scholarly journals O Acontecimento da Terra

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (48) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Alyne De Castro Costa ◽  
Ádamo Bouças Escossia Da Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

Neste artigo, recorremos ao conceito de “acontecimento”, de Gilles Deleuze, para pensar a Terra e as transformações antropogênicas que, incidindo sobre os processos ecológicos, configuram o que vem sendo chamado de colapso ecológico global. Se, sob tais transformações, percebemos que a Terra nunca consistiu num ambiente acabado e inerte – imagem prevalente desde ao menos a modernidade –, propomos que o conceito de acontecimento permite vislumbrar outras imagens da Terra. Isso porque ele possibilita não apenas analisar a processualidade em si mesma das dinâmicas que fazem a própria Terra, mas também compreender por que precisamos mais que nunca de um novo entendimento político (ou cosmopolítico, para falar como Isabelle Stengers) que coloque em outros termos as relações entre humanos e não humanos, natureza e cultura, indivíduos e seu meio. Concluímos a análise discutindo algumas consequências éticas e políticas que se desdobram dessa consideração da Terra como um acontecimento.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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>

A Specter Is Haunting Germany--the French Specter of Milieu

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Wolf Feuerhahn
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
French Theory ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Isabelle Stengers fought against a state-controlled form of science and saw “nomadic science/concepts” as a way to escape from it. The transnational history of the term milieu marks a good opportunity to contribute to another theory of nomadic vocabularies. Traveling from France to Germany, the word milieu came to be identified as a French theory. Milieu was seen as an expression of determinism, of the connection between the rise of the natural sciences and the rise of socialism, and it deterred the majority of German academics. Umwelt was thus coined as an “antimilieu” expression. This article defends a “transnational historical semantic” against the Koselleckian history of concepts and its a priori distinctions between words and concepts. Instead of taking its nature for granted, a transnational historical semantic investigation should analyze the terminological and national status given to the objects of investigation by the term's users.

The Care of the Possible

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Andermatt Conley
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Intermediate Form ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Ecological Thinking

In ecological thinking, the term care is of shifting valence. In philosophical and literary history, care is inflected as worrisome, burdensome, while, at the same time, uplifting and given to life. It has functional virtue in material practices based on what can be called an empathic relation. In recent critical texts addressing ecological dilemmas, care emerges as a diagram—an intermediate form—between possibility and event. Both palliative and favoring what is possible, care is inflected multifariously and with uncommon force of attraction in the materialist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari that inspires the work of Jane Bennett, Rosi Braidotti, Brian Massumi, Isabelle Stengers, Mark Hansen, and Jussi Parikka. In each, the care of the possible is based on experimentation and embrace of open-ended practice: collaboration rather than individual profit; posthumanism that recognizes universal entanglements; attention to the role technology plays in all spheres of inquiry; and, increasingly, sensors that produce a surplus of sensibility. This article argues that open-endedness, or possibility, has to be coupled with a palliative care brought to dwindling material resources.

The Death of Gilles Deleuze as Composition of a Concept

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Alain Beaulieu ◽  
Douglas Ord
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
Looking Glass

There was a wide range of in memoriam and homages published in the years following Deleuze's suicide. However, none of them succeeded in grasping ‘the evential’ aspect of his death. This paper identifies a series of errors in the literature on Deleuze's death. It also suggests a way to overcome them by considering a singular encounter between Alice's passage through the looking glass and Deleuze's defenestration, which both took place on 4 November. We will show how a new conception of death as event comes out of this unseen connection.

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