Tag: Deleuze

Free Download Paulo de Assis, "Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research "
English | ISBN: 9462702543 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 14 MB
The concept of assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing, analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human practices, and nonhuman arrangements, "assemblage" is variously applied today in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages focuses on the concept’s uses, transpositions, and appropriations in the arts, bringing together the voices of artists and philosophers that have been working on and with this topic for many years with those of emerging scholar-practitioners. The volume embraces exciting new and reconceived artistic practices that discuss and challenge existing assemblages, propose new practices within given assemblages, and seek to invent totally unprecedented assemblages.

Free Download Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger, "Deleuze, Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood "
English | ISBN: 1474476082 | 2022 | 184 pages | EPUB | 370 KB
Andrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze’s significantly under-discussed interpretation of Søren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral judgment and selfhood based on stable, substance-orientated forms of identity. Starting from their common rejection of these categories of moral judgement, and looking at their shared projects of ethics as fundamentally a matter of becoming who one is, Jampol-Petzinger argues for a conception of normativity that privileges ideas of growth and self-overcoming while also recognizing the importance and need for values adequate to leading a liveable life.

Free Download Deleuze’s Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics By Ronald Bogue
2007 | 173 Pages | ISBN: 075466032X | PDF | 2 MB
Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze’s philosophy, this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze’s approach to the arts through detailed analysis of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.Bogue examines Deleuze’s "transverse way" of interrelating the ethical and the aesthetic, the transverse way being both a mode of thought and a practice of living. Among the issues examined are those of the relationship of music to literature, the political vocation of the arts, violence in popular music, the ethics and aesthetics of education, the use of music and sound in film, the role of the visual in literary invention, the function of the arts in cross cultural interactions, and the future of Deleuzian analysis as a means of forming an open, reciprocally self-constituting, transcultural global culture.

Free Download Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment By Jeffrey A. Bell
2009 | 169 Pages | ISBN: 0748634398 | PDF | 1 MB
This book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. Jeffrey Bell argues that Deleuze’s early work on Hume was instrumental to Deleuze’s formulation of the problems and concepts that would remain the focus of his entire corpus. Reading Deleuze’s work in light of Hume’s influence, along with a comparison of Deleuze’s work with William James, Henri Bergson, and others, sets the stage for a vigorous defence of his philosophy against a number of recent criticisms. It also extends the field of Deleuze studies by showing how Deleuze’s thought can clarify and contribute to the work being done in political theory, cultural studies and history, particularly the history of the Scottish Enlightenment. By engaging Deleuze’s thought with the work of Hume, this book clarifies and supports the work of Deleuze and exemplifies the continuing relevance of Hume’s thought to a number of contemporary debates.

Free Download Deleuze and History By Jerrey A. Bell (ed.), Claire Colebrook (ed.)
2009 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 0748636080 | PDF | 2 MB
Despite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze’s work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze’s relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze’s philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze’s philosophy to historical method, Deleuze’s own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.

Free Download Deleuze and Guattari: A Psychoanalytic Itinerary By Fadi Abou-Rihan
2008 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 1847063713 | PDF | 2 MB
Most commentators judge Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus as either a Medusa into whose face psychoanalysis cannot but stare and suffer the most abominable of deaths or a well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided flash in the pan. Fadi Abou-Rihan shows that, as much as it is an insightful critique of the assimilationist vein in psychoanalysis, Anti-Oedipus remains fully committed to Freud’s most singular discovery of an unconscious that is procedural and dynamic. Moreover, Abou-Rihan argues, the anti-oedipal project is a practice where the science of the unconscious is made to obey the laws it attributes to its object.The outcome is nothing short of the "becoming-unconscious" of psychoanalysis, a becoming that signals neither the repression nor the death of the practice but the transformation of its principles and procedures into those of its object. Abou-Rihan tracks this becoming alongside Nietzsche, Winnicott, Feynman, Bardi, and Cixous in order to reconfigure desire beyond the categories of subject, lack, and tragedy. Firmly grounded in continental philosophy and psychoanalytic practice, this book extends the anti-oedipal view on the unconscious in a wholly new direction.

Free Download Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature By Jean-Jacques Lecercle
2010 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 0748638008 | PDF | 2 MB
Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Anyone who reads contemporary European philosophers has to ask such questions. Lecercle demonstrates that philosophers need literature, as much as literary critics need philosophy: it is an exercise not in the philosophy of literature, where literature is a mere object of analysis, but in philosophy and literature, a heady and unusual mix.

Free Download Deleuze and race By Jason Michael Adams; Arun Saldanha
2013 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 0748669582 | PDF | 2 MB
Deleuze and Guattari had extremely original things to say about race, and the politics of phenotype and origin is never far from any engaged consideration of how the world works. In this volume, an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars inaugurates the Deleuzian study of race through a wide-ranging and evocative array of case studies.

Free Download Jian Xu, "Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming"
English | ISBN: 1498595499 | 2024 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 854 KB + 2 MB
Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in China’s literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in "pure literature" subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of "pure literature" analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuze’s creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuze’s philosophy and Chinese "pure literature," Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese "pure literature." Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help "pure literature" become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.

Free Download Jakob A Nilsson, "Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville: Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media"
English | ISBN: 1474499988 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 11 MB
As the spread of knowledge and even theory becomes an increasingly audiovisual affair, how can philosophy adapt in ways that develop – rather than dilute – philosophical rigor and specificity? How can philosophy harness the potential of audiovisual media – being more formally multidimensional than text-only – to conceptualize with greater precision and depth?