AUT: Deleuze's Biophilosophy

["Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx>]

The below link leads to friendly but quite devasting critique
(as far as I can judge) of the claimed biological foundations
for Deleuze vitalism/biophilosophy, written from a
complexity theory perspective.

The essay is quite long, but very much worthwhile and informa-
tive, and also casts some light on some of the more obscure
Deleluzian terms, such as Body without Organs and
plane of immanence. It is not at all a hostile critique (more like
a rescue effort from a friend),  but the author none the less
claims, among other things, that Deleuze's "ethology of
becoming  is -- from the biological standpoint -- nothing
short of impossible."

Harald

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Becoming as Creative Involution?:
     Contextualizing Deleuze and Guattari's
     Biophilosophy

     Mark Hansen
     Princeton University

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.900/11.1hansen.txt



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