Adnen Jdey (Ed.) - Gilles Deleuze, la logique du sensible - esthétique et clinique - De l'incidence éditeur (27 Mar 2013)

Ce n’est pas le moindre des mérites de la pensée de Gilles Deleuze que de penser l’individuation de l’art sous le signe d’une logique du sensible où esthétique et clinique sont en présuppositions réciproques. En explorant les coupes et les tensions névralgiques qui irriguent cette logique, les études ici réunies trouvent leur commune impulsion dans le souci de remettre en chantier la cartographie deleuzienne des arts, et d’interroger les écarts et les résonances internes qui l’animent. La spécificité de cet ouvrage est de croiser non seulement des lectures d’éminents spécialistes de la philosophie de Gilles Deleuze, venant sonder à nouveaux frais son rapport singulier aux variations du sensible, mais aussi des contributions de théoriciens de la théorie littéraire, de la musique, du cinéma ou encore de l’histoire de l’art, réinterrogeant depuis leur point de vue une pensée de la création dont on ne mesure pas encore pleinement la puissance et la fécondité.

Le livre comprend en outre un texte inédit de Gilles Deleuze, sur Francis Bacon.


Ouvrage publié sous la direction de Adnen Jdey
avec des textes de : Arnaud Villani, Claude Imbert, Véronique Bergen, Fabien Tarby, Philippe Mengue, Anne Sauvagnargues, Stéphane Chaudier, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Suzanne Hême de Lacotte, Jean-Claude Dumoncel, Bruno Heuzé, Lambert Dousson, Jehanne Dautrey, Pierre Montebello, Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, François Zourabichvili, Fabrice Bourlez, Christian Ruby, Eric Alliez et Adnen Jdey.

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Julia Meier - Die Tiefe der Oberfläche: David Lynch - Gilles Deleuze - Francis Bacon - Kulturverlag Kadmos (Feb 2013)

In "Die Tiefe der Oberfläche" werden interdisziplinär die Filme von David Lynch untersucht. Hierzu dient die Philosophie von Gilles Deleuze sowie die Malerei von Francis Bacon, um anhand der komplexen Strukturen, der paradoxen Sequenzen und Inhalte sowie der zum Teil nicht chronologischen Handlungsabläufe der Filme Lynchs das topologische Konzept der Oberfläche zu untersuchen.
Es wird der Versuch unternommen, einzelne Filme, Szenen und Sequenzen als Gesamtkörper, eine Art ‚skulpturales Design‘, zu begreifen, die Dimension des Visuellen über die Ebene der Narration zu stellen, und somit der Definition von Film eine neue Lesart anzutragen, die sich deutlich von der linguistisch dominierten Filmtheorie abwendet.
Die narrative Ebene ist die Repräsentation, das heißt die codierte Form des kulturell Normierten und Wiedererkennbaren – das Klischee. Die Loslösung davon erscheint in Form einer Affektlogik, welche die Subjekt-Objekt-Unterscheidung aufhebt, und den Betrachter somit wie Bacon formuliert„ohne Umweg durch das Hirn direkt ins Nervensystem trifft“. Dieses ist der eigentliche ‚gewaltsame‘ Akt, der einen ‚Bewegungsschub‘ in einen neuen Erfahrungsbereich auslöst, und mit Deleuze gesprochen einen genuinen Prozess des Werdens ermöglicht.
Die theoretische Verbindung zwischen den im Zentrum stehenden Filmen Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Lost Highway (1997) und Inland Empire (2006), bildet das Konzept der sensuellen Wahrnehmung, welches Deleuze vorrangig in Bezug auf das Werk Francis Bacons in Francis Bacon: Logik der Sensation definiert.
Die verschiedenen Aspekte der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen verdeutlichen, dass die Malerei Bacons und die Filme Lynchs trotz ihrer gegensätzlichen Medien im Wesentlichen dieselbe Logik der Sensation besitzen. Beide verfolgen die Kreation der Figur (Lyotard), um dem Figurativen zu entkommen.

Julia Meier, Dr. phil., ist Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaftlerin. Sie lehrte an der Stony Brook University, New York, der Leibniz Universität Hannover sowie der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg und arbeitete als Kuratorin für zeitgenössische Kunst in der Kestnergesellschaft Hannover. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen an den Schnittstellen von Literatur, Kunst, Film, Musik, Philosophie, Mode und Popkultur.

