Author Archives: Jeffrey Bell

Degrees of Difference and Working Façades

Posted on February 27, 2013

This is cross-posted from NewAPPS (where I’ve been posting for a while, though I may begin posting more here) John’s nice post has reminded me of the importance of repetitive series for Deleuze (an issue I also discuss here). Picking up on John’s … Continue reading →

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Deleuze Studies Conference website is up!

Posted on August 9, 2011

The Fifth International Deleuze Studies Conference in New Orleans now has its own website – http://deleuze2012.com

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Deleuze Studies Conference 2012

Posted on July 7, 2011

Now that the Copenhagen conference is finished, and Bent and his team did an excellent job putting on this year’s conference, it’s time to begin thinking about the 2012 conference in New Orleans. The title/theme of the conference is “Deterritorializing … Continue reading →

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“everything can be said”

Posted on June 9, 2011

Over at New APPS I’ve posted on the night Kafka wrote his story, “The Judgment,” which marked a turning point and watershed event in his life as a writer. I use this ‘event’ to contrast my understanding of “Ideas” as … Continue reading →

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Continental Connections

Posted on May 26, 2011

I’ve begun a weekly blog post over at New APPS, what I’m calling Continental Connections Thursday. My intention is to write much along the lines of what I’ve written over here at Aberrant Monism (and I will likely do riffs … Continue reading →

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Deleuze and Analytic Philosophy

Posted on April 30, 2011

My good friend and Camus scholar/political theorist colleague Pete Petrakis has always said that despite my work in continental philosophy he long suspected I was a closet analytic philosopher. I have not vigorously denied these claims, which has no doubt … Continue reading →

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siding with history

Posted on April 28, 2011

For anyone who has followed the philosophy blogs at all for the past week, they already know about the Synthese controversy. For those who don’t know about it (and some of my Scottish friends may not), it was prompted by … Continue reading →

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conceptual automata

Posted on April 12, 2011

With midterms out of the way I’ve been able to begin preparing for some upcoming events. In particular, I’ll be one of the lecturers at this year’s Deleuze Camp, along with Ian Buchanan, Dan Smith, and Ron Bogue (there are … Continue reading →

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Dewey…the most important philosopher of the twentieth century

Posted on April 8, 2011

At the Leiter blog there was an interesting thread (here) concerning Philip Kitcher’s recent essay, “Philosophy Inside Out” (here). Given the current state of support for philosophy (or lack thereof) within the academy, it was not surprising that many of … Continue reading →

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Interview/Dialogue with John Protevi

Posted on April 6, 2011

Over at the New APPS blog Protevi has a nice weekly feature where he interviews a philosopher, asking them about their daily routines, how they got into philosophy, their views on the university today, etc. It is interesting to see … Continue reading →

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