Category Archives: Gilles Deleuze

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft

Posted on February 12, 2026 by stuartelden

The draft of the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve just begun a Fernand Braudel fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. My plan was to come here with a complete draft, and to leave with a better … Continue reading →

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Roland Barthes’s Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth, and the presentations by Marcel Detienne, Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Rosenstiehl

Posted on February 1, 2026 by stuartelden

In 1978-79 Roland Barthes held a seminar at the Collège de France on “The Metaphor of the Labyrinth”. It was another spatial theme, after his discussion of territory and territoriality in Comment Vivre Ensemble/How to Live Together the previous year, which I … Continue reading →

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Roland Barthes and the Question of Territory – Animals, Spaces and Sound

Posted on January 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes only taught at the Collège de France for a short period, from the 1976-77 academic year until shortly before his premature death in early 1980. I was drawn to his lecture courses there for my current work because he sometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in André Leroi-Gourhan, Boundaries, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Music, Noam Chomsky, Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Theory | 2 Comments

Books received – Kristeva, Ryback, Sergent, Ruwet, Deleuze, Serres, Burrin

Posted on January 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but including Michel Serres, Hermes III, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Gilles Deleuze, Sur les lignes de vie. The one without a clear title on the spine is Jean-Claude Ruwet, Introduction to Ethology: The Biology … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026 by stuartelden

A list of academic books I liked published in 2025, or late 2024, or in paperback this year. Many of the books I read this year were published years ago; some of the 2025 ones I’ve bought or have been … Continue reading →

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Books received – Davy, Luyssen, Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss and Dreyfus, Derrida

Posted on December 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Some second-hand or new French books, including Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène, Deleuze’s Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours novembre 1979-mars 1980 and Sur Spinoza, Aux sources de tristes tropiques. Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina … Continue reading →

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Two more Gilles Deleuze courses, ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, 2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by stuartelden

After Sur la peinture in 2023 (translated as On Painting) and Sur Spinoza in 2024, David Lapoujade has edited two more volumes of Gilles Deleuze’s teaching, all with Éditions de Minuit: Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours … Continue reading →

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Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026

Posted on December 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 Thanks to dmf for the link – looks good but expensive, even for the e-book

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

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Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

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