The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference

The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference

CONNECTdeleuze: TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

The Department for American Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany

Aug 10-12 2009

The conference aims at building transdisciplinary assemblages that

involve Deleuze in a wider range of thought, i.e. at constructing, from different 'modules of thought,' innovative conceptual arrangements that integrate Deleuzian philosophy into the larger field of contemporary knowledge production and practices of living.

Speakers include:

Brent Adkins, Jeffrey Bell, Réda Bensmaia, Hanjo Berressem, Charlie Blake, Arno Böhler, Ronald Bogue, Mark Bonta, Rosi Braidotti, Ian Buchanan, Didier Debaise, Norbert Finzsch, Colin Gardner, Erika Gaudlitz, Johnny Golding, Paul Harris, Peter Hertz, Jean Hillier, David Holdsworth, Eugene Holland, Gillian Howie, Jan Jagodzinski, Shoshone Johnson, Christian Kerslake, Gregg Lambert, Patricia MacCormack, Erin Manning, David Martin-Jones, Brian Massumi, Philippe Mengue, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Arkady Plotnitsky, Bryan Reynolds, Martin E. Rosenberg, Horst Ruthrof, Jac Saorsa, Mirjam Schaub, Henning Schmidgen, Inna Semetsky, Daniel W. Smith, Andreas Speer, Charles Stivale, Kenneth Surin, Laurent de Sutter, Janell Watson, Edward Willatt, Doro Wiese, James Williams

If you are interested in presenting at this conference, submit panel proposals and/or individual abstracts [250 words] to

CONNECTdeleuze@web.de

DEADLINE: Apr 30, 2009 (please include your affiliation and short bio)


Further details can be found at

http://www.pressoffice.uni-koeln.de/

Deleuze and Sex

"Making love is not just becoming as one,

or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand."

(Anti-Oedipus)

Deleuze and Sex

A new proposed volume in the Deleuze Connection series for Edinburgh University Press (Series Editor Ian Buchanan). Edited by Frida Beckman.

For Gilles Deleuze, sexuality has a central role in the production of thought, bodies, and becomings. True thought, he argues in Logic of Sense, is possible only when it is liberated from the notion of castration as transcendent law. Castration needs to be thought of, instead, as a crack, a fracture that does not produce a lack but a surface of thought, “projecting the entire corporeal surface of sexuality over the metaphysical surface of thought.” Sexuality, then, is linked closely to the possibility of immanence and thinking; the event of thought. If the transcendent law of castration results in a blockage of thought, it also results in the mastering and moulding of the sexual body into the molar notion of two sexes rather than the (pregenital) Harlequins cloak to which Deleuze compares it. The sexual surfaces of the libido are restricted, blocked, and reduced and thereby their flows are repressed “in order to contain them in the narrow cells of the type ‘couple,’ ‘family,’ ‘person,’ ‘objects.’” However, the sexual body is seen to retain a revolutionary potential and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming; there is immense power in the thousand sexes of desiring-machines, in sexuality beyond the “all too human” idea of castration as absence, and in the multiplicity of surfaces that are opened up in its place.


This collection seeks to address the notion of sexuality, not so much as instinct but as creation, not so much as a transcendent mode of organization but as a revolutionary machine. It wants to know the potential of sexuality when liberated from genitality as well as antrophomorphic presuppositions. It is therefore interested in exploring areas such as for example sexuality and the machinic, sexuality and surfaces, and sexuality and animality. It asks about the ontology of sex and how we can begin to know of it when it is no longer captive to molar representations. Investigating the strengths and potentials but also the weaknesses and dangers that sexuality open for thinking, bodies, and becomings, it pursues the ethic, aesthetic, political, and philosophical dimensions of Deleuze’s work on sexuality.


Importantly, contributors should note that this edited collection follows on edited books in the same series focusing on Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Deleuze and Queer Theory, and Deleuze and the Body (forthcoming). While aspects of gender, queer, and the body will be likely, as well as welcome in this new collection, it is crucial that articles focus specifically on the possibilities of sexual practice in the revisiting of such issues.


