So, I attended a major conference not long ago. It was one of these as big as it gets type of conferences with thousands of attendees, well, at least to my understanding, that is. The scale is so big that you know … just about no one, except a handful of familiar faces from a […]
Author: Timo Savela
I’ve written on governmentality before, but that has been more of me going through how Michel Foucault explores and explains it in his work, namely in an aptly named essay ‘Governmentality’, which can be found in ‘The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality with Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault’. This is not […]
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No Nonsense: Living Next Door to Carroll
I was going to continue on this in the previous essay but then I thought that it’d be better to do a split instead. So, I’m picking up where I left off, examining the English translation of Gilles Deleuze’s book ‘Logique du sens’, ‘The Logic of Sense’. Why? Because, well, in the absence of meaning, […]
This is one of those things (a word that I just covered in earlier essay) that I haven’t really clearly addressed so far. This is related to my own research, so I guess it would only make sense to address. People may or may not be aware that my research deals with texts, by and […]
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The thing is: What’s a thing anyway?
I was writing something else, something else which will come out eventually, but it got me thinking. I ended up using the word ‘thing’ quite a bit and, want it or not, it does crop up quite a bit. So, it got me thinking, that there has to be something to it. What’s a thing […]
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Peerage, judgment and combat
This time I’ll be looking at something that I read not that long ago, maybe less than a month ago, give or take. It’ll on the short side, I hope. Well, at least the text itself isn’t that long, mere nine pages, so it shouldn’t be too bad. So, this time I’ll taking a close […]
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Wheelies and shiny disco balls
So far I’ve managed to cover the first two days of X-SCAPES workshop in Bern, Switzerland. I realize that it’s a hardly optimal, if not simply counterproductive to write these recaps weeks, now over a month, after the conference. Then again, it’s not that I’m helpless, no, I can choose, but rather that if I’m […]
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Nonhuman landscapes of nature
I’ve written quite a bit on landscape and, well, I won’t let you down this time either. I’ve particularly focused on how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari present it in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I’m not going to focus on that in detail here, again, for the umpteenth time. I’ll do my best […]
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Walk the walk, talk the talk
I pointed out that I’d cover more conference presentations as previously I only covered a number of them that were on day one. So, this time I’ll covering day two. The selection is, once again, based on what I found particularly interesting and have something to say about. Starting with bits and pieces, Yael Guilat […]
If my memory serves me, it’s in ‘Gilles Deleuze from A to Z’, a series of conversations with Claire Parnet, that Deleuze expresses his opposition to schools of thought (see “‘P’ as in Professor” and “‘W’ as in Wittgenstein”). He lists, among others (that we could think of here), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger and Jacques […]