The Folds of Coexistence: Towards a Diplomatic Political Ontology, between Difference and Contradiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R Conway
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

Between the affirmative and the negative, the compositional and the oppositional, we need to rethink the difference between difference and contradiction. In this regard, the concept of ‘diplomacy’, as developed by Isabelle Stengers, is of particular significance. Whereas many adherents of an affirmative ontology of difference reduce contradiction to a caveat – ‘of course, antagonism is inevitable, but …’ – diplomacy makes contradiction its fundamental concern. This article explicates the significance of such a conception, via close readings of Stengers’ work in relation to that of Gilles Deleuze, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. However, it also develops diplomacy in new directions, particularly relating the diplomatic ‘fold’ to the sovereign ‘cut’. The fold of coexistence, then, is achieved through diplomacy as a ‘labour of difference’, against ‘facile pluralism’, which takes worldly cohabitation as given. A diplomatic political ontology is neither bellicose nor pacific; rather, it dramatizes the possibility of peace from within a coercive historical reality.

Providing the Missing Link: Law after Latour’s Passage

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Gutwirth
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Political ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Trade Associations ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Signal Operations ◽  
Philosophical Intervention

A decisive philosophical intervention pitched at the level of law’s ontology, Gutwirth’s ‘Providing the Missing Link’ renders the difference between law as an institution or a body of norms and law as a mode of existence or value a crucial point of passage for any future philosophy of law. The first, Gutwirth argues, isn’t really law at all, but a political and organisational phenomenon easily confused with other norms and normative systems, from the rules of sporting groups or trade associations to ethical codes. The second is a far narrower concept keyed to the production of novel solutions under a particular kind of constraint and has nothing to do with the establishment of standards to be followed. Gutwirth’s finely tuned theorisation of law, which resonates with the work of Isabelle Stengers and Gilles Deleuze, sounds a laudable alarum designed to compel legal theorists to disencumber law of the formidable demands of the Rechtsstaat, while holding firmly to the evasive thread of legal enunciation. For Gutwirth, statements in the key of [LAW] require, as an absolute condition, the ‘anticipat[ion of] how and what a judge or court would decide’, and we are all jurists engaged in the practice of law, or at the least, we ‘speak legally’ and not merely ‘about law’, insofar as we projectively reason on the basis of that anticipation. The passage of law depends on this anticipatory structure, from which Gutwirth derives the signal operations of law (qualification, hesitation, imputation and so on), which work in essentially the same way as they did for the Romans. Law alone, he concludes – even after it has been unburdened of the political, economic, moral and other duties recklessly imposed on it – remains ‘the rightful and ultimate provider of stability and security’, as the loops of its unique temporality ensure that a resolution to any controversy can indeed be fashioned, even where every other mode fails.

scholarly journals Realities to be-come: on Cosmopolitics

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schillmeier
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Possible World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Key Terms

To assume that all things we want to describe – humans and non-humans alike – can be done so properly only in terms of 'societies', requires a contrast – a momentum of cosmopolitics – to the very abstract distinctions upon which our classical understanding of sociology and its key terms rests: 'The social' as defined in opposition to 'the non-social', 'society' in opposition to 'nature'. The concept of cosmopolitics tries to avoid such modernist strategy that A. N. Whitehead called 'bifurcation of nature' (cf. Whitehead 1978, 2000). The inventive production of contrasts names a cosmopolitical tool which does not attempt to denounce, debunk, replace or overcome abstract, exclusivist oppositions that suggest divisions as 'either…or'-relations. Rather, as the Belgian philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers stresses, 'the contrast will have to be celebrated in the manner of a new existent, adding a new dimension to the cosmos' (Stengers 2011: 513). Cosmopolitics, then, engages with 'habits we experiment with in order to become capable of new experiences' (Stengers 2001: 241) and opens up the possibility of agency of the non-expected Other, the non-normal, the non-human, the non-social, the un-common. 'The Other is the existence of a possible world', as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1994: 17-18) have put it. It is 'the condition for our passing from one world to another. The Other (...) makes the world go by.'

