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 […]
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Ich bin ein Berner
In the past I’ve addressed certain topics or themes that were discussed by others in conferences. I’m not going to do that here, in the sense that I’d choose a particular topic and expand upon it. I am, however, going to address all kinds of things that I found noteworthy and interesting at a conference […]
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To those distant to me
Truth be told, what I’m about to discuss, I came across in ‘Gilles Deleuze’s ABCs: The Folds of Friendship’ by Charles Stivale. I can’t remember what it was, how I came across the book and the chapter on the topic, titled ‘The Folds of Friendship: Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault’, but somehow I did. Despite having a […]
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With the Lights On
I’m not fond of doing more of the same, albeit, strictly speaking that’s actually impossible. Anyway, the point here is that I’ve addressed this before in an earlier essay. In that essay I pointed out that I can’t remember what it is that pushed me to this direction, what made me cross a threshold to […]
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Your Grace
This is going to be fairly short as this is, essentially, just a recap of the course on aesthetics that I took. The last lecture was nearly two weeks ago, but there wasn’t much new discussed during the last lecture. What was, in part, new was on phenomenology, hermeneutics and semiotics. That said, there wasn’t […]
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Bold, Bold, Humboldt
I brought up Wilhelm von Humboldt in an earlier essay, in one of the texts I wrote on the aesthetics lectures. I noted that while apparently fairly influential in the 1800s, as well as in the 1900s, he is one of those figures that have eluded me. This may well be just by chance alone […]
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Play-Doh! My Oh Mimesis!
I pointed out in an earlier essay that mimesis is something that I haven’t covered, yet should cover. Why? Well, it’s just that important when it comes to art, as well as landscapes. Before I really get into it, it’s worth addressing the word itself, that is to say ask the question: what is mimesis? […]
This essay was hardly planned, but I reckon it’s doable, considering I’ve covered this in previous essays, at least twice or so, albeit those times it’s been more of a general examination of what’s at stake. Anyway, to get to the point, I came across a news story about the planned changes for the social […]
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Support your local
This will be short this time. As I’ve pointed out, I’ve been working on a project where my part is to examine stories that appear on newspapers, both broadsheet and tabloid. To be more specific, I’m actually looking at the online versions, just to be clear that. Not that looking into the paper versions wouldn’t […]
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Mindbogging
Instead of continuing on more Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as was my intent, I’ll do a very short essay, a follow-up to the previous essay on landscape and aesthetics, as examined during the lecture course on aesthetics. The bad thing here is that I can hardly remember what the lectures were on, including the […]