CONVERSATIONS:
ON THE WORK OF
GILLES DELEUZE & FÉLIX
GUATTARI
1st conversation: Rhizome/On the Line
We, Michael Taormina (French)
and Rolando Pérez (Spanish) , professors in the Department of Romance
Languages at Hunter College--who profess absolutely nothing about anything, but
instead question just about everything--have been thinking for a long time of
holding a series of informal
conversations on the work of French philosophers, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992). Why? Because we like them, and we like them simply
because over the years we have connected with them in significant ways. But mostly
because they have offered us ways of becoming
in the world that are liberating and non-hierarchical. We begin with their
essay, Rhizome, or On the Line because we
have to begin somewhere, and for Deleuze anyway, an event always begins in the
middle. Moreover, according to Deleuze and Guattari the best philosophy has
always been done from the peripheries of philosophy: by writers, film
directors, painters, composers, psychologists, etc. So we invite and welcome
people from all fields to join our first conversation (of many) on the
philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari.
When: Friday, October
17, 2014
from 4:00-5:30 pm
Where: Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue,
NYC
Departmentof
Romance Languages, Room 1344, Hunter West