The Tuscan Committee of National Liberation: new directions in research, archives and editions of sources

Modern Italy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Paolo Mencarelli
Keyword(s):  
National Liberation ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
The North ◽  
New Directions ◽  
International Importance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

Historians agree that the liberation of Florence (11 August 1944) was a key moment in the war in Italy for political, rather than military, reasons. This was the case, above all, because the Allies found for the first time, in a city of great international importance, an administration that at both city and provincial level was an expression of the antifascist forces. The parties as well as the organisations had, it transpired, worked to create the foundations of popular self-government during the struggle against the Germans and the Fascists and, in particular, during the months immediately preceding the Liberation. It was in Florence itself that, confronted with such a demonstration of the maturity and organisation of the Resistance, the Allied forces were compelled to rethink their relationship with the various partisan and antifascist forces. The difference between Florence and Rome was such that the Allies had, at the very least, to acknowledge the institutional and social ambitions of the Resistance movement and the desire of the partisans to change the way the country would be run after the war. These aspirations were a key aspect of the Resistance in Florence and Tuscany and, as the Allies discovered, the partisans in the North shared these same hopes and ambitions.

scholarly journals A diferença como valor humano: Ensaio sobre as contribuições do pensamento de Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze e Homi Bhabha para o Paradigma da Inclusão

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (71) ◽  
pp. 727-764
Author(s):  
Sílvia Ester Orrú
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Human Value ◽  
Social Invisibility ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Abstract Economics

A diferença como valor humano: Ensaio sobre as contribuições do pensamento de Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze e Homi Bhabha para o Paradigma da Inclusão Resumo: A economia e a particularização marcam a sociedade contemporânea como importantes vetores para a ampliação das desigualdades sociais e produção de variados mecanismos de exclusão social. A diferença é parâmetro para categorizar e apartar pessoas à invisibilidade social. O presente ensaio tem como objetivo o diálogo junto aos autores Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze e Homi Bhabha e seus respectivos pensamentos como contributores para o entendimento da diferença como valor humano no contexto do paradigma da inclusão. Nos caminhos e entre-lugares da descolonização de nosso ser, é preciso desnaturalizar as barbáries produzidas pelo colonizador e aceitar as diferenças como próprias da espécie humana para a (re)invenção de nossa educação e sociedade.Palavras-chave: Inclusão. Diferença. Educação. Descolonização. Apoio: CNPq DIFFERENCE AS HUMAN VALUE: Essay on the contributions of the thoughts of Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze and Homi Bhabha to the Inclusion Paradigm Abstract: Economics and particularization mark contemporary society as important vectors for widening social inequalities and producing various mechanisms of social exclusion. The difference is a parameter to categorize and separate people to social invisibility. This essay aims to dialogue with the authors Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze and Homi Bhabha and their respective thoughts as contributors to the understanding of difference as a human value in the context of the inclusion paradigm. In the ways and places between the decolonization of our being, we must denaturalize the barbarism produced by the colonizer and accept the differences as proper to the human species for the (re)invention of our education and society.Keywords: Inclusion. Difference. Education. Decolonization. DIFERENCIA COMO VALOR HUMANO: Ensayo sobre las contribuciones de los pensamientos de Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze y Homi Bhabha al paradigma de la inclusión Resumen: La economía y la particularización marcan a la sociedad contemporánea como vectores importantes para ampliar las desigualdades sociales y producir diversos mecanismos de exclusión social. La diferencia es un parámetro para clasificar y separar a las personas de la invisibilidad social. Este ensayo tiene como objetivo dialogar con los autores Boaventura Sousa Santos, Gilles Deleuze y Homi Bhabha y sus respectivos pensamientos como contribuyentes a la comprensión de la diferencia como un valor humano en el contexto del paradigma de inclusión. En los modos y lugares entre la descolonización de nuestro ser, debemos desnaturalizar la barbarie producida por el colonizador y aceptar las diferencias como propias de la especie humana para la (re)invención de nuestra educación y sociedad.Palabras clave: Inclusión. Diferencia. Educación. Descolonización. Data de registro: 21/09/2019Data de aceite: 22/07/2020

scholarly journals Filosofias indígenas: fractalidade como ferramenta de conhecimentos tradicionais

