Theory & Method

Maxim: Deleuze: “exper­i­ment, never inter­pret” (Dia­logues 48).

Post­struc­tural­ism

• Rela­tion of phi­los­o­phy and art
  » “More impor­tant than thought is ‘what leads to thought’; more impor­tant than the philoso­pher is the poet” — Deleuze (Proust and Signs 95)

 

• “Prob­lem­at­ics” (the ques­tion & prob­lem of a concept)

 

• Con­struc­tivism through Affec­tive Encounters

   

• “Phi­los­o­phy as Opera”
  » “three poles of philo­soph­i­cal style” & per­spec­tive for method: empha­siz­ing “the philo­soph­i­cal trin­ity, phi­los­o­phy as opera,” Deleuze iden­ti­fies “con­cepts, or new ways of think­ing; per­cepts, or new ways of see­ing and con­stru­ing; and affects, or new ways of feel­ing” (Nego­ti­a­tions 165).

Appa­ra­tus Theory

• Define, apply
• Chart / Tax­on­omy (updated)

Heuret­ics (the logic of inven­tion)

• Philo­soph­i­cal Sig­na­tures & Gestures

• Cre­ative Scholarship
  » “The project is to learn to write with pat­terns that func­tion more like music than like con­cepts.” — Ulmer (Heuret­ics 91)
• Roland Barthes’ the­ory of sig­nifi­ance (”third meaning”)
  » “Each fig­ure explodes, vibrates in and of itself like a sound sev­ered from any tune—or is repeated to sati­ety, like the motif of a hov­er­ing music.” (A Lover’s Dis­course 6)
• Stim­mung (blog entry )
  » Der­rida, read­ing Ulysses, iden­ti­fies “a dom­i­nant affect, a Stim­mung or a pathos, a tone” (Acts of Lit­er­a­ture 291)
• Mid­dle Voice // Oto-Biography
“Niet­zsche has at his dis­posal a method of his own inven­tion. We should not be sat­is­fied with either biog­ra­phy or bib­li­og­ra­phy; we must reach a secret point where the anec­dote of life and the apho­rism of thought amount to one and the same thing”

— Deleuze (The Logic of Sense 128)

 

• Non-rational modes: Attune­ment, Intu­ition, Vir­tual, Multimodality

   

  » Cixous’ dis­ci­pli­nary (and per­sonal) challenge:

       “To hear well is to hear what is never said” (Read­ings 71).
   

  “For what one lacks access to from expe­ri­ence one will have no ear. ” — Niet­zsche, Ecce Homo

   

  Struc­tural Portrait?

  » “Writ­ers, poets musi­cians, filmmakers—painters too, even chance readers—may find that they are Spin­ozists.” — Deleuze (Spin­oza: Prac­ti­cal Phi­los­o­phy 129)

Dig­i­tal Pedagogy

• “Assem­blage Expres­sion as 2.0 Praxis” (in progress)
   

           — con­fer­ence abstracts: SAMLA ‘09 NeMLA ‘10 (PDFs)

• UF Eng­lish Depart­ment — Dig­i­tal Ped­a­gogy Group (nascent, fall 2010)

Ethics & Aesthetics

• Use of nar­ra­tive beyond neo-Aristotlean tra­di­tion, beyond moral­ity.
       — arti­cle: “Deleuze’s Ethics & Lit­er­ary Encoun­ters through Silko’s Cer­e­mony” (under review)
» “Peo­ple do not under­stand each other. The incom­pre­hen­si­ble part of each of us makes up the entire basis of life. Per­haps by read­ing these texts, we can work toward an effort of medi­a­tion on the incom­pre­hen­si­ble. I do not say that we are going to under­stand the incom­pre­hen­si­ble, but we have to accept it.” — Cixous (Read­ings 131)