmattan, 2009. She is a member of the editorial of Revue Chimères and Résonances de Maurice Blanchot.

Bruno Heuzé is a musician and journalist living and working in Paris. He regularly publishes works about the relationships between music and philosophy. He contributes to several reviews like Chimères, Résonance,ArtPress, Music in flux, La Quinzaine Littéraire, Mouvement, and collaborates every month with Keyboardsmagazine. Among his recent publications are ‘Le sampleur, catalyseur de nouvelles géographies musicales’ inHumains non humains, La Découverte, 2011 and ‘Du devenir-insecte de l'iPodiste’ in Chimères no.73, 2010.

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