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    Category: Deleuze (and Guattari, sometimes)

    • From Discipline to Control to “Please Hold while I transfer your call”

        In a famous essay, Deleuze suggests that our society has moved beyond Foucauldian disciplinary power to a more fluid “control society,” where the various sites of disciplinary control merge into a modulated network of interlocking sites of power, the primary technique of which is access control.  As Deleuze notes, the move is “dispersive,” and…

    • Mind the Gap: Hume meets Spinoza

      As I concluded the previous post, I argued that the Deleuzian extension of Hume’s project entailed both the affirmation of monism (Spinoza) and multiplicity (Hume). This point is made crystal clear in A Thousand Plateaus when Deleuze and Guattari announce that “pluralism = monism” (ATP, p. 20; see this earlier post where I discuss this theme in the context of William James’ radical…

    • Strange Encounters

      I haven't posted in quite a while, but it seems like it might be time for another continental connections post (this is also cross-posted at my own blog). One of my favorite passages from Hume actually occurs twice – in the Treatise and the Enquiry. This is the passage where Hume offers up the example of the man…

    • Commonalities: A review of Jeremy Gilbert’s Common Ground

      Full disclosure: I met Jeremy Gilbert at a Deleuze conference in Wales in the summer of 2008. He gave an interesting paper on Deleuze, Guattari, and Gramsci and I ended up talking to him at pub. The conversation was one of shared interests that went beyond Deleuze, it was a Deleuze conference after all, to…

    • 2014 will be breakout year for Continental Philosophy’s return to metaphysics

      As an outsider I've been fascinated by watching continental philosophers shake off many of the neo-Kantian aspects of phenomenology in the same way that analytic philosophers earlier shook off many of the (sometimes identical!) neo-Kantian aspects of logical positivism. What's fascinated me most these past few years is the way in which lessons, themes, and…