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (48) ◽  
pp. 174-207
Author(s):  
Orivaldo Nunes Junior
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

O pensamento eurocentrado, com possui base dualista da balança e dois pesos, na lógica aristotélica e na Geometria Euclidiana e Cartesiana, foi fortemente criticado por intelectuais influenciados pelas Filosofias não-eurocentradas. Contudo, as influências de Filosofias Indígenas presentes no Pragmatismo e na Filosofia do Processo que influenciaram Felix Guattari e Gilles Deleuze, estes influenciados por Pierre Clastres que etnografou sociedades Indígenas contra o Estado centralizador tão caro à Europa. Tais críticas produziram Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold que trazem novas perspectivas à Antropologia e Sociologia, bem como Milton Santos que trouxe uma Geografia nova. Estes movimentos nos auxiliaram a delinear a proposta de Apensamento, como organizador da multiplicidade composta por seres com diversidade multiescalar e fractal, comum nas Filosofias Indígenas, que podemos utilizar como ferramenta na decolonização do pensar eurocentrado.

scholarly journals How Does a Thought Scream? The Possibility of the New as a Condition of Political Ontology in Gilles Deleuze’s The Time-Image

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-130
Keyword(s):  
Critical Distance ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Time Image ◽  
The Universe

The paper deals with Gilles Deleuze’s The Time-Image not as an essay on the philosophy of cinema but as a theory of political ontology. The meaning of the concept of “scream” must first be clarified. This concept appears in Deleuze’s lectures from 1980 in the context of the sequence of cinema, thought and shock from the second volume of his book Cinema. To indicate the immanent political significance of Deleuze’s cinema studies, the article clarifies the conceptual difference between two types of cinema. The distinction between “the movement-image” and “the time-image” is examined as ontological rather than aesthetic. In particular, the paper shows the conservative effects of “classic” cinema in the context of Henri Bergson’s ontology. The critical potential of modern cinema, which Deleuze considers in The Time-Image, is a condition for undermining the logic of “habit,” which is reproduced by the cinema of “the movement-image.” The condition for a break with this logic is the effect of shock, which is produced by the distinctive characteristics of modern cinema. Deleuze finds the political significance of modern cinema in the context of the possibility of the New which is not predetermined by previous conditions. The rupture with the status quo is ensured by contrasting two concepts of the Whole viewed either as the Open or as the Outside. The difference between them is examined in connection with the critical distance from the ontology of Henri Bergson, which is an imaginary solution of the problem of the New and therefore the problem of conservatism in the universe of “classic” cinema. In order to identify the political significance of “the image-time,” it is necessary to indicate the constitutive role of temporal rupture in modern cinema. It is this logic that provides the effect of shock for thought and allows it to break away from permanent repetition.

música, autismo e diferenças: a representação como violência em levinas e deleuze

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 01-18
Author(s):  
Stephan Malta Oliveira ◽  
Luísa Azevedo Damasceno ◽  
Nathalie Emmanuelle Hofmann ◽  
Letícia Azevedo Damasceno ◽  
Cecília Albuquerque reynaud Schaefer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Autistic Child ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Taking Responsibility ◽  
Asymmetrical Relationships

The aim of this article is to investigate and discuss the notions of difference and representation in Emmanuel Levinas and Gilles Deleuze, articulating such notions through the example of a university extension project involving the formation of a musical ensemble composed of autistic children. Our research involved a review of four major philosophical works—Emmanuel Levinas’ Totality and Infinity; Among Us: Essays On Alterity; and “The Concept Of Difference In Bergson”; and Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition--in addition to secondary references. The main articulations of the investigation carried out in the project consist of aspects such as: taking responsibility for the autistic child through cultivating asymmetrical relationships, a process that takes place through sensibility, below any representation; and not totalizing the alterity involved while maintaining, at the same time, its radical difference. In addition, there is an emphasis in the work on the difference of each child, beyond his or her diagnostic identity, understanding that all participants are undergoing unique processes of differentiation, and that some differences are not more privileged than others, in that that such hierarchies are determined by power relations. Another contribution of this research is the emphasis on the intensive affective flows of children, and the construction of relationships of mutual affection, which increases the circulation of vital energy in each one. Finally, the results of the project are offered as guidelines for clinical practice, and for the cultivation of a politics of difference, as an alternative to hegemonic practices in autism studies in contemporary times.

