Extracts from Gilles Deleuze, “Immanence: A Life” in Pure Immanence: Essays on Life (extracts p. 28-32, ital. added): Between his life and his death, there is a moment that is only that of a life playing with death. The life of the individual gives way to an impersonal and yet singular life that releases a […]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Singularities and Language
What is a singularity? It is a simple question, but any answer is not so simple and I am not so sure. There are the scientific answers. Whatever. They are too simple, because they assume too much. In The Logic of Sense Deleuze isolates the ‘fourth person singular’ as a dimension of language found in […]
Jess Wright, 1904-2006
Dear Nan, Some lives are full of importance and the extraordinary, but by taking on life without regrets, you demonstrated what was important about an ordinary life. I hope to live a life as worthy as yours. Glen
I’m Excited
I have scanned the Gomart and Hennion piece on what they call the ‘sociology of attachment’ but which also discusses ‘event-network theory’. It is a hard and fast ‘event’ theory influenced by Foucault and Actor Network Theory, but different to Deleuze’s hard-to-explain ‘singular’ conception and Foucault’s ‘historical periodization’ conception of events. I am pushing for […]
Events and Texts
Nick over at Memes of Production links to an essay (via Crooked Timber) entitled Critical Information Studies: A bibliographic manifesto (PDF document) by Siva Vaidhyanathan. It is a very well written paper. Vaidhyanathan writes: Critical Information Studies investigates four dynamic fields of scholarly analysis and debate: 1) the abilities and liberties to use, revise, criticize, […]