Practising Philosophy
Jon Roffe
Deleuze and Guattari’s answer to the question “what is philosophy?”
is well-known: philosophy is the creation of concepts, along
with its attendant plane of immanence (or image
of thought) and the conceptual personae, from whose point of view
the concept allows us to think. But what is largely absent from
both What is Philosophy? and Deleuze’s work more generally
are refle...
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conference: DARE 2017: aberrant nuptials
date: November 20, 2017
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: plane of immanence
A Cartographic Creativity: Deleuze, Guattari and Deligny Towards New Means of Philosophical Expression
Aline Wiame
Mapping has become a popular and much commented on practice in
social sciences, humanities, and art history. Although mapping is
often used to furnish a global view of an idea or to clarify a
situation, I would like to argue that it can be a much more complex
activity—a “dark precursor” —which escapes usual representation and
touches the core of creative processes whether they are of artis...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: creativity, expression, Félix Guattari, Fernand Deligny, map, neurodiversity, pop, schizophrenia, subject
The Paradoxical Form of Creative Practice: Exploring Deleuze’s Theory of Time in Logic of Sense
Edward Thornton
Deleuze is a philosopher of creation, intent on explaining the
necessary preconditions for the possibility of radical creativity
in all its forms. For Deleuze the problem of creation, and the
connected problem of genesis, is central to his aesthetic,
political, scientific, and purely philosophical theories. This
paper will offer an analysis of the way in which Deleuze clears a
space for the possib...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Kraakhuis
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: C. S. Lewis, chronos, The Logic of Sense, What is the Creative Act?
Eventum Tantum: On the Paradoxes of Sense, Dark Precursors, Quasi-Causes, and the Excessive Rest
Angelika Seppi
Deleuze’s notion of the “dark precursor” makes its first appearance
in Difference and Repetition as that agent or force that
initiates and ensures the communication between two series of
differences. It is thus assigned the task of differentiation as
such and burdened with its own disappearance once the differences
have been differentiated. A certain affiliation with the tradition
a...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: ongoing
venue: Orpheus Institute, Penthouse
format: in absence
practice: philosophy
keywords: actual, becoming, event, possible/possibility, quasi-cause, The Logic of Sense, virtual/virtuality