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Video on Deleuze

2007-11-25T08:38:00.000-08:00

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

Samim-Heater

2007-11-09T12:18:00.000-08:00

Fractalontology

2007-11-09T12:11:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-09T12:02:00.001-08:00

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.

All the most popular social psychology experiments...

2007-11-09T11:58:00.000-08:00

here: http://www.spring.org.uk/

The emerging mind

2007-10-24T13:19:00.000-07:00

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

CHECK JOB VACANCIES ON THE EUROPEAN RESEARCHER'S MOBILITY PORTAL

2007-10-09T23:42:00.000-07:00

PORTAL: http://ec.europa.eu/eracareers/index_en.cfm?l1=13

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How to think immanence?

2007-09-16T12:11:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-09T01:56:00.001-07:00

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

2007-08-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-15T01:55:00.001-07:00

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

2007-08-15T01:35:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-07T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-07T00:53:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-23T23:36:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-20T05:42:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-19T14:10:00.000-07:00

Visiref

2007-07-19T04:46:00.000-07:00

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

Innovative teaching...

2007-07-19T04:04:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-19T03:49:00.001-07:00

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

2007-07-19T03:47:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-01T05:17:00.000-07:00

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

2007-06-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

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

2007-06-30T14:03:00.000-07:00

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