Here you can find our notes and commentary covering a variety of critical and theoretical works. We wrote these guides and outlines, in order to help ourselves diagram the people and ideas we were investigating. We’re hoping others will find them helpful as well, and that by collecting them together we can encourage thought and discussion about these important works.
- Badiou - Notes on Being and Event Meditation 23 on Fidelity (pdf)
- Bakhtin – Notes on “Epic and Novel” from the Dialogical Imagination; Notes on “Form of Time and Chronotope in the Novel” from the Dialogical Imagination (pdf)
- Guy Debord – Sections 1 and 2 of Society of the Spectacle ; Section 3 from Society of the Spectacle
- Gilles Deleuze – Notes on Difference and Repetition; Notes on Chapter 1 of Bergsonism; Full post on Chapter 1 of Bergsonism; Notes on Logic of Sense Series 2; Notes on Logic of Sense Series 17; Notes on Logic of Sense Series 25; Notes on Logic of Sense Preface, Series 1 and 2 and Appendix 1 on Simulacrum in Ancient Philosophy
- Vilém Flusser – Chapter 1: The Image (from The Philosophy of Photography)
- Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze – Chapters 1 and 2 of Anti-Oedipus; Notes to Introduction: Rhizome (from A Thousand Plateaus); Notes to November 20, 1923 — Postulates of Linguistics (from A Thousand Plateaus)
- Wilhelm von Humboldt – Notes on Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language
- Lyotard – Introduction, Sections 1 and 2 of The Postmodern Condition: a Report on Knowledge
- Herbert Marcuse - Notes on Eros and Civilization
- Michel Serres – Notes on the Birth of Physics; Discussion of The Parasite
- Ferdinand de Saussure - Notes to Course in General Linguistics
- Gilbert Simondon – A Short List of Terms and Concepts (pdf); A Discussion of Simondon’s Theory of Individuation ; A Discussion of Simondon’s Importance for Deleuze
Many of these notes are now also available as easily-viewable PDF files:
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Taylor Adkins
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This blog is very fascinating. Love seeing some people working with Flusser, doing theory and strongly media-technologically-focused philosophy in a similar way to myself and those in whom I’m interested. Keep it up!
Exactement! Encouraging to see serious research done on these topics. Prolific.
Salut les gens,
Bonjour. J’étudie l’informatique et réside dans la métropol Philadelphia.
Ma meilleure conjecture est la communauté de Fractal Ontolgy provient du Quebec.
Quebecois est un dialecte fascinant.
J’ai tenu des asprirations pour étudier la sociologie du UQAM, seulement l’imaginer rêvant!
Merci pour la connaissance brillante.
Au revoir:
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