The question what is philosophy? can perhaps be posed only late in life [. . .] in a moment of quiet restlessness, at midnight, when there is
Category: Deleuze
Reading Žižek, Reading Deleuze: The Cruelties (?) of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
In his short book, How to Read Lacan (2007), Slavoj Žižek writes, as I’m sure he does in several other places, According to the standard view, the dimension
Deleuze on Teaching Solitary Happiness (L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze)
Deleuze tells Clare Parnet (near the end of “P for Professor”) of his preference for “movements” over “schools.” Here is what he says: For me,
Reading Deleuze Reading: Francis Bacon and Franz Kafka
In the final chapter of Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Gilles Deleuze writes: We might assume that the [Baconian] diagram makes us pass from one form
Slow Reading (1.29): Deleuze’s DR (pp. 30-31)
At the end of his prologue to Chapter 1 of DR, Deleuze asks, “Must difference have been ‘mediated’ in order to render it both livable and thinkable?”
Reading Deleuze on Painting (from Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation [1981, trans. 2002])
In Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Deleuze begins the eleventh chapter, “The Painting before Painting,” It is a mistake to think that the painter works on
Sketching a Present 