Crip Eye for the Normate Guy: Queer Theory and the Disciplining of Disability Studies

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 586-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McRuer
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disability History ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Visual Rhetorics ◽  
The Difference

In “seeing the disabled: visual rhetorics of disability in Popular Photography,” Rose-marie Garland-Thomson argues that representations of disability in photography, over more than a century, have generally fallen into four broad categories: the wondrous, which places the disabled subject on high and elicits awe from viewers because of the supposedly amazing achievement represented; the sentimental, which places the disabled subject in a diminished, childlike, or custodial position, evoking pity; the exotic, which makes disability strange and distant—a freakish or perhaps transgressive spectacle; and the realistic, which brings disability close, potentially minimizing the difference between viewer and viewed. In the essay, which first appeared in print in the important disability studies anthology The New Disability History, Garland-Thomson reiterates some of the central disability studies insights that have transformed scholarship in the humanities over the past decade. Simultaneously, she takes disability studies in new directions, providing a critical taxonomy that those of us in the field can use as a foundation for countless other projects.

Book Review: New Directions in Biblical Thought, edited by Martin E. Marty. Association Press, New York, 1960. 128 pp. $.50.; The Difference in Being a Christian, by Stephen C. Neill. Association Press, New York, 1960. 125 pp. $.50.; Present Trends in Christian Thought, by L. Harold DeWolf. Association Press, New York, 1960. 128 pp. $.50.; Where Our Bible Came from, by J. Carter Swaim. Association Press, New York, 1960. 128 pp. $.50.; By John Calvin, edited by Hugh T. Kerr. Association Press, New York, 1960. 121 pp. $.50.; First Steps in Theology, by Jack Finegan. Association Press, New York, 1960. 123 pp. $.50.; Facing Protestant-Roman Catholic Tensions, edited by Wayne H. Cowan. Association Press, New York, 1960. 115 pp. $.50.; The Witness of Kierkegaard, edited by Carl Michalson. Association Press, New York, 1960. 127 pp. $.50.; The Reformation and Protestantism Today, by Clyde Leonard Manschreck. Association Press, New York, 1960. 126 pp. $.50.; What Baptism Means, by John W. Meister. Association Press, New York, 1960. 124 pp. $.50.; Poems to Change Lives, compiled by Stanton A. Coblentz. Association Press, New York, 1960. 124 pp. $.50.; Evidence of Eternity, edited by Hazel Davis Clark. Association Press, New York, 1960. 124 pp. $.50.

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Nancy White Thomas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Biblical Thought

scholarly journals Para uma narrativa complexa das ciências, ou a arte de reconstruir conceitos

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (28) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Eugênia Maria Dantas ◽  
Maria da Conceição Xavier de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
De Se ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

<p>Longe de se pautar por um conjunto de axiomas, regras fixas e princípios categóricos, as chamadas ciências da complexidade emergem na primeira metade dos anos de 1900 tendo por desafio edificar uma narrativa mestiça que religa diferentes fenômenos, movimentos, trajetos. Sem abrir mão do rigor, uma epistemologia da complexidade apela para a recriação e metamorfose de noções e conceitos que reconhecem a incerteza, o difuso e as ambiguidades do mundo fenomenal.<strong> </strong>Distanciando-se de um conhecimento fixo e unitário, o cientista-poeta se assemelha a um viajante que está sempre a meio caminho entre as duas margens de um rio. Tem como referência ideias de Edgar Morin, Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Stengers e, sobretudo, Michel Serres.</p>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document