Abstracts should be submitted electronically to the editor no later than May 1st 2009.

frida.beckman@engelska.uu.se

The proposed publication date is set for autumn of 2010.

CFP: Deleuze and Activism

Deleuze and Activism

Cardiff University, Wales, UK

12-13 November, 2009

When Deleuze and Guattari wrote Anti-Oedipus they hoped it would be a resource to arms for dissidents and political activists. Rather than set out a program of change, they tried to isolate the political, cultural and economic factors that inhibit change. In so doing they created a work that was instantly recognised as a philosophical watershed. It changed the landscape of political theory in a single sweep. Subsequent works developed this analysis further, creating a formidable armoury of critical tools with which to face a world increasingly indifferent to philosophy. This conference seeks to examine the Deleuzian legacy from the point of view of radical politics. It seeks to analyse both what he and Guattari wrote on the subject and more particularly to see what their writings enable us to say now.

Keynote speakers

Paul Patton
Jeremy Gilbert
Nathan Widder
Ian Buchanan

Convened by Dr Marcelo Svirsky, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University

For more information, please contact:

svirskym@cardiff.ac.uk

Lines of Flight: The Deleuzian Text

‘a fibre strung across borderlines constitutes a line of flight or of deterritorialization’

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
Friday 5th September 2008 

English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University

Keynote Speaker:

Ian Buchanan, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University.

‘It is never the beginning or the end which are interesting; the beginning and the end are points. What is interesting is the middle’ Dialogues II, p.39

For Gilles Deleuze, the real potential of a text lies in process, in its lines of flight. The artist’s ability to take up the ‘interrupted line’ in the middle mobilises a becoming through art, a creation of something new and of endless transformative potential. This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference invites students from the fields of English, Film Studies, Philosophy, Art, Performing Arts, and Cultural Studies to explore how Deleuze’s concept of the ‘line of flight’ opens up new, non-representational readings of the text, offering innovative spaces in which to actualise different art forms and ultimately different lines of thought. The following issues will be investigated:

In what ways do particular art forms operate lines of flight?
How can Deleuze be applied to contemporary texts?
How is his work relevant for literature/film/art today?
How does Deleuze’s work relate to other theoretical paradigms?
How can Deleuze be used to open up new readings of literature?
In an age in which identity politics has become so important, where can Deleuzian theory fit?

Conference fee: £20 (inc. lunch)

CFP Deadline July 15th 2008

For more information, please contact Lucy Prodgers (l.prodgers@student.mmu.ac.uk) or Deleuze Studies (deleuzestudies@mmu.ac.uk)

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The First International
Deleuze Studies Conference

“One or Several Deleuzes?”

Cardiff University, Wales
August 11-13, 2008

CFP deadline extended to May 31

Participants include:

Hanjo Berressem Ronald Bogue Claire Colebrook Gary Genosko Eleanor Kaufman Janell Watson

Eugene Holland Dorothea Olkowski John Protevi James Williams Kenneth Surin Richard Pinhas

Convened by Ian Buchanan,Tom Harman, Tim Matts and Aidan Tynan

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The incredible body of research on Deleuze’s work that has emerged in the past two decades - well over 130 books and literally thousands of articles - has created a situation in which it is no longer possible for a lone scholar to keep pace with new developments in the field. As scholars in disciplines as far flung from each other as musicology, organisational studies, philosophy and cultural studies embrace Deleuze this problem grows ever more intractable. Compounding matters further, Deleuze scholarship spans most languages. In the process there has appeared a highly contested variety of Deleuzes - there is the political Deleuze, the apolitical Deleuze, the philosophical Deleuze (who is a Kantian, a Nietzschean, a Spinozist, a Stoic, etc.), the phenomenological Deleuze, the activist Deleuze, and so on. Sponsored by the journal Deleuze Studies, the aim of this conference is to bring all these Deleuzes into communication.

Send panel proposals and abstracts to deleuze@cardiff.ac.uk the deadline for abstracts is 31st May 2008

Registration, accommodation options and program updates will be added to this page.

