As of Wednesday the 14th I’ll be based at the University of Cologne, teaching mainly American Literature. More details, including work contact address and numbers, can be found at my section of the Köln website.
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Guest lecture & workshop on Deleuze at UCD
March 9, 2007 – 8:44 pm
I’ll be at University College, Dublin on the 4th and 5th of April; on the Wednesday to give a lecture about Deleuze’s relation to schizophrenic art, and on the Thursday to run a workshop on key concepts in Deleuze and Guattari. More details soon.
DeleuzeGuattariWiki
January 22, 2007 – 8:52 pm
New in the resources section: a concordance of Deleuze & Guattari’s terminology, organized as a wiki. This isn’t a wiki in the strict sense, as it’s not server-side and so it cannot by edited by viewers; its main purpose is to act as a quick reference tool for definitions. It’s a resource I developed for use primarily in workshops on Deleuze, and so it contains links to external wikis which are server-side, and which act as user-editable community resources for making working definitions of Deleuze’s concepts.
This is very much an experiment and work-in-progress; at present it’s limited to just a few terms, but over the next year it should grow (or indeed contract) into a definitive concordance.
Another Deleuze lecture at Cologne
January 22, 2007 – 8:45 pm
On the 1st of February I’ll be once again at the University of Cologne. The lecture will deal with the difficulty in diffentiating between abstract machines as components of the virtual, and machinic assemblages as components of the actual. How can we perceive abstract machines, if they exist only as virtual diagrams?
By looking at some examples of machinic assemblages in art, literature, and psychiatry, I’ll present a technique whereby we can analyse the relation of these assemblages to their abstract machines. The job of measuring the degree to which any assemblage is actualized or virtualized is what Deleuze calls schizoanalysis. I’ll be suggesting a way in which we can schizoanalyse all artefacts, whether they be artistic, literary, or technological.
Article on Thomas Pynchon in the Sunday Times
December 3, 2006 – 8:54 pm
The lead article in today’s Sunday Times Culture section is an overview of Pynchon’s novels and reluctant celebrity. Bryan Appleyard, the author of an eloquent and sober study of belief in the existence of aliens – Aliens: Why They Are Here – examines Pynchon’s life, writings, and literary reputation, discussing with me (among others) the likely longevity of Pynchon’s appeal. The article can be found here.
Deleuze cluster at Cologne
November 17, 2006 – 8:55 pm
From the 14th to the 18th of December there’s a series of lectures and seminars at the University of Cologne, all dealing with Deleuze. On the 14th I’ll be giving a lecture about the various types of abstract machine to be found in fiction and non-fiction. The other lectures are by Ian Buchanan, who’ll be talking about Deleuze and Cinema, and also running a lecture series and workshop on Anti-Oedipus, and John Protevi, who’ll be talking about Katrina (the hurricane). More details on the poster above.
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