Category Archives: Gilles Deleuze

Next year’s teaching

Yesterday was largely spent on administrative things at Durham. It feels very early to be planning teaching for the 2011/12 academic year, down to which lectures in which weeks and trying to ensure teaching doesn’t clash with the 2012 Association … Continue reading

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Another Leibniz

I’m continuing to read and think on Leibniz, as a parallel interest to other things I’m doing. I’ve just read Glenn A. Hartz, Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals (Routledge, 2007; paperback 2010). From the book’s publicity Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was … Continue reading

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Speculative Medievalisms

I spent yesterday at the Speculative Medievalisms workshop at King’s College, London. I’d left it late to reserve a place, not knowing if I could make it, and it was full. But fortunately a space opened up for me. It … Continue reading

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Graham Harman writing news

He reports here how he’s finished the book on Meillassoux, has a new piece in Cosmos and History, and talks about where he is going next: My next book project, which I cannot begin until the January holiday period, will be … Continue reading

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Moretti on Deleuze & Guattari and Derrida

In a hundred-odd pages, the book by Deleuze and Guattari [Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature] contains a truly impressive amount of nonsense; just the opposite, to be fair, of Derrida’s essay on Ulysses, which in the same number of pages … Continue reading

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Forthcoming Jakob von Uexküll translation

Jakob von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (together with his A Theory of Meaning) is coming out in a new English translation. Details here and here Von Uexküll is probably best known as someone who is … Continue reading

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