Explain Deleuze to me now! A two-day workshop on 26-7 Feb at UP

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Hi all,

This workshop happening early next year may be of interest to some of you.

Warm regards,
Aragorn

Explain Deleuze to me now! A two-day introductory workshop on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

The work of Gilles Deleuze has become increasingly influential in fields ranging from cosmology to communism, mathematics to film studies, life sciences to critical algorithm studies, pedagogy to psychedelics and beyond. This singularly rich philosophy, however, which seeks to understand not just being but what gives rise to being, and which situates ongoing processes of differentiation at the heart of the unfolding of life, is dauntingly complex and Deleuze’s idiosyncratic writing style offers few easy footholds for first-time readers. Navigating the rapidly expanding corpus of secondary literature can be just as daunting.

In this two-day workshop, Aragorn Eloff will present an accessible introduction to the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari. The workshop will cover the full scope of Deleuze’s sole-authored works, from his groundbreaking studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza and Leibniz to Difference and Repetition (frequently regarded as the key text in his oeuvre), Logic of Sense (arguably his most ‘analytic’ text) and the later books on art and cinema, as well as the famous texts co-authored with Guattari: Anti-Oedipus, Kafka, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a gentle but rigorous introduction to Deleuze’s thought and to assist scholars who are seeking to apply this thought within their own work. The workshop will not assume any specialist training in philosophy and all interested parties are welcome regardless of academic background. Early registration is recommended as there will be limited spaces.

Dates: 26-27 February 2026

Venue: University of Pretoria (exact venue to be confirmed)

Registration: email ara...@further.co.za to register or for more information.

About the workshop host: Aragorn Eloff is a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy department at the University of Pretoria. A specialist on Deleuze, Guattari and Simondon, his current project focuses on extending their work to develop a philosophy of the psychedelic experience and an ethics of psychedelic care.