Deleuze & How to Live the Anti-Fascist Life and Endure the Pain
Deleuze Seminar 2017-2018
Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn
Time: Wednesday afternoons, 13.00-16.00
Location: Stijlkamer van Ravensteijn, Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 80, Utrecht University.
Organised by: the OSL (Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies) with the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University
Convened by: Professor Rosi Braidotti with Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University) and student working groups (Discussion group “The Joyful Nomads”,…)
Registration: please send an e-mail, including a biographical text of up to 100 words stating your affiliation and motivation for the seminar, to Paul Koopman, osl-fgw@uva.nl and Professor Braidotti’s assistant: gw.braidottiass@uu.nl.
For more information about Deleuze seminars and other activities please consult the website of the Deleuze Circle: http://deleuzecircle.wp.hum.uu.nl/
The seminar consists of ten sessions in English which will run throughout the academic year 2017-2018 in Utrecht. Research masters and PhD students, as well as staff members, are welcome to participate. Students can get credits for their participation by attending regularly (attendance will be registered) and writing a final paper. Each session of the three-hour seminar will consist of an in-depth reading of a text by Gilles Deleuze (with or without Felix Guattari), sometimes alongside secondary texts by other theorists or philosophers.
Participants are expected to acquire the literature themselves, but wherever possible we will make pdf files available.
DRAFT SEMINAR PROGRAMME
SESSION 1: Introduction to the non-fascist Life
(Braidotti & Dolphijn)
13 September 2017
Reading material:
- Braidotti, R. 2016. “Don’t Agonise, Organise!” E-Fluxhttps://conversations.e-flux.com/t/rosi-braidotti-don-t-agonize-organize/5294
- Preface to Anti-Oedipus by Michel Foucault.
- Parr, Adrian. 2010. The Deleuze Dictionary, Revised Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press. Section on: “Fascism”
SESSION 2: The Despotic State Machine
(Braidotti & Dolphijn)
11 October 2017
Reading Material:
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 1983 Anti-Oedipus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Originally published in 1972, by Les Editions de Minuit, Paris.). Chapter 3: “Savages, Barbarians Civilized Men”:
o section 6: “The barbarian despotic machine”: p. 191-200;
o section 9: “The civilized capitalist machine” and section 10: “Capitalist Representation”: p. 222-262
SESSION 3: Micropolitics
(Braidotti and Dolphijn)
8 November 2017
Reading material:
- Deleuze and Guattari: “9 Micropolitics and segmentary”, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987: p. 208-231.
- Parr, Adrian. 2010. The Deleuze Dictionary, Revised Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press. Section on: “Micropolitics”
- Parr, Adrian. 2010. The Deleuze Dictionary, Revised Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press. Section on: “Stratification”
- Guattari: ‘Everybody wants to be a Fascist’, in: Lotringer, Sylvère (ed.) Chaosophy, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), pp. 154-175 and 225-251.
SESSION 4: The Desire for a Strong Leader
(Braidotti and Dolphijn)
13 December 2017
Reading Material:
- Deleuze and Guattari. “On European Racism and the White Face of Christ” (7: Year Zero: Faciality ATP 167-192
- Braidotti, R. ‘Punk Women and Riot Grrls’, in: Performance Philosophy journal, Vol. 1, April 2015. http://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/32/64
SESSION 5: The Over-coding of Flows
(Student Working Group 1 presents)
14/21 February 2018
Reading Material:
- The War machine (12: 1227: Treatise on Nomadology – the War Machine 351-387 (part I)
SESSION 6: Micro-Fascism and Fascist Desire
(Student Working Group 2 presents)
21 March 2018
Reading Material:
- The War machine (12: 1227: Treatise on Nomadology – the War Machine 387-424 (part II)
SESSION 7: Segmentarity
(Braidotti & The Joyful Nomads?)
11 April 2018
Reading Material:
- special issue of E-Flux #83 (June 2016) – 9 articles http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/
- Parr, Adrian. 2010. The Deleuze Dictionary, Revised Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press. Section on: “Desire”
SESSION 8: International Deleuze Studies Day in Utrecht
16 May 2018
SESSION 9: Deleuze and Us
13 June 2018
Reading Material:
- R. Braidotti: Nomadic Theory, ch. 11: “Sustainable Ethics and the Body in Pain”: 299-324.
- Deleuze, Gilles. 1988. “Ch.2: On Difference between the Ethics and a Morality;
- Ch. 3: The Letters on Evil (correspondence with Blyenbergh);
- Ch. 6: Spinoza and Us”. In: Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. San Francisco: City Lights Books. (Originally published in 1970, by Presses Universitaires de France.)
SESSION 10: Final Presentation of all Projects
(Braidotti and Dolphijn)