StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-14-36
Andrew Pendakis
{"title":"In Medias Res: Deleuze and the Politics of Middleness","authors":"Andrew Pendakis","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-14-36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-14-36","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the links between the work of Gilles Deleuze and two tropes of middleness, both of which are central to the reproduction of neoliberalism. The middle in neoliberal (or postmodern) societies is a key tropological, given first as an explicit political imaginary, what I call the “radical centre,”and second, in the form of a background ontology I call “universal middleness.” Though this essay does not argue that Deleuze is even remotely a centrist in disguise, it does claim that a worrying resonance exists between too-fast readings of his work and the ambient middles invoked above. When not properly theorized, the givenness of these ideologies of the middle ends up spontaneously reproducing the common sense of neoliberalism; this is a danger too for those readings of Deleuze that subtract from his work its radical anti-capitalist core and instead read him as a pure ontologist (of the middle) or as a post-ideological ethicist of the in-between.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42299980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-66-91
G. Collett
{"title":"Concept and History: The (Trans)disciplinarity of Deleuze and Guattari’s Political Philosophy","authors":"G. Collett","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-66-91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-66-91","url":null,"abstract":"While Deleuze and Guattari’s workhas been criticized from a number of angles, one of the most pernicious readings is Alain Badiou’s claim that since Deleuze and Guattari assign an irreducible disciplinary modality to philosophy but not to politics in their What is Philosophy? (1991), we should consider their philosophical ontology as both pre-established and ultimately indifferent to concrete political considerations. By examining the disciplinarity of philosophy in Deleuze and Guattari, in its dynamic relation to extra-philosophical domains, this article shows that far from constituting an obstacle to the development of political critique, an irreducible conception of philosophy as a discipline, rather, conditions such critique. The article explores this point with regard to the difference between history and becoming in Deleuze and Guattari’s work, and in terms of the shift that takes place in their work from a structuralist to a machinic philosophical ontology.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42371949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-444-465
N. Safonov
{"title":"Sonorous Deserts: Schizoanalysis, Sound Studies, and Inhuman Ecology","authors":"N. Safonov","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-444-465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-444-465","url":null,"abstract":"The article investigates the impact of the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari on contemporary sound studies and proposes a revision of the schizoanalytic project as a development of the field of sound studies relevant to its present conditions. Being driven by the inhuman and ecological tendencies in the humanities, sound studies are seeking sonic thinkingto be a pathway between reductionist materialism and phenomenological anthropocentrism. The author argues that the schizoanalytic approach, being a process philosophy of abstract machines, is capable of synthesizing material-informational and environmental-agential accounts of the sonorous contemporaneity. Discussing Havana Syndrome, Earth’s hum cases and the transition from electronic dance music (EDM) to intelligent dance music (IDM), he outlines the inhuman sonorous ecology that serves as a cartographic extension of sonic thinking.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47943275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-218-251
A. Pogrebnyak
{"title":"Schizoanalysis, Marginalism, Fourierism (on two additional resources for understanding the economic views of Deleuze and Guattari)","authors":"A. Pogrebnyak","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-218-251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-218-251","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes how two theories, both emerging in the nineteenth century—Fourierism and marginalism—influenced the economic views of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Despite the fact that explicit recourse to those theories in Capitalism and Schizophreniais merely sporadic, the implicitly inherent interrelation between these ideas and a schizoanalyst view of economics turns out to be rather substantial. First, marginalism is concerned with a “logic of the (pen)ultimate,” within the framework of which a distinction between a limit and a threshold is introduced. This distinction is important for understanding how the “apparatuses of capture,” which subjugate desiring-production to the despotic, and later to the capitalist regime, function. Second, Fourier’s “gigantism,” mentioned by Deleuze and Guattari, turns out to be an anticipation of their own theory of the “desiring machine” synthesis not only as to its general intention, but also as a detailed social mechanics, built upon the engagement of “distributive passions.”","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46506865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-340-362
Ksenia Kapelchuk