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Video Recordings @ Between Deleuze and Foucault Conference at Purdue University November 30 – December 1, 2012

Conference Schedule

Between Deleuze and Foucault

Conference at Purdue University
November 30 – December 1, 2012

List of Presentations (20 min presentation + 20min Q&A per paper)

All regular sessions will be held at the West Faculty Lounge in the Purdue Memorial Union.
Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
The plenary address on Friday afternoon will take place in Krannert Auditorium in Krannert Hall.

[Click on links below to view video recordings of proceedings]. 

We would like to thank Andrew J. Iliadis for his help in recording the presentations at the conference.

Friday  - Nov 30^th 8:45 am – 9:15 am: Continental Breakfast (provided)
9:15 am – 9:30 am Opening Remarks: Daniel Smith 
9:30 am - 10:50 am Session 1 - Method and Critique     Moderator: Nicolae Morar
    9:30 am – 10:10 am Colin Koopman - Critical Problematization in F & D: The Force of Critique w/out Judgment
    10:10 am – 10:50 am Alain Beaulieu – Foucault and Deleuze as Symptomatologists
    10:50 am -11:10 am Coffee Break

11:10 am - 12:30 pm Session 2 – Philosophy as an Activity: From Difference to the Present    Moderator: Ladelle McWhorter
    11:10 am – 11:50 am L. Lawlor & J. Scholtz - Speaking Out For Others: Philosophy’s Activity in D&F (& H)
Q&A Session
    11:50 am – 12:30 pm Dianna Taylor – Ontology of Difference, Ontology of the Present
Q&A Session

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch (provided)

2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Session 3 – Archeology, Genealogy, and Politics      Moderator: Thomas Nail
    2:00 pm – 2:40 pm Kevin Thompson – Foucault & The Image of Thought
Q&A Session
    2:40 pm – 3:20 pm Chris Penfield - D & F’s Block of Becoming: toward a Theory of Transversal Politics
Q&A Session
    3:20 pm – 3:40 pm Coffee Break

3:40 pm - 5:00 pm Session 4 – Desire, Pleasure, and Power     Moderator: Daniel Smith
    3:40 pm – 4:20 pm Thomas Nail – Biopower and Control Societies
Q&A Session
    4:20 pm – 5:00 pm Nicolae Morar – The Pleasure-Desire Problem
Q&A Session 

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Break

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Plenary Session: Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Hall    Introduction: Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University
    Plenary Address: William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
Q&A Session 

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner at Bistro 501 restaurant 

Saturday (Dec 1st) 8:45 am – 9:30 pm: Continental Breakfast (provided)

9:30 am - 10:50 pm Session 5 - The Legacy of Hegel and Marx     Moderator: Todd May
    9:30 am – 10:10 am Tom Flynn - Specialized Reasoning versus the French Hegel: Foucault and Deleuze
    10:10 am – 10:50 am Roberto Nigro - Marx' Legacy in Foucault and Deleuze.
    10:50 am -11:10 am Coffee Break

11:10 am - 12:30 pm Session 6 – Method and Critique    Moderator: Alan Schrift
    11:10 am – 11:50 am Anne Sauvagnargues – Conditions, Diagrams, and Forms
Q&A Session
    11:50 am – 12:30 pm John Protevi - Foucault’s Deleuzean Methodology of the Late 1970s
Q&A Session 

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch (provided)

2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Session 7 – Time, Technology, and Resistance    Moderator: William McBride
    2:00 pm – 2:40 pm Marco Altamirano –Deleuze and Foucault on Time and Technology
Q&A Session
    2:40 pm – 3:20 pm Daniel Smith – Two Concepts of Resistance
Q&A Session 

3:20 pm – 3:45 pm Coffee Break

3:45 pm – 5:45 pm Roundtable 
    Speakers: Todd May, Ladelle McWhorter, Alan Schrift; Chair (and participant): Alan Rosenberg (Part 1)
Roundtable Part 2 

Closing Remarks: William McBride

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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.

Luciana Parisi - Abstract Sex Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire - Continuum, Uk, 2004

Abstract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. 
Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. 

Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.

