Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. 

Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and is the author of Essays on Deleuze. He is also the co-director of The Deleuze Seminars project.

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Daniel W. Smith - Deleuze's The Fold

The European game having finally ended, at least so he thought, Frantz Fanon argued in The Wretched of the Earth that "we today can do everything". In this lecture Mbembe reflects on the dialectics of the end/closure and boundless possibility evoked by Fanon and the ways it is played out under contemporary conditions. Using South Africa as a starting point, he will also assess the place contemporary struggles for emancipation assign to the key Fanonian concepts of time, creation and reconstitution and the extent to which they truly transcend the law of repetition, which he foresaw as the biggest threat to difference and newness.

Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor in the Romance Studies Department and the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. More information can be found at http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu.

Introduction: Judith Butler, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Difference and Repetition: Reflections on the Current Political Moment | Achille Mbembe | 12/7/12

This week Cooper and Taylor were joined by Michael Ardoline to discuss his upcoming book, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity. Michael received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2021. His main research is in metaphysics, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of physics and mathematics. He has published articles on the epistemology of natural laws, Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysics, and comparative philosophy between the continental and Confucian traditions.

Michael's Links:

Book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deleuze-mathematics-metaphysics.html

https://www.lsu.edu/hss/prs/people/current-fac-pages/ardoline.php

Michael Ardoline - Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity

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the cock

difference, repetition

on the side of being

I introduce the thought of Gilles Deleuze through his 1968 book, Difference and Repetition. I look at Deleuze's basic concepts - especially difference, repetition and the virtual; his relationship to philosophers like Spinoza and Kant; and how he provides some of the ontological foundations for other 'poststructural' or postmodern theorists like Foucault and Derrida.

I also look at the relationship between the virtual, the Idea and the multiplicity - all important concepts for understanding the rest of Deleuze's work. This introduction should serve to give a fuller understanding of ideas like the Rhizome, the haecceity and 'lines of flight' that are a large part of his later work with Félix Guattari - a Thousand Plateaus. Most importantly, I try to make understanding Deleuze as simple as possible!

Introduction to Deleuze: Difference and Repetition

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