Tag Archives: Deleuze

Posthuman (Michal Rovner) Evolution

Posted on July 26, 2018 by zjb

Michal Rover’s latest show at Pace, Evolution, is hardcore posthuman. Viewed from the chilly distance of a desert, the human is seen reproduced and submerged in a collective mass of de-realized figures on the move going nowhere, submerged in technology, across … Continue reading →

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Virtual Judaism of the Mishnah (Jacob Neusner & Gilles Deleuze)

Posted on July 13, 2018 by zjb

Reading Neusner’s classic Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah at long last and past midcareer. I am unsure if earlier I would have ever appreciated the book enough or at all or I would have been able to conceive the … Continue reading →

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Deleuze Talmud Notes

Posted on July 12, 2018 by zjb

  I think it holds up, this little exercise in transposing Deleuzian concepts into a theory of philosophical Talmud: Talmud of Difference and Repetition Talmud would constitute repetition of Torah, and like repetition assumes the status of echo, doubles, or … Continue reading →

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Thought and Image (Deleuze Cinema)

Posted on July 11, 2018 by zjb

I’m reading chapters 7-8 of Cinema 2 as a single, complete, and coherent unit that touch upon the image as a work of thought. There are 3 complex parts to these reflections in chapter 7. The endpoint is to theorize … Continue reading →

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Movement and Time Images (Deleuze) (Cinema 1 Cinema 2)

Posted on May 3, 2018 by zjb

I am trying to get a handle on the two primary types of image, the “movement image” and the “time image” in Deleuze two books on cinema. Each with their own specific variations, these two primary topoi are the respective … Continue reading →

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The Cinema of Spiritual Life (Deleuze)

Posted on November 27, 2017 by zjb

A fascinating quote by Deleuze on cinema and thought the keyterms of which are “decision,” “obstinacy,” “choice,” “existence,” and “spiritual life.” “The reverse was also true, one went right from cinema to philosophy. Something bizarre about the cinema struck me: … Continue reading →

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(Deleuze) Difference & Repetition Reading Notes and A Few Critical Remarks

Posted on September 13, 2017 by zjb

Open to your correction and emendation, here’s a rough outline with some added critical notation to Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. Too important a text to gloss, I decided with this one to go chapter by chapter. My basic understanding was … Continue reading →

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Deleuze Leibniz Cosmogenesis

Posted on July 18, 2017 by zjb

You would have thought it was Spinoza, but Leibniz turn out to be the beating metaphysical heart of the Deleuzian universe and its modelling of cosmogenesis, the creation of worlds (compossible and incompossible) around inflection points, the emission of singularities … Continue reading →

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The Place of Connection, A Form of Relationship (Distinct But Inseparable) (Deleuze)

Posted on July 5, 2017 by zjb

How to sort through the relationship between this and that, the material and the immaterial, the political and the religious, art and everything else? The radical critical reflex is to start with and assert the value of one primary formation … Continue reading →

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Bright Light on Hudson River (Deleuze)

Posted on June 21, 2017 by zjb

“Qualities and extensities, forms and matters, species and parts are not primary; they are imprisoned in individuals as though in a crystal, Moreover, the entire world may be read, as though in a crystal ball, in the moving depth of … Continue reading →

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