Monthly Archives: July 2016

AMBIGUITY I wish to give a reading of “A l’écrit bâté”, a dense enigmatic poetic text by Jean-François Lyotard, belonging to his “later” period. It is quite short, only twenty paragraphs, and is published in Lyotard’s posthumous book MISÈRE DE … Continue reading →

1) OPPOSITION, RESISTANCE I neither forget nor excuse any of Badiou’s “militant” mafia tactics in disrupting Deleuze’s seminar and setting himself up as judge in a caricature of a tribunal of the people. My current attitude towards Badiou has evolved … Continue reading →

Badiou published only one letter (translated here) from that correspondence. Deleuze was very exacting, perhaps even tyrannical with his texts, refusing interviews, repeating some formulations of key concepts almost word for word for decades. It is regrettable regret that he … Continue reading →

We are all OK, family and friends. Usually we go and watch the fireworks every year on Bastille Day, at less than ten minutes walk from our home. Exceptionally, last night we decided to stay home, a lucky decision as … Continue reading →

Much of what Deleuze and Guattari say in WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? about the many threats to philosophy can be applied to schools and movements that came after their demise. An interesting supplement to their discussion of these threats is provided … Continue reading →

Gilles Deleuze’s “Letter To A Severe Critic” is one of his richest and most beautiful texts. It can be seen as a theoretical and practical treatise on alterity, so it is only fitting that Zizek misreads it, and Deleuze’s work … Continue reading →

The theme of my blog is pluralism and individuation in a world of becoming. Recently I have spelled that out in terms of a metaphysical research programme whose heuristic core is an open, immanent, pluralist, processual (diachronic), apophatic, democratic ontology. … Continue reading →