Category Archives: Gilles Deleuze

Paul Mason on the recent global unrest

Posted on February 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Newsnight’s Paul Mason offers some generalisations on the recent global unrest here. He stresses the importance of social media, the decline of ideologies, the role of women, the importance of memes, and so on. Mentions Foucault, Chomsky, Hardt and Negri, … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Politics, teaching, Territory | Leave a comment

Next year’s teaching

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, teaching | Leave a comment

Another Leibniz

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

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

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Conferences, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Graham Harman, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, Quentin Meillassoux | 2 Comments

Graham Harman writing news

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Franco Moretti, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

Forthcoming Jakob von Uexküll translation

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Jakob von Uexküll, Martin Heidegger, Uncategorized | 2 Comments