De-founding AO

(excerpt from a forthcoming publication on the 50th anniversary of Anti-Oedipus) Perhaps, this is the core of AO’s challenge to fascism. We can refer to this challenge in its most potent sense: the microfascism of the reproduction of Oedipal desire beyond the confines of the family. AO’s task is to remand the custody of Oedipus … Continue reading De-founding AO

Once again, on the death of the World, or why humans have no future

The death of the world, as Andrew Culp introduces in his book Dark Deleuze, no longer insinuates into the phenomena of the death of God and the death of Man: both terms God and Man retain their anthropocentric images, dogmatic images of thought, in Nietzschean and Deleuzian terms. As Culp argues, the death of the World, … Continue reading Once again, on the death of the World, or why humans have no future

THE DELEUZE-SCHELLING CONJUNCTION

As to how nature becomes conceivable by its finite manifestations, or how nature is thought negatively, the task of the philosophy of nature, in a Deleuzean sense, is to deterritorialize a concept of nature known to reason. The difference between the idea of the cosmos and that of the earth is an excellent example to … Continue reading THE DELEUZE-SCHELLING CONJUNCTION

Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world. — Read on http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4600-bifo-diary-of-the-psycho-deflation Once a virus as lethal as this is seized by a mechanism of capture, a body organization in forced quarantine, for instance, it mutates into a semiotic gangrene whose effect on the already deterritorialized nerve system, the brain … Continue reading Verso

Mapping A People to Come

Between a desert island as a mythical concept of origin (Deleuze, 2004) and what Deleuze described (later, with Guattari) as a fluent space of composition, independent of “any determined path” (1987: 371), comes a concept of a people that literature alone commands a power to invoke; a people producing itself as force producing new lines … Continue reading Mapping A People to Come