Luciana Parisi: Senior Lecturer/Convenor of PhD Cultural Studies

“'...Her vision, and it is a vision, is literally a molecular one in which sex is instantiated in any number of biologically, cultutally and technologically define assemblages...Abstract Sex does a good job of developing a productive critique of the anthropomorphic assumptions of much theorising about sex and gender and its technique of magnifying the place of sex and reproduction onto every stratum of nature-culture is a useful reminder of the relatively limited place of human sex across life forms.'” – Andrew Goffey,

“"I deeply appreciate Parisi's vigorous and unapologetic engagement with scientific theories and evidence." -Myra J. Hird, Feminist Studies, Vol. 35, Summer 2009” – 

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Dr Luciana Parisi’s research looks at the asymmetric relationship between science and philosophy, aesthetics and culture, technology and politics to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change.  Her work on cybernetics and information theories, evolutionary theories, genetic coding and viral transmission has informed her analysis of culture and politics, the critique of capitalism, power and control. During the late 90s she worked with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick and has since been writing with Steve Goodman (aka kode 9). In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press), where she departed from the critical impasse between notions of the body, sexuality, gender on the one hand, and studies of science and technologies on the other. Her work engaged with ontological and epistemological transformations entangled to the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies, which un-intentionally re-articulated models of evolutions, questioning dominant conceptions of sex, femininity and desire.  Since the publication of Abstract Sex, she has also written on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by new media, on the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and on the nanoengineering of matter.  She has published articles about the relation between cybernetic machines, memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media and in relation to emerging strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. She is currently writing on architectural modeling and completing a monograph: Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space  (MIT Press, April 2013).

Luciana Parisi - Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics and Space - MIT Press, Usa, April 2013

In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for "modes of thought" exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world -- from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture -- the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world.

Luciana Parisi is a Senior Lecturer and runs the MA program in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.

“The thrill of this volume lies in its sustained pursuit of the problem of chance, randomness, and noncomputability as core dynamics in digital media. Its brilliantly heterodox take on computation allows Contagious Architecture to develop a groundbreaking account of algorithms and software, an account that puts debates about prediction and control in computational cultures on a much more exciting footing.”
—Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University; author of Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures

“In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi gives us a sense of space beyond spatiality, showing us an architecture in which the fixed is fluid—an evocative and rigorous study whose scope exceeds traditional disciplinary boundaries.”
—Eugene Thacker, School of Media Studies, The New School; author of The Global Genome

“Contagious Architecture is the antidote to the cyclical trend of Auguste Comte’s neopositivistic ‘order of discourse.’ By restoring the whole spectrum of languages, the multiple whispering in computation’s Tower of Babel, Luciana Parisi introduces contingencies, the ‘one thousand plateaus,’ as a factor of knowledge—rid of its deterministic and intrinsic nature of control—to release its consequences as well as its presuppositions.”
—François Roche, architect

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Dr Luciana Parisi’s research looks at the asymmetric relationship between science and philosophy, aesthetics and culture, technology and politics to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change.  Her work on cybernetics and information theories, evolutionary theories, genetic coding and viral transmission has informed her analysis of culture and politics, the critique of capitalism, power and control. During the late 90s she worked with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick and has since been writing with Steve Goodman (aka kode 9). In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press), where she departed from the critical impasse between notions of the body, sexuality, gender on the one hand, and studies of science and technologies on the other. Her work engaged with ontological and epistemological transformations entangled to the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies, which un-intentionally re-articulated models of evolutions, questioning dominant conceptions of sex, femininity and desire.  Since the publication of Abstract Sex, she has also written on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by new media, on the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and on the nanoengineering of matter.  She has published articles about the relation between cybernetic machines, memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media and in relation to emerging strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. She is currently writing on architectural modeling and completing a monograph: Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space  (MIT Press, April 2013).

Nicholas Thoburn: The Strangest Cult: Material Forms of the Political Book through Deleuze and Guattari @ Deleuze Studies, February 2013

Nicholas Thoburn: The Strangest Cult: Material Forms of the Political Book through Deleuze and Guattari @ Deleuze Studies, February 2013
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This article investigates the complex object of the political book. Mobilising Deleuze and Guattari's typology of the book, the article assesses the material properties of four specific books (or sets of books): Mao Zedong's ‘Little Red Book’, Russian Futurist books, Antonin Artaud's paper ‘spells’, and Guy Debord and Asger Jorn's ‘anti-book’Mémoires. Highly critical of the dominant mode of the political book, what they call the ‘root-book’, Deleuze and Guattari draw attention to the troubling religious structures and passions that order its field. Here the book internalises the world as the origin and source of truth and authority – a mode of existence as dear to the avant-garde as it is to religious formations: ‘Wagner, Mallarmé, and Joyce, Marx and Freud: still Bibles.’ But the book also features in Deleuze and Guattari's counter-figure of the ‘rhizome-book’, where they foreground the dynamic materiality of this medium: ‘A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.’ The rhizome-book is an enticing concept for assessing the political book, yet Deleuze and Guattari pay little attention to the specific, concrete attributes of this medium. In focusing on the properties of particular books this article seeks to address that absence, and so contribute to an understanding of the political book that is fully engaged with its material forms.