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- The Force of the Virtual: Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that “modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs.” The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher’s interest in (and appeal to) “the exact sciences.” In exploring the problematic relationship between the philosophy of Deleuze and science, the original essays gathered here examine how science functions in respect to Deleuze’s concepts of time and space, how science accounts for processes of qualitative change, how science actively participates in the production of subjectivity, and how Deleuze’s thinking engages neuroscience.
All of the essays work through Deleuze’s understanding of the virtual—a force of qualitative change that is ontologically primary to the exact, measurable relations that can be found in and among the objects of science. By adopting such a methodology, this collection generates significant new insights, especially regarding the notion of scientific laws, and compels the rethinking of such ideas as reproducibility, the unity of science, and the scientific observer.
Contributors: Manola Antonioli, Collège International de Philosophie (Paris); Clark Bailey; Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht U; Manuel DeLanda, U of Pennsylvania; Aden Evens, Dartmouth U; Gregory Flaxman, U of North Carolina; Thomas Kelso; Andrew Murphie, U of New South Wales; Patricia Pisters, U of Amsterdam; Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue U; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Arnaud Villani, Première Supérieure au Lycée Masséna de Nice.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction. Science in the Gap
- pp. 1-66
- I. The Virtual in Time and Space
- 3. The Intense Space(s) of Gilles Deleuze
- pp. 119-130
- II. Science and Process
- 5. Digital Ontology and Example
- pp. 147-168
- 6. Virtual Architecture
- pp. 169-188
- III. Science and Subjectivity
- 7. The Subject of Chaos
- pp. 191-210
- IV. Science and the Brain
- 11. Deleuze, Guattari, and Neuroscience
- pp. 277-300
- 12. Mammalian Mathematicians
- pp. 301-324
- Contributors
- pp. 379-382
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816673568
Related ISBN(s)
9780816665983
MARC Record
OCLC
705538366
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No