Étienne Balibar: Conjectures and conjunctures

Étienne Balibar and Peter Osborne ~ RP 097 (Sep/Oct 1999) ~ Interview

Interview Étienne BalibarConjectures and conjunctures PO: In Spinoza and Politics you set out to show that the relationship between philosophy and politics is such that ʻeach implies the otherʼ. Was this true of your own intellectual development?Balibar: I think so, yes. The two things were closely connected in the circle around Althusser at the École […]

The vertigo of philosophy: Deleuze and the problem of immanence

Christian Kerslake ~ RP 113 (May/Jun 2002) ~ Article

One of the few terminological constants in Deleuzeʼs philosophical work is the word ʻimmanenceʼ, and it has therefore become a foothold for those wishing to understand exactly what ʻDeleuzean philosophyʼ is. That this ancient and well-travelled notion is held to have been given new life and meaning by a Deleuzean approach is evidenced in much […]