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Call for Papers
The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze
Conference at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
November 3-4, 2005
One of the prominent themes in the writings of Gilles Deleuze is an
understanding of thinking as being alive. Thinking is conceived as an
affirmation of life, and life itself is affirmed by thinking as something
that is alive. In other words, the relationship between life and thinking is
an affirmative relationship, in which life is affirmed by thinking and
thinking affirmed by life. The notion of the double affirmation in Nietzsche
et la philosophie (1962) is revolving around such an affirmative
relationship between life and thinking.
The affirmative relationship between life and thinking is further elaborated
in the books on Proust et les signes (1964) and Le bergsonisme (1966). In
these books Deleuze explores the affirmative relationship between life and
thinking through the lense of temporality. The temporality of the
affirmation is primarily described in two modes: the proustian
apprenticeship of signs as an ongoing becoming, as a number of leaps and
revelations, is organized from the viewpoint of a future, whereas the
bergsonian notions of duration, memory and élan vital accentuates a
relationship to the past.
It can be argued that the double affirmation of life and thinking is one of
the basic themes in Différence et répétition (1968). In fact, Deleuze
presents the reader with a conception of life as a multitude of differential
relationships between immanent forces, and thinking in the affirmative mode
is described as a number of temporal syntheses and repetitions. In this
respect we can rearticulate the complex notions of difference and repetition
as they are presented by Deleuze as a philosophical portrait of living
thought.
The collaboration between Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari introduces,
among other aspects, an experimental and subversive dimension. The critique
of psychoanalysis in L?Anti-?dipe (1972) encompasses at least two
dimensions: a specific critique of a certain French psychoanalysis in the
early 1970s, and a more general critique of a mode of thinking that
willingly or unwillingly tries to domesticate life. In Mille plateaux (1980)
the authors present the reader with a number of critical models, ranging
from the rhizome to the nomadic machine, all of which contain a certain
potential for an affirmative and experimental thinking. If L?Anti-?dipe
criticizes thinking in the mode of negativity, then Mille Plateaux creates a
number of critical models for an affirmative thinking.
The books on cinema returns to a number of earlier themes in the writings of
Gilles Deleuze: the apprenticeship of signs, difference and repetition, the
temporality of affirmation... The history of cinema is described as an
apprenticeship of moving and temporal signs, and the notion of the
crystalline image, for instance, rearticulates the problem of how to
introduce time in thinking. The books are not simply applied philosophy, but
rather an attempt to articulate the experience of living images in terms of
thought: an empiricism of the cinema.
However, it is probably in the book on Foucault (1986) that Deleuze most
clearly outlines his understanding of living thought. His general
description of Foucault?s writings is guided by two questions: What is ?the
middle? or the constant element in the thought of Foucault? What is the
element that Foucault and Deleuze have in common? The response to both of
these questions is concentrated in a notion of living thought, or in other
words a philosophical vitalism.
In Qu?est-ce que la philosophie? (1991) the authors further elaborate the
understanding of living thought by describing it as a creative thinking:
philosophy as creation of concepts, science as creation of functions, art as
creation of affects and percepts. This notion of thinking as a creation of
different entities - concepts, functions, affects and percepts - is a
continuation of the nietzschean notion of a double affirmation between life
and thinking. Between these two notions there is a wide variety of
manifestations and critical expositions of living thought in the writings of
Gilles Deleuze.
The conference on The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze is held on the
occasion of the 10th anniversary of the voluntary death of Gilles Deleuze.
However, it is not simply our intentions to commemorate the death of a
philosopher, but more importantly to explore and celebrate the thoughts of
Gilles Deleuze as very much alive today.
The conference will be held November 3-4, 2005, at the University of
Copenhagen, Denmark, and is organized and coordinated in collaboration
between the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Business School. The
language at the conference will be English. With the exception of keynote
speakers, whom will be announced shortly, each of the presentations at the
conference will be limited to 20 minutes in order to facilitate a commentary
session regarding each paper. It is planned that the papers at the
conference will be published afterwards in an anthology.
Proposals for papers, including a short academical biography, must be
submitted by January 15th 2005 to the organizers at kimsu@xxxxxxxxx and the
notification regarding acceptance will be announced by February 15th 2005.
For further information, please contact the organizers:
Associate professor
Martin Fuglsang
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
Blaagaardsgade 23B
DK 2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
Phone: (+45) 3815 2813
Email: fuglsang@xxxxxx
Assistant research professor
Kim Su Rasmussen
Department of Cultural Studies and the Arts,
Comparative Literature and Studies in Modern Culture
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 140-142, Building 25.5
DK 2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Phone: (+45) 3532 9269
Email: kimsu@xxxxxxxxx
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Best,
Kim Su Rasmussen
Call for Papers
The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze
Conference at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
November 3-4, 2005
One of the prominent themes in the writings of Gilles Deleuze is an
understanding of thinking as being alive. Thinking is conceived as an
affirmation of life, and life itself is affirmed by thinking as something
that is alive. In other words, the relationship between life and thinking is
an affirmative relationship, in which life is affirmed by thinking and
thinking affirmed by life. The notion of the double affirmation in Nietzsche
et la philosophie (1962) is revolving around such an affirmative
relationship between life and thinking.
