The importance that Deleuze attributes to syntax, as that which tends towards the movement of the... more The importance that Deleuze attributes to syntax, as that which tends towards the movement of the concept, along with his analyses of the different ways in which English and French relate to “becoming,” form the basis on which this article investigates the question of whether a “theory of translation” can be found in Deleuze’s thought. In this perspective, we examine the intersection between several key concepts in Deleuze’s philosophy and theories of translation dealing with the comparative syntax of English and French. Analysis of the concepts of actualisation, virtual and actual, as used by both Deleuze and comparative syntax theorists, indicates that the internal temporality Deleuze attributes to language would play a critical role in translation.
Philosophy Today Special Issue: Indifference to Difference: Critical Engagements with Alain Badiou. Volume 62, Issue 4, Fall., 2018
Badiou's contemporary claim that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to se... more Badiou's contemporary claim that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to sexual difference is set here in the context of the French philosophical moment of the second half of the twentieth century—a sequence in which the deployment of the category of “the feminine” by Badiou's philosophical peers precisely entailed a formalization of women's different relation to “the symbolic.” When compared, in particular, with the philosophy of sexual difference elaborated by Luce Irigaray, Badiou's intertwining of “woman,” love and the universal—both pre- and post- his inflexion on the sexuation of truths—is confronted to the systematic counter-proposition of alternative conceptual constellations. Might it not, then, be possible that the comparison of Badiou and Irigaray ultimately brings into play something of the order of a demonstration of thought's sexuation?
Badiou and his Interlocutors. Lectures, Interviews and Responses. Edited by A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens., 2018
In 2011 Badiou gave a conference in which, contrary to his core tenet of truths' trans-particul... more In 2011 Badiou gave a conference in which, contrary to his core tenet of truths' trans-particularity, he was to proclaim rather startlingly that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to sexual difference. My text investigates the tensions in Badiou's conceptual apparatus that might have led him to this inflexion of his thesis of the neutrality of the universal by charting the adventures of "woman" with, and in, the universal over the course of Badiou's work.
The historical archive of Architecture and Feminism displays two strikingly divergent interpretat... more The historical archive of Architecture and Feminism displays two strikingly divergent interpretations of the feminine "space" that Plato designated under the name, amongst others, of chôra.
Elizabeth Grosz's 1994 paper "Women, Chora, Dwelling" judges chôra to be "a founding concept" of the "disembodied femininity" that, associated within our tradition with determinations of space as homogeneous and undifferentiated, has served as the ground for the production of our ever-increasingly inequitable and unsustainable, "man-made" world. Grosz concludes that chôra offers no resources for rethinking space, time, and dwelling, and specifically queries the value of Jacques Derrida's reconceptualization of chôra, space and spatiality.
Ann Bergren's "Architecture Gender Philosophy" (1992) equally contests Derrida's interpretation of chôra, maintaining—as does Grosz—that Derrida is complicitous with Plato's attributing a fundamental passivity to chôra. Bergren distinguishes this "passified chôra" from what she aptly calls the "pre-architectural chôra": namely, the chôra as it exists primordially, in an ever-changing state of moving, differential multiplicity, before its subjection to the processes of geometrization, commensuration and domestication overseen by the Demiurge-Architect of Plato's Timeaus. For Bergren, however, chôra yield this "pre-cosmic", active and femininely-connoted chôra could, in its feminist implications, open up a radically new approach to architecture.
I would like to revisit these texts dealing with chôra, architecture, and "the feminine"—Bergren's and Grosz's, along with Plato's, Derrida's, Eisenman's and Irigaray's—in order to reexhume, or refashion, a concept of space that might make room for another conceptual and social universe.
Early Bird Registrations for the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Topologies of Sexua... more Early Bird Registrations for the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Topologies of Sexual Difference, are closing on Friday October 24 at midnight Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time. For more information about the conference see the RMIT website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/topologies2014. You contact the conference organizers at irigaray14@gmail.com
Versions papier et électronique : le numéro est expédié par poste. Il est également accessible im... more Versions papier et électronique : le numéro est expédié par poste. Il est également accessible immédiatement en ligne. ... Versions papier et électronique : les numéros sont expédié par poste au fur et à mesure de leur parution. Tous les numéros en ligne sont immédiatement ...
The importance that Deleuze attributes to syntax, as that which tends towards the movement of the... more The importance that Deleuze attributes to syntax, as that which tends towards the movement of the concept, along with his analyses of the different ways in which English and French relate to “becoming,” form the basis on which this article investigates the question of whether a “theory of translation” can be found in Deleuze’s thought. In this perspective, we examine the intersection between several key concepts in Deleuze’s philosophy and theories of translation dealing with the comparative syntax of English and French. Analysis of the concepts of actualisation, virtual and actual, as used by both Deleuze and comparative syntax theorists, indicates that the internal temporality Deleuze attributes to language would play a critical role in translation.
Philosophy Today Special Issue: Indifference to Difference: Critical Engagements with Alain Badiou. Volume 62, Issue 4, Fall., 2018
Badiou's contemporary claim that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to se... more Badiou's contemporary claim that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to sexual difference is set here in the context of the French philosophical moment of the second half of the twentieth century—a sequence in which the deployment of the category of “the feminine” by Badiou's philosophical peers precisely entailed a formalization of women's different relation to “the symbolic.” When compared, in particular, with the philosophy of sexual difference elaborated by Luce Irigaray, Badiou's intertwining of “woman,” love and the universal—both pre- and post- his inflexion on the sexuation of truths—is confronted to the systematic counter-proposition of alternative conceptual constellations. Might it not, then, be possible that the comparison of Badiou and Irigaray ultimately brings into play something of the order of a demonstration of thought's sexuation?
