reminder: Explain Deleuze to me now! A two-day introductory workshop
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Aragorn Eloff
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Dear all,
A reminder about this workshop taking place at UP next month. I'm also happy to announce that Chantelle Gray has agreed to co-facilitate. Please let me know in the next week or two if you'd like to join and do note that the workshop is in-person only.
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. However, this singularly rich philosophy – 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 discouraging.
In this two-day workshop, Aragorn Eloff and Chantelle Gray 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 on Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz and Proust 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 (Seminar Room in the Old College House Building)
Registration: email ara...@further.co.za to register or for more information.
About the workshop hosts: Aragorn Eloff is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy 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. Chantelle Gray is a professor of philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and a well-known expert on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as the author of Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures.
A reminder about this workshop taking place at UP next month. I'm also happy to announce that Chantelle Gray has agreed to co-facilitate. Please let me know in the next week or two if you'd like to join and do note that the workshop is in-person only.
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. However, this singularly rich philosophy – 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 discouraging.
In this two-day workshop, Aragorn Eloff and Chantelle Gray 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 on Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz and Proust 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 (Seminar Room in the Old College House Building)
Registration: email ara...@further.co.za to register or for more information.
About the workshop hosts: Aragorn Eloff is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy 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. Chantelle Gray is a professor of philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and a well-known expert on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as the author of Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures.
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