Graduate Students may also be interested in attending Deleuze Camp 2 - ‘When far too much Deleuze is barely enough!’.

Suely Rolnik on Felix Guattari's Molecular Revolution in Brazil @ Goldsmiths, London, UK

The Micropolitics Group (PoCA) will be hosting Suely Rolnik, cultural critic, curator, psychoanalyst and professor at the Universidade Católica de São Paulo, this December and organizing a number of events and meetings around her visit:

Monday, 26 November, 6-8 PM
RHB (Goldsmiths Main Building) Room 141

Suely Rolnik is a cultural critic, curator, psychoanalyst and professor at the Universidade Católica de São Paulo, where she conducts a transdisciplinary doctoral program on contemporary subjectivity. She is co-author with Félix Guattari of Molecular Revolution in Brazil, to be released in English translation by Semiotext next year and Micropolitics: Cartographies of Desire (1986). Most recently Rolnik curated “Lygia Clark. From work to event. We are the mould, it’s up to you to breathe substance into it’, a touring exhibition and catalogue on Clark’s later work. Refusing to simply re-display art works, the exhibition was composed of 63 video interviews with Clark’s friends, acquaintances, students and colleagues about the implications of her experimental, collective projects like the ‘Nostalgia of the Body’ workshops of the early 1970s and the individual therapeutic ‘Structuration of the Self’ sessions she undertook on her return to Rio in 1976.

MICROPOLITICS READING GROUP
Topic: Pimping and Counter–Pimping
In preparation for Suely Rolnik’s visit to Goldsmiths, a session addressing the politics of subjectivation in cultural work. Reading:
Suely Rolnik, ‘The Geopolitics of Pimping’:

http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/1106/rolnik/en

Felix Guattari and Suely Rolnik Molecular Revolution in Brazil (forthcoming MIT Semiotexte):
‘Subjectivity and History’ pp.35-178 and ‘Love, territories of desire and a new smoothness’, pp.413-463

http://micropolitics.wordpress.com/text-links/

Wednesday, December 5th 5-7pm
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths
SUELY ROLNIK: PUBLIC LECTURE
Lygia Calling

Thursday December 6th 5-7pm
RHB (Goldsmiths Main Building) 256
SEMINAR with SUELY ROLNIK

Seminar will be based on texts for Reading Group (above), her lecture and thoughts on the forthcoming publication in English of ‘Molecular Revolution in Brazil’, MIT Semiotexte 2007/8

http://micropolitics.wordpress.com/

CFP 'One or Several Deleuzes?' or The First International Deleuze Studies Conference

The first international Deleuze Studies conference

'One or Several Deleuzes?'

Cardiff University, Wales, UK

August 11-13, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The incredible body of research on Deleuze's work that has emerged in the past two decades - well over 130 books and literally thousands of articles - has created a situation in which it is no longer possible for a lone scholar to keep pace with new developments in the field. As scholars in disciplines as far flung from each other as musicology, organisational studies, philosophy and cultural studies embrace Deleuze this problem grows ever more intractable.

Compounding matters further, Deleuze scholarship spans most languages. In the process there has appeared a highly contested variety of Deleuzes - there is the political Deleuze, the apolitical Deleuze, the philosophical Deleuze (who is a Kantian, a Nietzschean, a Spinozist, a Stoic, etc.), the phenomenological Deleuze, the activist Deleuze, and so on. Sponsored by the journal Deleuze Studies, the aim of this conference is to bring all these Deleuzes into communication.

Participants include:
Hanjo Berressem
Ronald Bogue
Claire Colebrook
Gary Genosko
Eugene Holland
Dorothea Olkowski
John Protevi
James Williams

Convened by Ian Buchanan
Tim Matts and Aidan Tynan

Send panel proposals and abstracts to buchanani@cardiff.ac.uk

Registration, accommodation options and program updates can be found at:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/deleuze/index.html

Graduate Students may also be interested in attending next summer's

Deleuze Camp 2: 'When far too much Deleuze is barely enough!'