Badiou and his Interlocutors. Lectures, Interviews and Responses. Edited by A.J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens., 2018
In 2011 Badiou gave a conference in which, contrary to his core tenet of truths' trans-particul... more In 2011 Badiou gave a conference in which, contrary to his core tenet of truths' trans-particularity, he was to proclaim rather startlingly that truth processes can no longer be considered as indifferent to sexual difference. My text investigates the tensions in Badiou's conceptual apparatus that might have led him to this inflexion of his thesis of the neutrality of the universal by charting the adventures of "woman" with, and in, the universal over the course of Badiou's work.
The historical archive of Architecture and Feminism displays two strikingly divergent interpretat... more The historical archive of Architecture and Feminism displays two strikingly divergent interpretations of the feminine "space" that Plato designated under the name, amongst others, of chôra.
Elizabeth Grosz's 1994 paper "Women, Chora, Dwelling" judges chôra to be "a founding concept" of the "disembodied femininity" that, associated within our tradition with determinations of space as homogeneous and undifferentiated, has served as the ground for the production of our ever-increasingly inequitable and unsustainable, "man-made" world. Grosz concludes that chôra offers no resources for rethinking space, time, and dwelling, and specifically queries the value of Jacques Derrida's reconceptualization of chôra, space and spatiality.
Ann Bergren's "Architecture Gender Philosophy" (1992) equally contests Derrida's interpretation of chôra, maintaining—as does Grosz—that Derrida is complicitous with Plato's attributing a fundamental passivity to chôra. Bergren distinguishes this "passified chôra" from what she aptly calls the "pre-architectural chôra": namely, the chôra as it exists primordially, in an ever-changing state of moving, differential multiplicity, before its subjection to the processes of geometrization, commensuration and domestication overseen by the Demiurge-Architect of Plato's Timeaus. For Bergren, however, chôra yield this "pre-cosmic", active and femininely-connoted chôra could, in its feminist implications, open up a radically new approach to architecture.
I would like to revisit these texts dealing with chôra, architecture, and "the feminine"—Bergren's and Grosz's, along with Plato's, Derrida's, Eisenman's and Irigaray's—in order to reexhume, or refashion, a concept of space that might make room for another conceptual and social universe.
Early Bird Registrations for the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Topologies of Sexua... more Early Bird Registrations for the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Topologies of Sexual Difference, are closing on Friday October 24 at midnight Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time. For more information about the conference see the RMIT website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/topologies2014. You contact the conference organizers at irigaray14@gmail.com
Versions papier et électronique : le numéro est expédié par poste. Il est également accessible im... more Versions papier et électronique : le numéro est expédié par poste. Il est également accessible immédiatement en ligne. ... Versions papier et électronique : les numéros sont expédié par poste au fur et à mesure de leur parution. Tous les numéros en ligne sont immédiatement ...
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Elizabeth Grosz's 1994 paper "Women, Chora, Dwelling" judges chôra to be "a founding concept" of the "disembodied femininity" that, associated within our tradition with determinations of space as homogeneous and undifferentiated, has served as the ground for the production of our ever-increasingly inequitable and unsustainable, "man-made" world. Grosz concludes that chôra offers no resources for rethinking space, time, and dwelling, and specifically queries the value of Jacques Derrida's reconceptualization of chôra, space and spatiality.
Ann Bergren's "Architecture Gender Philosophy" (1992) equally contests Derrida's interpretation of chôra, maintaining—as does Grosz—that Derrida is complicitous with Plato's attributing a fundamental passivity to chôra. Bergren distinguishes this "passified chôra" from what she aptly calls the "pre-architectural chôra": namely, the chôra as it exists primordially, in an ever-changing state of moving, differential multiplicity, before its subjection to the processes of geometrization, commensuration and domestication overseen by the Demiurge-Architect of Plato's Timeaus. For Bergren, however, chôra yield this "pre-cosmic", active and femininely-connoted chôra could, in its feminist implications, open up a radically new approach to architecture.
I would like to revisit these texts dealing with chôra, architecture, and "the feminine"—Bergren's and Grosz's, along with Plato's, Derrida's, Eisenman's and Irigaray's—in order to reexhume, or refashion, a concept of space that might make room for another conceptual and social universe.
For more information about the conference see the RMIT website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/topologies2014.
You contact the conference organizers at irigaray14@gmail.com
Elizabeth Grosz's 1994 paper "Women, Chora, Dwelling" judges chôra to be "a founding concept" of the "disembodied femininity" that, associated within our tradition with determinations of space as homogeneous and undifferentiated, has served as the ground for the production of our ever-increasingly inequitable and unsustainable, "man-made" world. Grosz concludes that chôra offers no resources for rethinking space, time, and dwelling, and specifically queries the value of Jacques Derrida's reconceptualization of chôra, space and spatiality.
Ann Bergren's "Architecture Gender Philosophy" (1992) equally contests Derrida's interpretation of chôra, maintaining—as does Grosz—that Derrida is complicitous with Plato's attributing a fundamental passivity to chôra. Bergren distinguishes this "passified chôra" from what she aptly calls the "pre-architectural chôra": namely, the chôra as it exists primordially, in an ever-changing state of moving, differential multiplicity, before its subjection to the processes of geometrization, commensuration and domestication overseen by the Demiurge-Architect of Plato's Timeaus. For Bergren, however, chôra yield this "pre-cosmic", active and femininely-connoted chôra could, in its feminist implications, open up a radically new approach to architecture.
I would like to revisit these texts dealing with chôra, architecture, and "the feminine"—Bergren's and Grosz's, along with Plato's, Derrida's, Eisenman's and Irigaray's—in order to reexhume, or refashion, a concept of space that might make room for another conceptual and social universe.
For more information about the conference see the RMIT website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/topologies2014.
You contact the conference organizers at irigaray14@gmail.com