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Month: August 2017

Teaching Theory, Beginning Theory

August 31, 2017 Benjamin D. Hagen

I’ve looked at (and used) several introductory textbooks to literary and cultural theory over the years. Most of them approach this subject matter in the

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Slow Reading (1.35): Deleuze’s DR (pp. 35-36)

August 12, 2017 Benjamin D. Hagen

The final sentence of Deleuze’s Aristotle section asks, “. . . does not difference as catastrophe precisely bear witness to an irreducible ground which continues

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Deleuze and Spinoza on Ignorance, Learning, and the Body

August 5, 2017 Benjamin D. Hagen

Gilles Deleuze’s preoccupation with (and reverence for) Spinoza is well known among theory heads and students of contemporary philosophy, as is his frequent quotation or paraphrase

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Reading Aloud (#31): D.H. Lawrence’s “The Best of School”

August 3, 2017 Benjamin D. Hagen

The Best of SchoolD.H. Lawrence The blinds are drawn because of the sun,And the boys and the room in a colourless gloomOf underwater float: bright

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