First Meeting

Hey all, Ben and I met with Christoph this morning, he's going to be posting resources for us on the blog. Basically, what we ended up deciding is that A Thousand Plateaus will be our main text so we should all go ahead and buy that if you don't have it already.

If everyone could please read the first chapter on the rhizome for our meeting on Friday that would be great. Also if you have trouble getting the book before Friday I can make copies, just let me know.

Christoph will also be emailing us some texts from Bergson and others, when we meet on Friday in addition to discussing the intro to A Thousand Plateaus we should also hammer out a final syllabus. Christoph will be posting some material from his course on Difference and Repetition that should be helpful in getting the exact concepts for each meeting laid out. After speaking with him, it seemed best to look at just four other philosophers: Leibniz, Neitszche, Bergson and Spinoza. Christoph's going to guide us with what to read for these guys by posting on the blog.

For literature we'll be looking at Woolf, Kafka and Artaud. I think we've got Artaud figured out but if everyone could think about Kafka and Woolf it would be good to read before Friday then we can get this all squared away and get started.

Also if you are concerned about leaving people out we will all have an opportunity to explore a secondary source of our choice in the final paper. So for example, if you were dying to read Bacon but we didn't cover him as a group you can choose to write about his work and Deleuze's ideas. This way, particularly if we get our papers started early as we talked about, we can have our areas of interest to share with one another and in that way, expand the syllabus.


See you all Friday at 4! If you can, post on the first chapter before Thursday at midnight.