Deleuze and Naturalism

Patton, Paul

doi:10.1080/09672559.2016.1175103

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“…As well as being suggestive metaphors Deleuze and Guattari's ideas of territorialisation and deterritorialization as critique of linguistic presuppositions/semiotic systems resonate with the poststructuralist impulses of geography in conveying the coemergence of spatial relationalilities and affectual/discursive formations. Again, though, as Patton (2016) argues, Deleuze and Guattari's interpretation of territorialisation and deterritorialization relies on a transcendental quality, that of the idea of 'absolute deterritorialization' (or evisceration of meaning) against which semantic formations are to be judged. Degrees of territorialisation or deterritorialization, from a pragmatist perspective, are again, wholly empirical questions, open to empirical comparison, rather than being judged against some transcendental yardstick.…”

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On pragmatism, assemblage and ANT: Assembling reason

Bridge

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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In geography the key theoretical registers of assemblage theory and Actor Network Theory have been psychoanalytic-semiotic, materialist and vitalist (emphasising affect). In contrast, this paper indicates the original influence and continued relevance of philosophical pragmatism’s action-oriented approach for assemblage and ANT. It suggests how a pragmatist understanding of human experience, situation and reason offers a different perspective on the nature of emergent and relational space in assemblages and networks. This perspective extends existing pragmatist work in geography to explore the distinctive, hyper-relational spatialities of human activity in a world of acting things, suggesting wider implications for progress in human geography.

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On pragmatism, assemblage and ANT: Assembling reason

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2020

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The metaphysics science needs: Deleuze's naturalism

Webster

2023

European J of Philosophy

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This article is aimed at those interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the sciences—and this includes philosophers of science working out of the analytic tradition. Deleuze's writings are riddled with references to science and mathematics. And yet, the relation between these references and his philosophical thought is not well understood. In this essay, I investigate the nature of this relation—and I do so by asking whether it is naturalistic. Importantly, I draw on insights from contemporary philosophy of science to contribute to a proper understanding of this issue. I show that and how commentators are hamstrung by their lack of engagement with the philosophy of science; I present an interpretation of Deleuze's philosophical project as attempting to articulate an immanent and primitive form of objective modality; I draw together parts of Deleuze's corpus that are relevant to his treatment of the sciences but are nonetheless rarely studied in conjunction (including his and Guattari's distinction between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ science and his under‐scrutinized statement of interest in ‘the metaphysics science needs’); and I propose a naturalistic interpretation of his engagements with science.

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Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Nature: System and Method in What is Philosophy?

Schönher

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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For its elliptical style, What is Philosophy? appears to be fragmentary and inscrutable, and its reception has been correspondingly contentious. Following an intimation by Gilles Deleuze himself, this article proposes that his final book, written in collaboration with Félix Guattari, contains a philosophy of nature. To address this proposition, the article begins by outlining the comprehensive system of nature set out in What is Philosophy?, defining it as an open system in motion that conjoins philosophy with the historical preconditions and intersects it with science and art. The article then addresses the precise method whereby the philosopher as an individual subject, emerging from nature, can succeed in becoming creative – that is, in creating concepts to bring forth new events. Finally, the brain turns out to be the pivot between the system and this method. What is Philosophy? thus presents an account of the brain based on a theory of the three specific planes of philosophy, science and art, and uses it to expand upon the idea of assemblage for a philosophy of nature.

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Deleuze and Naturalism

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

On pragmatism, assemblage and ANT: Assembling reason

On pragmatism, assemblage and ANT: Assembling reason

The metaphysics science needs: Deleuze's naturalism

Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Nature: System and Method in What is Philosophy?

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