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Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,487 ratings — published 2010
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 72 ratings — published 2011
Creative Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,483 ratings — published 1907
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,091 ratings — published 1994
Philosophy of Biology (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.73 — 158 ratings — published 2013
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,007 ratings — published 2015
Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (Critical Life Studies)
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avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 76 ratings — published 2009
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
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avg rating 4.14 — 21 ratings — published 1996
Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published
The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 131 ratings — published 2014
Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published
Viroid Life (Routledge Studies in Development)
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avg rating 3.59 — 22 ratings — published 1997
Universal Biology after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel: The Philosopher's Guide to Life in the Universe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 32 ratings — published 1999
Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (ebook)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 7,067 ratings — published 1980
After Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 79 ratings — published 2010
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy; Volume II. The History of Eroticism and Volume III. Sovereignty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 380 ratings — published 1976
Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 29 ratings — published 2008
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)
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avg rating 3.98 — 611 ratings — published 1992
Space, Time and Perversion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 101 ratings — published 1995
Dark Deleuze (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.29 — 356 ratings — published 2016
Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Topics in Historical Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.77 — 47 ratings — published 2008
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 567 ratings — published 1993
Essays on Deleuze (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 54 ratings — published 2012
Deleuze: History and Science (Think Media Egs Media Philosophy Serie)
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avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published 2010
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,252 ratings — published 1949
Nomadology: The War Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 299 ratings — published 1986
Slime Dynamics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.37 — 141 ratings — published 2012
Bergsonism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 886 ratings — published 1966
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
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avg rating 4.12 — 68 ratings — published 2005
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 8,759 ratings — published 1972
Philosophies of Nature after Schelling (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published 2006
Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 127 ratings — published 1993
Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 308 ratings — published 1968
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 55 ratings — published 2003
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 342 ratings — published 2007
Difference and Repetition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 3,874 ratings — published 1968
Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 256 ratings — published 1999
Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media (ebook)
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avg rating 4.04 — 52 ratings — published 2013
Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of Thought (New Perspectives in Ontology)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
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avg rating 4.49 — 55 ratings — published 2014
By James Williams Gilles Deleuze's <i> Difference and Repetition</i>: Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Cr (2nd Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2002
Chance in Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment (Synthesis)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2014
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published
Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
“Recursion is the movement that tirelessly integrates contingency into its own functioning to realize its telos. In so doing it generates an impenetrable complexity in the course of time. Organisms exhibit a complexity of relations between parts and whole inside the body and with its environment (e.g. structural coupling) in its functioning. Life also exhibits such complexity, since it expects the unexpected, and in every encounter it attempts to turn the unexpected into an event that can contribute to its singularity.”
― Recursivity and Contingency
― Recursivity and Contingency
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind.
Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things?
Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.”
― The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things?
Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.”
― The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
