Knowra Gilles Deleuze Gilles Deleuze Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher whose works developed a philosophy of difference, becoming, desire, and multiplicity, and reshaped continental thought through collaborations and studies of cinema.
Difference and Repetition : A 1968 book by Deleuze arguing that difference and repetition are fundamental, rather than secondary to identity and resemblance. This book gives the clearest sustained account of the difference that anchors Deleuze’s philosophy.
Rhizome : A nonhierarchical model of connection in which multiple points can link and break off without a single organizing center. Deleuze and Guattari use the rhizome to oppose tree-like models of knowledge and organization.
Félix Guattari : A French psychoanalyst and political activist who coauthored major works with Deleuze. Their collaboration produced Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, central works on desire and social organization.
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image : Deleuze’s 1983 book analyzing classical cinema through images organized by movement and sensory-motor action. It shows how Deleuze builds a philosophical account of cinema from film forms and examples.
Post-structuralism : A broad intellectual movement that questioned stable structures of meaning, identity, and knowledge. Deleuze is often grouped with post-structuralists, though his philosophy developed a distinctive account of difference.
Immanence : The view that reality and thought are understood from within a single plane, without appeal to a transcendent outside. Deleuze treats immanence as a basic condition for thinking difference without reducing it to fixed identities.
Assemblage : A provisional arrangement of heterogeneous elements whose relations produce capacities and effects. Assemblages explain how Deleuzean analysis connects bodies, institutions, materials, and signs.
Michel Foucault : A French historian and philosopher whose work examined power, knowledge, institutions, and subject formation. Foucault and Deleuze shared a critical engagement with institutions and each wrote influentially about the other.
Cinema 2: The Time-Image : Deleuze’s 1985 book examining modern cinema’s direct presentations of time and disrupted action. Its time-image extends Deleuze’s philosophical interest in time beyond ordinary movement and causality.
New Materialism : A family of approaches that emphasize matter’s activity and agency rather than treating it as passive substance. New materialist thinkers have drawn on Deleuze’s accounts of matter, bodies, and becoming.
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