• Deviant Gestures: Deleuze’s Communicative Disruption

    For Deleuze, the creation and conveyance of meaning requires not a strict fidelity to an original idea, message or image but rather its deformation. The forces causing such disfigurations operate in gesture, vocalisation and text, with one level sometimes disrupting the others. Among them, gesture plays an especially important role, given Deleuze’s attention to bodily…

  • Dancing with the Waves: Deleuze’s Concept of Spinozistic Rhythm

    Dancing with the Waves:Deleuze’s Concept of Spinozistic Rhythm (Thanks wiki) What does Spinozistic rhythm got to do with you? Our lives are filled with our relations with the world and other people. We are continually responding and reacting to what goes on around us, and these events might change us profoundly. And often we need…

  • However, it seems uncertain—if not highly doubtful—that all those with an in-fluence on the future, especially those with fossil fuel interests, will firstly comprehend projected time, then feel inclined to adopt it, and on top of that, coordinate with everyone else in a way that ultimately works to their detriment. Realizing this could prove to…

  • What Is It Like To Become a Rat? Animal Phenomenology through Uexküll and Deleuze & Guattari

    We respond to a phenomenological challenge set forth in Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like  To Be a Bat?,” namely, to seek a method for obtaining a phenomenological description of non-humananimal experience faithful to an animal’s first-person subjective perspective. First, we examine “translational” strategies employing empathy and communication with animals. Then we turn to a…

  •  Resonance and Phenomena: Sensations of Intensity  

    Deleuze is sometimes labeled an anti-phenomenologist. And in fact we find him at times openly critical of phenomenology. This does not mean Deleuze was uninterested in phenomenal appearances. In fact, we might find that he does betterto account for the phenomenality of phenomena. So instead of phenomenology’s motto, “back to the things themselves,” Deleuze would…

  • From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze

    Corry Shores and Meli̇ke Başak Yalçın 0 Introduction Shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze discovered a new kind of music: glitch, in particular, Oval’s Systemisch. [Achim] Szepanski contacted Deleuze himself, sending material by Oval and other Mille Plateaux artists, and asking if he’d write an essay for Achim’s planned anthology of techno theory, Maschinelle Strategeme.…

  • The Logic of Gilles Deleuze Basic Principles – Introduction

    The main purpose of this book is to formulate the basic principles of Gilles Deleuze’s logic by means of the concepts and tools made available by contemporary logics. In particular, we consider the potential applicability of Fuzzy, intuitionistic, and many-valued logics for this purpose, in conjunction with their corresponding philosophical stances (for instance, monoletheism, dialetheism,…