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Deleuze

The Greatness and Fall of French Philosophy

ESSAY: The Golden Age of French philosophy (1945–1989) created something great. An atmosphere, a new way of thinking, a new way of being. A freedom-hungry life experiment. So what then went wrong?
Alexander Carnera -

Sacher-Masoch and masochism as resistance

In the book Présentation de #Sacher-Masoch#, Deleuze presents a psychodynamic analysis of the German history professor Leopold Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Fur from 1870....
Knut Stene Johansen -

Death – more or less real

THE REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. Let me therefore suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also what a new translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about the film's contact with reality.
Truls Lie -

Political biology

DESIRE: About the intersex subject and revolutionary impatience. A resistance made possible by the 'potentia gaudendi', the reserve of unrestrained 'pleasure potency' which constitutes the basic assumption of the philosophy of desire from Reich to Deleuze and Guattari. 'Polemical non-fiction'? Paul B. Preciado takes up Engels' confrontation with the norms of "the family, the state and private property".
Carsten Juhl -

ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Is it only now that individualism, the cultivation of individuals, with new technology such as ChatGPT, is about to change?
Truls Lie -

Libidinous ecology

CRISIS Is nature in its essence erotic? And has capitalism – which will make us desire more of everything – overused our very capacity for desire?
Anders Dunk -

Bjørneboe, Gateavisa, and post-anarchism

Is it possible that traits from anarchism still have great validity for some of us today?
Truls Lie -

Diverse immersion in change

Deleuze's Leibniz book is the most complex philosopher wrote, but also a Bible for those who want to delve into his concept of becoming.
Kjetil Røed -

The wind in the picture

In a time of multitasking, media noise and digital currents, Straub-Huillet's films stand as immovable stones – which ask us to listen to the wind. Exhibition at the Art Academy in Trondheim
endreeid@gmail.com -

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