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"Gilles Deleuze once claimed that ""modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs."" The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher's interest in (and appeal to) ""the exact sciences."" In exploring the problematic relationship between the philosophy of Deleuze and science, the original essays gathered here examine how science functions in respect to Deleuze's concepts of time and space, how science accounts for processes of qualitative change, how science actively participates in the production of subjectivity, and how Deleuze's thinking engages neuroscience."

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Author:   Peter Gaffney
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9780816665976

ISBN 10:   0816665974
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   28 May 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
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Table of Contents

Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Science in the Gap, Part I. The Virtual in Time and Space, 1. The Insistence of the Virtual in Science and the History of Philosophy, by Arnaud Villani, 2. Superposing Images: Deleuze and the Virtual after Bergson’s Critique of Science, by Peter Gaffney, 3. The Intense Space(s) of Gilles Deleuze, by Thomas Kelso, Part II. Science and Process, 4. Interstitial Life: Remarks on Causality and Purpose in Biology, by Steven Shaviro, 5. Digital Ontology and Example, by Aden Evens, 6. Virtual Architecture, by Manola Antonioli, Part III. Science and Subjectivity, 7. The Subject of Chaos, by Gregory Flaxman, 8. Elemental Complexity and Relational Vitality: The Relevance of Nomadic Thought for Contemporary Science by Rosi Braidotti, 9. Numbers and Fractals: Neuroaesthetics and the Scientific Subject by Patricia Pisters, Part IV. Science and the Brain, 10. The Image of Thought and the Sciences of the Brain after What Is Philosophy?, by Arkady Plotnitsky, 11. Deleuze, Guattari, and Neuroscience, by Andrew Murphie, 12. Mammalian Mathematicians, by lark Bailey, Afterword: The Metaphysics of Science: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda Manuel DeLanda and Peter Gaffney, Contributors, Index

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Peter Gaffney is visiting assistant professor at Haverford College and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he teaches film studies, philosophy, and literature.

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