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dimanche 25 novembre 2007

Video on Deleuze

Video on Deleuze 1980 http://www.continental-philosophy.org/2007/11/19/video-deleuze/

vendredi 9 novembre 2007

Fractalontology

One of the finest blogs on ontology: http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/translation-veronique-bergens-diagram-of-the-evolution-of-deleuzian-concepts/

Deleuze calls philosophy as an attempt to look and seek concepts, a discipline that is just as inventive as any other discipline, and it consists in creating or inventing concepts. Concepts have to be produced. Philosophy tells stories, stories with concepts. He constantly compares the concepts within philosophy to cinema, to scientific activity, as each new philosophical concept is akin to movements within cinema.

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mercredi 24 octobre 2007

The emerging mind

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. But just think of what's involved. You have two tiny upside down distorted images inside your eyeballs but what you see is a vivid three-dimensional world out there in front of you and this transformation is nothing short of a miracle. How does it come about?
Listen to this BBC Reith lecture by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran