Category Archives: Gilles Deleuze

Three letters from Bergson to Deleuze

At the CIEPFC site, three letters from Bergson to Deleuze (in French), originally published in Critique in 2008 – thanks to John Protevi for the link. [Update: I should have realised this from the dates, but these are a fabrication – Bergson died when … Continue reading

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Campbell and Sitze, Biopolitics: A Reader – introduction available online

This looks a useful resource – Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, Biopolitics; A Reader. The introduction is available online here. This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social … Continue reading

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On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail at critical-theory.com

Thomas Nail is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. His most recent book is Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo from Edinburgh University Press. You can read the first fifty pages of that book here. Nail … Continue reading

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences – reviewed by Todd May

John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences is reviewed by Todd May at NDPR.

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The Funambulist Pamphlets

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading

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Deleuze, Lefebvre, Gadamer, Dworkin, Gandhi, Churchill

Some interesting company in the Bloomsbury Revelations series…

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French Television Coverage of Foucault’s Death

Never seen these before – thanks to Clare at Foucault News for the links. French Television Coverage of Michel Foucault in 1984 (pt 1) French Television Coverage of Michel Foucault in 1984 (pt 2)

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Foucault – Lectures on the Will to Know

Graham Burchell’s transiton of Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know is scheduled for publication in June 2013 (via Foucault News). You can read my review of the French text at Berfrois. Here’s the publisher blurb: This volume gives us … Continue reading

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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading

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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading

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