2024-11-21T17:29:33-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/143314869/what-is-becoming-of-deleuze Orhan Ayyüce 2015-12-14T00:05:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kd/kdidaebi84409jp3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>If you are trapped in the dream of the other, you are fucked.</p></em><br /><br /><p>ON 4 NOVEMBER 1995, <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/deleuze/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gilles Deleuze</a> committed suicide by jumping from his Parisian apartment window. He left behind a philosophical legacy that went on to influence numerous academic disciplines: continental philosophy, cinema studies, literary theory, cultural criticism, social and political theory, LGBTQ studies, art and architecture theory, as well as the growing field of animal studies and environmental theory. In part this is because Deleuze himself enjoyed such a broad and eclectic range of influences. He innovatively combined the thinking of Bergson, Foucault, Kant, Hume, Lacan, Leibniz, Marx, Nietzsche, and Spinoza with insights on artists such as Bacon and Artaud, novelists like Kafka and Carroll, along with filmmakers such as Herzog, Hitchcock, and Eisenstein. And this is just a brief nod to some of his deepest influences. There are many more. All the intellectual excitement and flurry over Deleuze may confirm the prediction made by his good friend and fellow philosopher, M...</p>