By Bernard E. Harcourt The stimulating interventions of Barbara Stiegler, John Rajchman, and Mick Taussig at last night’s seminar, Nietzsche 4/13, raised a number of challenging issues regarding Gilles Deleuze’s reading, interpretation, and “use” of Nietzsche—regarding both the Deleuzian Nietzsche… Continue Reading
By Daniela Gandorfer “How on earth do you read Deleuze and Guattari? How on earth do you read A Thousand Plateaus?” Posed as a rhetorical question by Michael Taussig, “the idiot question you can’t get away from” points to the elephant… Continue Reading
By John Rajchman By ‘Deleuze’s Nietzsche’, I don’t mean simply what Deleuze wrote about Nietzsche but also how Nietzsche figured in the larger ‘image of thought’ he tried to work out throughout his career and the new ideas or questions… Continue Reading
Before I begin, I would like to sincerely thank Bernard E. Harcourt, Jesus R. Velasco, and their whole team for this invitation. After many years work, following behind Foucault, on the birth of American neo-liberalism, your invitation gave me a… Continue Reading
In the short time available I want to ask some questions and present an “application” of Deloozian thinking to my fieldwork in the swamps of northern Colombia subject to paramilitary-backed African Palm plantations displacing peasant farmers. Questions: How does one… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt If Georges Bataille recuperated Nietzsche from the fascists and made war reparations to him, returning to Nietzsche an untainted concept of the will to power; and if Maurice Blanchot elevated Nietzsche’s aphoristic style, gave pride of… Continue Reading