Video on Deleuze

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

Samim-Heater

Samim- Heater

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/

Philosophy is creation

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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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

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How to think immanence?

Take, for example, Plato’s Meno and Phaedo. It will be recalled that Plato famously argues that learning is recollection. That is, to learn is not to acquire new information from the outside given to us by a teacher– elsewhere Socrates will refer to himself as a midwife of knowledge, i.e., he does not bestow or give knowledge but only asks questions that allow a person to recollect knowledge they already have –but rather to learn is to recollect an unconscious, innate knowledge. Read more here

Good and bad procrastination

The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well. Read more here in this blog by Paul Graham

Saying and Seeing - Deleuze on Foucault

Deleuze is insistent in his book on Foucault: despite appearances, despite the fact his recently deceased friend placed emphasis on discourse, he was a thinker of what Deleuze calls visibilities (and we should not be too quick to look for a definition of this word). Read more

Beyond Signification - The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism

Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.

Volcanic Lines: Deleuze at Greenwich

Staging EncountersVolcanic Lines: Deleuzian Research Group is based in the University of Greenwich Philosophy Department. The department is located on the Maritime Greenwich campus of the University in one of the baroque courts that make up the Old Royal Naval College, a World Heritage Site on the banks of the River Thames. The launch of the Research Group in Autumn 2006 followed the success of The Work of Gilles Deleuze International Conference in July 2006. Its aim is to organise events focusing on a diverse range of philosophers.The Deleuzian inspiration is to stage encounters between different figures and test the limits of this approach. It will not be restricted to considering only the encounters Deleuze himself staged and developed. It will seek to continue his approach of seeking more challenging encounters and indeed questioning whether his own work was either too narrow, in excluding figures such as Hegel, or too broad in its range to be effective. Does it make sense to talk about encounters if they can produce anything and involve any thinker? The research group will also have an interdisciplinary edge, tapping into Deleuze research in departments other than philosophy. In this way it will be both radical and boundary breaking whilst being rigorous and critical in testing the limits and depths of the Deleuzian practice of encounter.

Blog: Struggles with philosophy

If the politics of Deleuze and Guattari seem implicit or are lost in their rhetoric then Brian Massumi comes across explicitly. This blog features some quotes from his 'Introduction to Capitalism and Schizophrenia' book about gender and singularities...

Lecture on Deleuze by Manuel DeLanda at the European Graduate School

This is a lecture on Deleuze by Manuel DeLanda.
Deleuze and his "neo-materialism": Deleuze's realist position acknowledges that there is a world outside the human world and there is non-human expressivity. Which is not to be mixed up with materialism ...
In "What is philosophy" Deleuze singles out the Becoming-other; becoming animal, becoming mountain, becoming molecular ...

The London Research and Consulting Group

The London Research and Consulting Group (LRCG) is a space for knowledge generation, reflection and innovation. LRCG adds a unique cultural competence: the capacity to develop insights and solutions for research and intervention in an international context.

Conversation Agent

Your Face, Everywhere -- Are There Too Many Social Networks?

In the last three days I received two invitation to join Facebook, one invitation to join Pownce and two inquiries about my Twitter address (see an analysis by USAToday). Mind you, I have a profile on LinkedIn, and an old one on Ryze -- remember that one? Does anyone use it anymore? And let's not forget Jaiku.
Why do we need so many tools for social interactions? Have we suddenly become incapable of interacting with our friends, neighbors and colleagues?
Have we become so isolated in our daily work life as agents of our destiny that we need to have surrogate environments to hang out? Read more here

Visiref

Qui est le mieux référencé et positionnésur les moteurs de recherche pour un mot clé donné ? www.visiref.com

Innovative teaching...

Flexible learning environments combined with innovative teaching methods help students at the LSE to plan for and manage their MSc thesis projects.

La bibliotheque Next Moderne

Le monde change! La bibliotheque Next Moderne presente une selection d'ouvrages, des interviews des auteurs, des conferences audio et video qui temoignent des evolutions en cours...

Podcast on social/consumer psychology

Podcast interview with Alain Samson, an independent research consultant and social/consumer psychologist at the London School of Economics. He discusses how his academic background in social/consumer psychology has shaped his word-of-mouth research, particularly advocacy. He also reveals his research findings about the Net Promoter Score’s strengths and weakness, and looks at how research into advocacy and co-creation could be aligned.

With all senses

With all senses, The first book on how to eliminate interfering sound in the car.
This book by Klaus Steinberg addresses innovative techniques of how to combat interfering noises in the conception and design of automobiles.
Interfering noises (or interfering sounds) are sounds with a negative sound quality, that is, the sound event leads to a hearing event, which is perceived as unpleasant, disturbing and interfering. This sound event usually releases negative associations as regards the suitability of the product and it is on the whole perceived as not matching the product.

Product & Furniture Design

As a product designer and a curator, MICHAEL MARRIOTT (1963-) explores the influence of objects, and the way they are constructed, on our daily lives. His goal is to design “truly modern objects” through “the honest and appropriate use of material, process and function”.

