Hermetic Deleuze

Contra Deleuze: Latour’s Disputes

While I have read everything of Deleuze, I am not always convinced he is so useful in my empirical enquiries. I am impatient in this otherwise beautiful book, What Is Philosophy?, with the way philosophy’s role is exaggerated beyond any recognition, and also by the fact that on religion he has nothing much to say.Continue reading “Contra Deleuze: Latour’s Disputes”

There is a great interview HERE with Joshua Ramey about his book, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal. The interview is a recent episode of Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network, hosted by Erik Davis and Maja D’Aoust. It’s a very accessible overview of Deleuze’s philosophy, particularly with a view to its connectionContinue reading “Hermetic Deleuze”

The New Deleuze

How many books on Deleuze are coming out in the next year? A lot. The Deleuzian trend is far from waning. However, the trends is transforming, growing rhizomatic offshoots. There are a couple lines that I see developing in new Deleuze scholarship. One is indicated by the name of Clayton Crockett’s forthcoming work, Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology,Continue reading “The New Deleuze”