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Deleuze Connections

Deleuze and Cosmology

Edited by Janae Sholtz and Alain Beaulieu

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Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze’s philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation

  • Illuminates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze’s thinking on art, philosophy and the sciences, generating new understanding of the relation between chaos, creativity and thought
  • Offers detailed analyses of Deleuze’s cosmological theories in relation to ancient philosophy, key figures in the continental tradition, and important discoveries and innovations in the contemporary sciences
  • Conducts innovative analysis of several cosmological theories in science – including quantum theory, loop quantum gravity and string theory – in relation to Deleuze’s key concepts of time, creation, variation, chance and chaos
  • Highlights how addressing the cosmological from multiple disciplinary, theoretical and aesthetic perspectives is crucial to the genesis of the new and the mutual revival of the disciplines

This edited collection investigates how Deleuze’s interventions into cosmological thinking have transformed, challenged, influenced or been influenced by how cosmology has been thought and determined from the perspectives of the philosophic tradition, science and the arts.

These 16 essays apply Deleuze’s cosmological perspective to a range of scientific, metaphysical, philosophical and aesthetic issues, illustrating the intertwinement of the various modes of thought (philosophy, science and arts) on a cosmic scale, which lead to new ways of understanding relational beings, time/space, processes of variation, folding, potentiality and creativity. By integrating the observations and speculations of quantum theory, as well as other areas of cosmological thinking, with Deleuze’s cosmological vision, we find that philosophy, sciences and arts can provide each other with mutual inspiration, pushing the boundaries of thought to the outer reaches of the known and beyond.

Reviews

This is an exciting collection of essays. The editors have brought together a number of leading scholars to take on themes of vital interest, and they have each provided high quality work. Going forward, this book will provide an important resource for a number of current debates.
Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Illustrations

Introduction: Toward a New Cosmic Sensitivity
Janae Sholtz and Alain Beaulieu

Part I. Creative Cosmology: Chaos and the Cosmic
1. What is Invention? Deleuze and Guattari and the New
Dorothea Olkowski
2. Deleuze, an Unwitting Milesian?
Arnaud Villani
3. Cosmic Triptych: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Exploration of the Transistantial, the Fleeting and the Akoúômorphical
Antoine Renzo
4. A Plastic Vortex of Spinning Waste
Macarena Rioseco

Part II. Infinite Cosmologies: Perspectives, Foldings & Time
5. Points of View: Deleuze, Leibniz and the New Cosmology
Debjyoti Sarkar
6. The Lily of the Field Sings the Glory of the Heavens: The Cosmos of the Fold
Brian Noonan
7. Deleuze’s The Fold and String Theory
Ewa Szumilewicz
8. Aion/Chronos and Living Time?
Russell Duvernoy

Part III. Cosmologies of the Quantum
9. Deleuze and Decoherence: Approaching the Measurement Problem through Intensity
Michael J. Ardoline
10. The Chaosmic of the Quantum, with Gilles Deleuze
Arkady Plotnitsky
11. Immanence, Process and Relationalism in Loop Quantum Gravity
Martin Calamari
12. Zig-Zagging Through the Deleuzian Virtual: The Dark Universe of Diagrams, Cosmology, and Quantum
jan jagodzinski

Part IV. Comparative Cosmologies
13. Caught Between a Sufficient Cosmos and a Chaosmos: Laruelle, Deleuze and Guattari on Philosophy, Cosmology and the Real
Chantelle Gray
14. Biological Philosophy and Geophilosophy in the Shadow of Cosmology: Reading Canguilhem with Deleuze and Guattari
Samuel Talcott
15. Modality as virtuality versus modality as possibility: Gilles Deleuze and David Lewis
Ilona Schweitzer
16. Deleuze, Whitehead and Process Cosmology
Keith Robinson

Notes on contributors
Index

About the contributors

Janae Sholtz

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, PA. She is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Identity and Diversity at North-West University, South Africa. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh UP 2015), co-editor of Deleuze and Cosmology: Between Art, Philosophy and the Sciences (Edinburgh UP 2026), co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben (Bloomsbury UP 2020) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Edinburgh Press 2019). She is currently working on a project on love, death and the fragility of relations.

Alain Beaulieu

Alain Beaulieu is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University, Canada. He has a Doctorat de 3e cycle in philosophy from the Université de Paris 8 with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze et la phénoménologie (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2nd ed. 2006). He published Cuerpo y acontecimiento. La estética de Gilles Deleuze (Letra Viva, 2012), Gilles Deleuze et ses contemporains (Harmattan, 2011) and (co)edited the following works: Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics (Lexington, 2014), Abécédaire de Martin Heidegger (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2008), Michel Foucault and Power Today (Lexington, 2006), Gilles Deleuze. Héritage philosophique (PUF, 2005), as well as Michel Foucault et le contrôle social (PU Laval, 2nd ed. 2008).

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