Grant Maxwell

Philosopher | The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers (EUP) | Integration and Difference (Routledge) | Deleuze and Polytheism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

I’m happy to share that my new book, The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers, is out today. A paperback edition will follow.

https://t.co/rCmhyG798L

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@duanneribeiro It’s from Chaosmosis, his 1992 book.

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Guattari explicitly discussing AI in 1992.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@terrabeastia Yes, I’m in the early stages of a project on this subject, and I suspect that Guattari’s Chaosmosis will play a central role as his view aligns well with the one I’m developing.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@parella_anthony You’d better call Microsoft and Google to break the bad news. I’m sure they’ll take your call.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

“Anyone looking to contain AI must explain how a distributed, global, capitalist system of unbridled power can be persuaded to temper its acceleration.” Mustafa Suleyman

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@CustomAIMath I find Suleyman to be significantly more credible than some guy on Twitter.

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these came in the mail today—paperback edition of my translation of Axel Cherniavsky’s exceptional work on Deleuze is now available from Edinburgh Press!

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

“Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to ‘accelerate the process,’ as
Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.” Deleuze and Guattari

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@nomadic_anais It’s one of my favorite books about Deleuze. Definitely worth it.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

My article is in the new issue of Deleuze and Guattari Studies!

https://t.co/58w8kj4l0B

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

@shitTOGv2 @amalgamatomaton I did WIP then DR and NP, which was a good order because it allowed me to see the differences between the monographs and cowritten works.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

People who claim that Deleuze is merely incoherent or obscurantist aren’t giving the time and attention required to understand his work. He enacted the primary conceptual innovation of the 20th century after Hegel in the 19th. Of course his writing is difficult.

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@LargeWlarge63 Some people love making sweeping proclamations about philosophers they haven’t read more than a few pages of.

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@THamelryck I wouldn’t call Deleuze either a prophet or a romantic, but this gestures toward the subject of my forthcoming book, Deleuze and Polytheism.

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@DrMarcAnton Exactly.

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@amalgamatomaton I’d suggest starting with one of the books on individual authors if you’re especially into any of them (Nietzsche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Proust, etc.). If not, I started with What Is Philosophy?, which was a good point of entry.

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@patrickdaoun Chat, is that you?

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@khalilacp I disagree. He was certainly deeply interested in Nietzsche, though his politics aren’t particularly Nietzschean. Nietzsche’s politics were problematic while Deleuze was extremely progressive and pluralist, deriving his politics more from Spinoza and Marx.

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@Zelzele101 Paradoxically, it’s only possible to think this if one hasn’t read him.

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@sthhjh Oh. No.

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@sthhjh Yes, Hegel and Kant are no less obscure than Deleuze.