{"title":"Deleuze and (Anti-)Dialectics","authors":"Ksenia Kapelchuk","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-340-362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-340-362","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the critique of dialectics within the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the response to this critique that has been proposed by Slavoj Žižek. As a rule, Deleuze’s philosophy is considered to be anti-dialectical and anti-Hegelian. In lieu of this interpretation, Žižek has proposed an alternative reading whereby, Deleuze himself appears to be a dialectician and a Hegelian. The article attempts to answer the following question: in what sense can we consider Deleuze's philosophical project to be a dialectical one? The author reveals the different meanings of dialectics that are explicitly present in Deleuze’s works and also conducts an analysis of the implicit similarities—as identified by Žižek—between Deleuze's arguments and Hegel's philosophy. Thus, the author offers a comparative analysis of the concepts shared by Hegel and Deleuze (the virtual, chance, repetition), distinguishing between Deleuze's and Hegel's projects,as well as between their respective interpretations by Žižek.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47099814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-294-316
Y. Regev
{"title":"The Wellspring of Vessels is Higher than the Wellspring of Light (Gilles Deleuze and Materialist Dialectic)","authors":"Y. Regev","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-294-316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-294-316","url":null,"abstract":"This article is dedicated to clarifying the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the materialist dialectic. Drawing upon the texts of Louis Althusser and Markus Gabriel, this article reformulates the central question of the materialist dialectic—the question of “educating the educators”—into a question of access to a sub-semantic “set of all sets.” Such a reformulation allows two main stages in the history of the materialist dialecticto be highlighted: materialist dialectics I, identifying the sub-semantic as such with practice, and materialist dialectics II, which develops the strategies of access to the sub-semantic as given in its non-givenness and excess. An examination of Deleuze’s philosophy in the dynamics of its development allows us to consider it as a preparation for a transition towards materialist dialectics III, granting a non-reductionist and concrete access to the sphere of the “set of all sets.”","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48215035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-158-184
A. Culp
{"title":"A Method to the Madness: The Revolutionary Marxist Method of Deleuze and Guattari","authors":"A. Culp","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-158-184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-158-184","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Andrew Culp looks to how Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari flip Marxism on its head. He makes the case by drawing on Marx’s own distinction between the dialectical mode of presentation and research-based mode of inquiry that went into writing Capital, which leads him to consult the prefaces and afterwords to Capitalin addition to Marxist feminists who discuss the book’s sensational style. Culp then argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s most significant contribution to Marxism is a methodological one, as found in their critical and clinical anthropology, which outlines the universal history of capitalism (diagrammed by Culp in an included chart). The result, he maintains, frees images of radical change from dialectics, liberal democracy, markets, or production as engines of revolution. In their place, he locates a new critique of political economics based on the destruction of economics itself by way of a revolution of the outside.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46429896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-492-512
N. Sazonov
{"title":"Light Manifesto: Non-Philosophy and Meteophilosophy","authors":"N. Sazonov","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-492-512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-492-512","url":null,"abstract":"Deleuze’s speculative suggestion on the dark precursor is not a neutral “creative” cooperation with science that his “hybrid” projects of geophilosophy, schizoanalysis, and so on, were. The dark precursor is mentioned once in Difference and Repetition as a notion of a “vaguely scientific” discipline, and there was no broad or explicit conceptual extension of it in Deleuze’s further philosophy. But at the same time, this accidental usage of the dark precursor uncovers the deep and fundamental sutures of recent speculative philosophy with the physical investigation of lightning. The fundamental questioning of philosophy, such as Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative movement on “hyperchaos,” is localized within the meteorological chains of the cosmic order of the principles of lightning’s genesis. In such meteophilosophy,we can find a way to suspend the transcendental limits of logocentrism, in its logo-photo-centric edition proposed by Francois Laruelle. Logo-photo-centric thought constituted by the light manifesto, or by the light as Flash, can be suspended by the anti-manifestational short-circuitsof meteophilosophy’s speculative models. Such short-circuits, from the other side, constitute the core of the lightmaresof thought that did not even come to Laruelle in his non-philosophical dreams.","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44854802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StasisPub Date : 2019-07-13DOI: 10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-6-8
Y. Regev, Anton V. Syutkin
{"title":"For Deleuze: Political Economy, Materialistic Dialectics and Speculative Philosophy","authors":"Y. Regev, Anton V. Syutkin","doi":"10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-6-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-6-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52288,"journal":{"name":"Stasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46571334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}