Deleuze and Cosmology

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg Philosophy Department. Sholtz received the Senior Neag Scholar award and the Junior Neag Scholar award from Alvernia University. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh University Press), co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, and French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben. She is an internationally recognized feminist and Deleuzian scholar, publishing on social justice and gender; aesthetics, affect, and desire; and Deleuze and the cosmic, currently writing on Deleuze, new materialism and a new image of thought. Alain Beaulieu is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University, Canada. He has a Doctorat de 3e cycle in philosophy from the Université de Paris 8 with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze et la phénoménologie (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2nd ed. 2006). He published Cuerpo y acontecimiento. La estética de Gilles Deleuze (Letra Viva, 2012), Gilles Deleuze et ses contemporains (Harmattan, 2011) and (co)edited the following works: Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics (Lexington, 2014), Abécédaire de Martin Heidegger (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2008), Michel Foucault and Power Today (Lexington, 2006), Gilles Deleuze. Héritage philosophique (PUF, 2005), as well as Michel Foucault et le contrôle social (PU Laval, 2nd ed. 2008).

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsIntroduction: Toward a New Cosmic SensitivityJanae Sholtz and Alain BeaulieuPart I. Creative Cosmology: Chaos and the Cosmic1. What is Invention? Deleuze and Guattari and the NewDorothea Olkowski2. Deleuze, an Unwitting Milesian?Arnaud Villani3. Cosmic Triptych: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Exploration of the Transistantial, the Fleeting and the AkoúômorphicalAntoine Renzo4. A Plastic Vortex of Spinning WasteMacarena RiosecoPart II. Infinite Cosmologies: Perspectives, Foldings & Time5. Points of View: Deleuze, Leibniz and the New CosmologyDebjyoti Sarkar6. The Lily of the Field Sings the Glory of the Heavens: The Cosmos of the FoldBrian Noonan7. Deleuze’s The Fold and String TheoryEwa Szumilewicz8. Aion/Chronos and Living Time?Russell DuvernoyPart III. Cosmologies of the Quantum 9. Deleuze and Decoherence: Approaching the Measurement Problem through IntensityMichael J. Ardoline10. The Chaosmic of the Quantum, with Gilles DeleuzeArkady Plotnitsky11. Immanence, Process and Relationalism in Loop Quantum GravityMartin Calamari12. Zig-Zagging Through the Deleuzian Virtual: The Dark Universe of Diagrams, Cosmology, and Quantumjan jagodzinskiPart IV. Comparative Cosmologies13. Caught Between a Sufficient Cosmos and a Chaosmos: Laruelle, Deleuze and Guattari on Philosophy, Cosmology and the RealChantelle Gray14. Biological Philosophy and Geophilosophy in the Shadow of Cosmology: Reading Canguilhem with Deleuze and GuattariSamuel Talcott15. Modality as virtuality versus modality as possibility: Gilles Deleuze and David LewisIlona Schweitzer16. Deleuze, Whitehead and Process CosmologyKeith RobinsonNotes on contributorsIndex

This is an exciting collection of essays. The editors have brought together a number of leading scholars to take on themes of vital interest, and they have each provided high quality work. Going forward, this book will provide an important resource for a number of current debates.