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Research Interests

I'm currently working at the intersection of dynamical systems theory, the biological and cognitive sciences, and Deleuze. I have a book forthcoming with Minnesota on this, entitled Political Physiology: Imbrications of the Social and the Somatic.

Current working papers

latest revision: 2 July 2008

As these are drafts, please do not cite for publication w/o permission. Please do write me with any comments. All files are (.pdf) and open in a new window, except for the link to the Stanford article on Deleuze.

Philosophy of Consciousness and the Body. Forthcoming in Beth Lord and John Mullarkey, eds. Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. 2 July 2008.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Gilles Deleuze. Co-authored with Dan Smith (Philosophy, Purdue). 23 May 2008.

Affect, Agency and Responsibility: The Act of Killing in the Age of Cyborgs. 27 Oct 2007 Forthcoming in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7.2 (2008).

Beyond Autopoiesis: Inflections of Emergence and Politics in Francisco Varela's Work. Draft 31 July 2007

Water Paper presented at the Deleuze Conference at University of South Carolina, April 2007

Biopolitics and Biopower: Agamben and Foucault. Draft 7 March 2006.

Katrina. Draft 1 November 2005 (pdf)

The Schiavo Case: Deleuzean Jurisprudence, Biopower, and Privacy as Singularity. Draft 9 July 2005

Deleuze, Guattari and Emergence. Draft 19 February 2005

Derrida's Love of Philosophy. Roundtable on Derrida's Legacy: Tulane University, 19 Nov 2004

Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology (3 October 2004) / version française

Political Physiology in High School: Columbine and After (new version 15 Aug 2004)

Some Remarks on Empire. Draft, 24 Sept 2003

What's New, What's Left, What's the New Left on Campus after September 11th? Talk, 7 Feb 2002

Love in Between Derrida and Deleuze, ed. Paul Patton and John Protevi (London: Continuum Press, 2002)

Introduction  to Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic (London: Athlone Press, 2001)

The Organism as Judgment of God: Aristotle, Kant, Deleuze on Nature in Deleuze and Religion, ed. Mary Bryden (London: Routledge, 2001).

The Geophilosophies of Deleuze and Guattari Paper presented at SEDAAG (Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers), November 2001

Links

Deleuze and Guattari

Deleuze and Guattari Resources

Manuel DeLanda

Lectures on the Philosophy of Matter

An Interview with DeLanda

More interviews and essays

Brian Massumi

Brian Massumi on the Web