The affirmative relationship between life and thinking is further elaborated
in the books on Proust et les signes (1964) and Le bergsonisme (1966). In
these books Deleuze explores the affirmative relationship between life and
thinking through the lense of temporality. The temporality of the
affirmation is primarily described in two modes: the proustian
apprenticeship of signs as an ongoing becoming, as a number of leaps and
revelations, is organized from the viewpoint of a future, whereas the
bergsonian notions of duration, memory and élan vital accentuates a
relationship to the past.
It can be argued that the double affirmation of life and thinking is one of
the basic themes in Différence et répétition (1968). In fact, Deleuze
presents the reader with a conception of life as a multitude of differential
relationships between immanent forces, and thinking in the affirmative mode
is described as a number of temporal syntheses and repetitions. In this
respect we can rearticulate the complex notions of difference and repetition
as they are presented by Deleuze as a philosophical portrait of living
thought.
The collaboration between Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari introduces,
among other aspects, an experimental and subversive dimension. The critique
of psychoanalysis in L?Anti-?dipe (1972) encompasses at least two
dimensions: a specific critique of a certain French psychoanalysis in the
early 1970s, and a more general critique of a mode of thinking that
willingly or unwillingly tries to domesticate life. In Mille plateaux (1980)
the authors present the reader with a number of critical models, ranging
from the rhizome to the nomadic machine, all of which contain a certain
potential for an affirmative and experimental thinking. If L?Anti-?dipe
criticizes thinking in the mode of negativity, then Mille Plateaux creates a
number of critical models for an affirmative thinking.
The books on cinema returns to a number of earlier themes in the writings of
Gilles Deleuze: the apprenticeship of signs, difference and repetition, the
temporality of affirmation... The history of cinema is described as an
apprenticeship of moving and temporal signs, and the notion of the
crystalline image, for instance, rearticulates the problem of how to
introduce time in thinking. The books are not simply applied philosophy, but
rather an attempt to articulate the experience of living images in terms of
thought: an empiricism of the cinema.
However, it is probably in the book on Foucault (1986) that Deleuze most
clearly outlines his understanding of living thought. His general
description of Foucault?s writings is guided by two questions: What is ?the
middle? or the constant element in the thought of Foucault? What is the
element that Foucault and Deleuze have in common? The response to both of
these questions is concentrated in a notion of living thought, or in other
words a philosophical vitalism.
In Qu?est-ce que la philosophie? (1991) the authors further elaborate the
understanding of living thought by describing it as a creative thinking:
philosophy as creation of concepts, science as creation of functions, art as
creation of affects and percepts. This notion of thinking as a creation of
different entities - concepts, functions, affects and percepts - is a
continuation of the nietzschean notion of a double affirmation between life
and thinking. Between these two notions there is a wide variety of
manifestations and critical expositions of living thought in the writings of
Gilles Deleuze.
The conference on The Living Thought of Gilles Deleuze is held on the
occasion of the 10th anniversary of the voluntary death of Gilles Deleuze.
However, it is not simply our intentions to commemorate the death of a
philosopher, but more importantly to explore and celebrate the thoughts of
Gilles Deleuze as very much alive today.
The conference will be held November 3-4, 2005, at the University of
Copenhagen, Denmark, and is organized and coordinated in collaboration
between the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Business School. The
language at the conference will be English. With the exception of keynote
speakers, whom will be announced shortly, each of the presentations at the
conference will be limited to 20 minutes in order to facilitate a commentary
session regarding each paper. It is planned that the papers at the
conference will be published afterwards in an anthology.
Proposals for papers, including a short academical biography, must be
submitted by January 15th 2005 to the organizers at kimsu@xxxxxxxxx and the
notification regarding acceptance will be announced by February 15th 2005.
For further information, please contact the organizers:
Associate professor
Martin Fuglsang
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
Blaagaardsgade 23B
DK 2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
Phone: (+45) 3815 2813
Email: fuglsang@xxxxxx
Assistant research professor
Kim Su Rasmussen
Department of Cultural Studies and the Arts,
Comparative Literature and Studies in Modern Culture
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 140-142, Building 25.5
DK 2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Phone: (+45) 3532 9269
Email: kimsu@xxxxxxxxx
_________________________________________________________________
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