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DGS Conference Paper Abstracts and Bio Statements – FINAL Conference Abstracts for 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference Royal Holloway, University of London 8-10 July 2019 Alphabetical by first name Plenary Speakers Dr Beth Lord Title: Deleuze and Spinoza on Equality Abstract: In this paper I discuss with Deleuze the relationship between metaphysical and political senses of equality in Spinoza’s work. In Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, Deleuze interprets Spinoza through the core principles of univocity, expression, and immanence. On this basis he identifies equality – the equality of being to itself, the equality of the attributes, and the equality of modal series – as a key plank of Spinoza’s metaphysics. But there is a political valence to this interpretation, which leads to the view that an ontology in which all forms of being are equal necessarily gives way to egalitarian politics. I think there are problems with this way of interpreting Spinoza. I uphold Deleuze’s suggestion that we take equality seriously as a metaphysical concept, but I argue that we need to take a different starting point. Understanding equality geometrically, and in its geometrical potentialities, gives us a stronger and richer grounding for understanding Spinoza’s metaphysics and his political thought. Specifically, it allows us to see that while Spinoza rejects egalitarianism in its standard moral and political senses, he places a high value on social and economic equalities which lead to greater freedom and flourishing. Bio: Beth Lord is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (2011), Spinoza’s Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2010), and editor of Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012) and Spinoza’s Philosophy of Ratio (2018). Her work on Deleuze has focused on his interpretations of Kant and Spinoza. She is currently writing a book on Spinoza and equality. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Daniela Voss Title: The problem of method: Deleuze and Simondon Abstract: Deleuze held the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon in high esteem, as can be seen in his 1966 review of Simondon's book L'Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique, in which he claims that "few books can impress a reader as much as this one can" (DI 89). Traces of Simondon's thought can be found throughout Deleuze's work, in particular in Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense but also in his joint work with Félix Guattari, where Simondon's critique of hylomorphism is cited with approval. Deleuze and Simondon have much in common: they both advocate a conception of preindividual being that is freed from the shackles of unity and identity, a science of the individual that no longer classifies it according to generic and specific differences but through spatio-temporal dynamisms, a primacy of difference or disparation, which is presupposed by all other states, and a notion of the problem endowed with an objective sense. However, according to Deleuze, the “special importance” of Simondon’s book lies in its presentation of “a new conception of the transcendental” (LS 344 n3) – a claim that might have taken Simondon by surprise, since the notion of the transcendental appears only once in the whole book: in the last chapter where he discusses the collective as a condition of signification. What does Deleuze mean by this claim? How can Simondon’s philosophy have served as an inspiration for the transcendental empiricism that Deleuze develops in Difference and Repetition? This paper will show that Simondon himself could not have gone in the direction of constructing a new transcendental philosophy in the Deleuzian sense, due to his philosophical method and its implications. It is precisely in terms of method where the greatest divergence between the two thinkers is to be found. What this difference ultimately reveals is the nature of Deleuze’s adherence to structuralism and a dialectic of Ideas at this stage of his work. Bio: Daniela Voss is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim. Her fields of research include the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, post- Kantian philosophy, early modern philosophy and, more recently, philosophy of technology. She is the author of Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and co- editor with Craig Lundy of At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2015). Her journal publications include those in Angelaki, Australasian Philosophical Review, Continental Philosophy Review, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Parrhesia, Philosophy & Social Criticism. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Janae Sholtz Title: Deleuze's Inversion of Stoicism: Bodies, Sense, Quasi-Causality Abstract: In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze explicitly aligns his philosophy of the event with Stoic thought, elaborating upon the Stoic distinction between causal bodies and incorporeal effects to accommodate his ontology of the virtual and the actual, praising the Stoics as the first to ‘reverse Platonism,’ and maintaining that theirs is the only ethical position worth pursuing. While Deleuze invokes the Stoic sage as one who understands the pure event, the exact nature of the Deleuzian Event as well as Deleuze’s stance towards its bodily incorporation provide us with multiple points of dislocation of Deleuze’s philosophy from the Stoics. This paper addresses the way that Deleuze’s philosophy, while intimately bound to Stoicism, reflects its inversion in relation the overcoming of the boundary between self and cosmos, spiritual exercises, and relation to pathos/affect. Bio: Dr. Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University, Coordinator of Women's ad Gender Studies, and Alvernia Neag Professor. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political, Edinburgh Press (2015). She recently published “Deleuzian Creativity and Fluxus Nomadology’ in Evental Aesthetics and a special edition of Deleuze and Guattari Studies on Deleuze and Feminism. Her edited volume, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism: Alliances and Allies will be out in August. She is also co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben, to be released next Spring. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Jeffrey A. Bell Title: Deleuze and Infinitism Abstract: In this essay I attempt to provide an understanding of the various ways in which Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari use the notion of the infinite at crucial points in their arguments. Despite 2 the variety of contexts in which the infinite appears, from the infinite regress of sense in The Logic of Sense to the infinite speeds of chaos in What is Philosophy?, I argue that there is a persistent thread running throughout these various texts. By drawing on recent arguments in analytic philosophy in defense of infinitism, as well as from work on literacy and the psychology of reasoning, I attempt to clarify the manner in which Deleuze refuses to accept the assumptions that underlie the traditional use of the infinite in philosophical arguments, assumptions that are most significantly on display in the widespread use of infinite regress arguments throughout the philosophical tradition. What Deleuze offers instead is a metaphysics of problems that affirms, as do the infinitists, the reality of infinite series. Problems, we shall see, are precisely the conditions of relevance that allow for the possibility of the infinite speeds of chaos, the infinite regress and paradox of sense, to become a determinate, finite given. In short, I will argue that for Deleuze the finite and determinate needs to be thought in terms of the infinite and indeterminate rather than the infinite being thought in terms of the finite and determinate. Bio: Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. During the Autumn term of 2019, Bell will be a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Bell has written and edited several books on Deleuze, history of philosophy, and analytic and continental philosophy, along with numerous chapters in edited collections. Bell is currently at work on his next book, Truth and Relevance: An Essay on Metaphysics and Politics, to be published by Edinburgh University Press. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Leonard Lawlor Title: The Ultimate Meaning of Counter-Actualization: On the Ethics of the Univocity of Being in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense Abstract: As is well-known, Deleuze says in Difference and Repetition that “the task of contemporary philosophy has been defined: to reverse Platonism” (Deleuze 1994, 59). This task is then continued in Logic of Sense, through its discussion of Stoic logic. Deleuze says there that “the Stoics are the first to reverse Platonism” (Deleuze 1990, 7). And, at the same time, in the big Spinoza book, we see Deleuze present Spinoza’s “anti-Cartesian reaction” (Deleuze 1990a, 321). This anti-Cartesian reaction is equivalent to the reversal of Platonism. We can say then that the task of the
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