Enviro-Entrepreneurship School

The Enviro-Entrepreneur School is open to all aspiring entrepreneurs who have a great idea for a sustainable business or want to create an exciting recyclable and recycled content product. It is open to all sectors and is particularly suited to Arts, Engineering and Creative Industry graduates and alumni who want to make or design something using recycled and recyclable materials as well as business specialists who want to develop a sustainable business.

Striding out

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Striding out in business can be an amazing experience but equally challenging. We believe that a supportive community of individuals and access to the right inspiration, connections and resources can make it much easier to succeed.
The Striding Out community consists of pro-active, like-minded individuals who actively learn, support and connect with each other, to develop essential entrepreneurial skills and supportive relationships.

Social Entreprise London

The social enterprise sector in London and the rest of the UK hosts many events, seminar and conferences all year round. If you have an event you would like to advertise on this page, please email Faradane@sel.org.uk

Global management challenge

The Global Management Challenge is a student game. Over 350,000 university students and junior managers have played the world’s largest strategic management competition since its inception in 1980. This year, 19,000 students will play the GMC in 25 countries.
Student teams signing up for the GMC will be assigned to a real world company. Companies cover their teams' registration fees, so students do not have to pay themselves in order to participate. Additionally, companies may choose to mentor their players in business strategy and game tactics.
In October 2007, the competition will begin and each student team will be given the management of a virtual company. The teams then develop this virtual company by making a series of decisions relating to every aspect of the business.
Their decisions are run through sophisticated business simulation software, which generates in-depth management reports. The aim is to finish the game with the highest price on the virtual stock exchange.

Stanford Prison Experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment : What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

Smoke-o-scope

Will your life be a long and happy one? Will your future be marked by love, health, and a successful career? If you answer the questions below, Joe Chemo will predict your future with a personalized Smoke-o-Scope.

The jigsaw classroom

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique with a three-decade track record of successfully reducing racial conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece--each student's part--is essential for the completion and full understanding of the final product. If each student's part is essential, then each student is essential; and that is precisely what makes this strategy so effective.

Reputation Research Network

The Reputation Research Network is about research on reputation systems. A reputation system gives people information about others' past performance. It can enhance an on-line interaction environment by:
helping people decide who to trust;
encouraging people to be more trustworthy;
discouraging those who are not trustworthy from participating.

This site is for researchers who are studying how reputation systems should work in theory, how they actually work in practice, and how they could work better. You can find out about people, papers, and practical systems. And you can contribute pointers to useful information.

Animals on the underground

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Post secret blog

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

What is an effective organizational leader?

Softlink International & Associates' high performance trainings include teaching best practices in management and experential sessions. Based on the client's needs, we follow the progress of the manager-leader with one-on-one coaching.

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Afroreggae

Afroreggae is a Brazilian hybrid organisation - NGO, cultural group, percussion band and social movement - working with the poorest and most violent communities in Rio. They have one central aim: to take young people out of the drug trade through arts based activities that reclaim local knowledge and local culture as a means for empowerment, development and identity transformation. What lessons can be learned from novel forms of social organisation that produce social policy from below and challenge traditional markers of social identity? What are the challenges and potentials involved in translating the experience of Afroreggae to different contexts?Paul Heritage is Professor of Drama and Performance at Queen's Mary, University of London, Sandra Jovchelovitch is Director of the MSc inS ocial and Cultural Psychology, LSE, Anderson Sa is the lead singer of Afro Reggae and the featured subject of the documentary Favela Raising A short film by renowed documentary-maker Nick Francis will be shownduring the event.

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Fondation FREE

FREE encourage le développement de l’esprit d’entreprendre au sein de la population francophone de Belgique. Sa vocation est d’être : un lieu apolitique rassemblant les différents efforts qui visent à développer le goût d’entreprendre ; un point d’ancrage pour tous les projets qui poursuivent cet objectif. L’ambition de FREE est donc de se positionner comme un acteur clé du développement de l’esprit d’entreprendre en Belgique francophone et de devenir une référence en la matière au niveau européen.

The Evolution of Dance

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Spritivity: The spaces in between

Spritivity is a workshop developed by Zenzone Media Lab of the China Culture Administration Society in Beijing, China. It originated in a project linking Chinese and Japanese Schools It is now being developed, as a joint effort with the London Multimedia Lab for Audio-visual Composition and Communication at LSE, to offer communication between students in primary schools in China and England, working together to explain, share and explore how they understand and can animate their environments they inhabit. Spritivity, as a communication medium, relies on developing a picture language for making and exchanging stories, where the key characters are sprites extracted by the students themselves from photographs which they take of those specific parts of the environment which interests each of them.

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The emancipated worker?

Are contemporary workers are isolated, alienated and repressed human ruins - as popular discourse and beliefs would have it - or are people working in the pioneering conditions of the information age actually quite like their working realities and actively participate in their reconstruction and reproduction?
What if, in fact, in the avant-garde professional work organisations of the information age, working subjects already largely experience themselves as emancipated? But, even if this seems to be the case, might there be more subtle mechanisms of control at play?

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