Guattari’s Ecosophy and Nature as Machinic Assemblages: In Reading Literatures and Films by Kobo Abe
Toshiya Ueno
In this paper I will explore Guattari’s tactical idea of ecosophy
(or virtual ecology) as the integrative moment of his itinerary in
both theory and practice. In the mid 1970s Deleuze began using the
term “strange ecology” in the mid 1970s, in his Dialogues
with Claire Parnet, much earlier than Guattari, who began to engage
with the problematics of ecology in the mid 1980s. In refer...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: in words
practice: writing
keywords: assemblage, Dialogues, Félix Guattari, film, Kobo Abe, literature, nuptial, pop, subject
Perversion in Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty
Catarina Pombo Nabais
To understand the way Deleuze thinks about perversion is to
understand the specificity he sees in masochism—its difference from
sadism. It is to understand how he reads Masoch from the critical
point of view, showing that Masoch takes the phantasm as a genuine
double of the world and how literature therefore arises as its
ideal realisation. Sade creates a literature of reason, of the cold
though...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: writing
keywords: Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, literature, Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, phantasm
The Politics of Intimate Grammar: A Literary Symptomatology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Nir Kedem
This presentation is part of an emergent, larger research project
of founding an experimental “literary clinic,” which studies a
diverse body of literary works as both clinical symptoms of and
critical interventions in the ongoing experience of the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The project takes its cue from
Deleuze’s approach to literature, and offers a dynamic theoretical
practice that c...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: writing
keywords: becoming-child, David Grossman, Essays Critical and Clinical, literature, politics, resistance
The Caesura or Break in Time
William Bogard
A “caesura” is conventionally defined as a break in metric time, a
pause where time is not counted. A common device in the arts, but
relevant to all modes of expression involving repetition, the
caesura is said to introduce a “natural feeling” into exact or
“metronomic” time. This is the active sense of the
caesura, where it functions as a conscious device that reflects the
rh...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: writing
keywords: affect, becoming-intense, chronos, repetition, rhythm