Matt Lee - (v1.0) Oceanic Ontology and problematic thought

This is my doctoral thesis on Deleuze - currently self-published in order to get feedback and comments. The book is undergoing revision for possible independent publication, hence this is v1.0 of the text. This an account of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze which argues for a Nietzschean ontology of forces as the core 'oceanic' ontology of Deleuze and which then attempts to understand sense on the basis of this ontology, developing a concept of character which is then applied firstly to the conceptual case of aporias and secondly to the textual case of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. 
(Matt Lee, Volcanic Lines curator)


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Simon O'Sullivan - Spinoza between Lacan and Foucault (abstract 2011)

Simon O’Sullivan (Goldsmiths) ‘The Care of the Self versus the Ethics of Desire (or, Spinoza between Lacan and Foucault)’

Is Foucault’s “Care of the Self” part of that ethical tradition that Lacan undermines in his seminar on The Ethics of Psychonalysis, or does the former in fact involve a different understanding of ethics that brings it closer to the psychoanalytic programme itself? Spinoza’s own Ethics will operate as the mediating term here, as well as offering insights into both Lacan and Foucault’s definitions of the ethical subject.

Collapse - Volume III - DeleuzeatGreenwich 2007

COLLAPSE Volume III will be published in mid-October (2007) and is now available for advance purchase online by clicking here.

Collapse Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze' contains explorations of the work of Gilles Deleuze by pioneering thinkers in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, music and architecture. In addition, we publish in this volume two previously untranslated texts by Deleuze himself, along with a fascinating piece of vintage science fiction from one of his more obscure influences. Finally, as an annex to Collapse Volume II, we also include a full transcription of the conference on 'Speculative Realism' held in London earlier this year.

Whilst books continue to appear at an alarming rate which claim to put Deleuze's thought 'to work' in diverse areas outside of philosophy, we submit, in this volume, that his philosophical thought itself still remains enigmatic, both in its detail and in its major themes. The contributors to this volume aim to clarify, from a variety of perspectives, Deleuze's contribution to philosophy: in what does his philosophical originality lie; what does he appropriate from other philosophers and how does he transform it? And how can the apparently disparate threads of his work to be 'integrated' – what is the precise nature of the constellation of the aesthetic, the conceptual and the political proposed by Gilles Deleuze, and what are the overarching problems in which the numerous philosophical concepts 'signed Deleuze' converge?

The volume includes two newly-translated articles by Gilles Deleuze along with contributions from Arnaud Villani, Thomas Duzer, Quentin Meillassoux, John Sellars, Éric Alliez & Jean-Claude Bonne, Haswell & Hecker, Robin Mackay, Mehrdad Iravanian, J.-H. Rosny the Elder, Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant and Ray Brassier.

For anyone wanting to go right to the core of Deleuzian philosophy and to experience the challenge of Deleuze's thought, the articles collected in Collapse III will provide a virtually inexhaustible treasury of insights. As the featured authors shed light on this challenge from different points of view, they produce unexpected points of convergence, providing important resources for a more complete conceptual 'portrait' of Deleuze, and suggesting further lines of thought to be investigated. For anyone looking for an alternative to the emerging orthodoxy seemingly bent on broadcasting an 'image of Deleuzian thought', Collapse III provides a wide-ranging but uniformly rigorous and innovative survey of Gilles Deleuze's thought, and an illustration of the fact that, even if it is already fashionable to evoke a 'post-Deleuzian' era, we have not yet begun to draw the properly philosophical consequences of this thought.


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Cesare Casarino - The Expression of Time: Deleuze, Spinoza, Cinema - abstract 2011

Cesare Casarino (Minnesota) ‘The Expression of Time: Deleuze, Spinoza, Cinema’

This essay will argue that Baruch Spinoza’s thought constitutes the conceptual foundation of Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 (thereby diverging from existing scholarship that identifies Henri Bergson’s thought as foundational for Deleuze’s understanding of the cinema). In particular, this essay argues that in these two works Deleuze deploys and re-elaborates his earlier interpretations of Spinoza and especially of the concept of “expression” (in Expressionism in Philosophy as well as in Logic of Sense), so as to produce at once a non-representational theory of the cinema as well as a Spinozian theory of time.