[Claude Monet's La Gare Saint Lazare (1877)] In the preface to the English edition of Difference and Repetition (1968; 1994), Gilles Deleuze writes “that there is a more or less implicit, tacit or presupposed image of thought which determines our goals when we try to think” (xvi). This is the infamous image of thought that…
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[A demagogue; Image from Teaching American History] What is a regime of signs? A semiotic machine, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari state in A Thousand Plateaus. In “On Several Regimes of Signs,” they call Ferdinand de Saussure’s structuralist linguistic of the sign—the linguistic system that privileges the signifier and its signifying function—semiology—but one regime of…
It’s been over a month since my last post and I apologize for not having had any significant activity of late. As a rule, I intended to come out with at least one post every week, but obviously I’ve been falling short of that for the past quarter or so. It’s just that the latter…
[How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water by Arthur Beardsley] [All quotes are from Arthur Danto’s general introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche; A more critical discussion can be found in the Nietzsche chapter of Michael Hardt’s Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, based on Gilles Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy.] Nietzsche has expressed the…
