Deleuze and Cosmology

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, PA. She is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Identity and Diversity at North-West University, South Africa. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh UP 2015), co-editor of Deleuze and Cosmology: Between Art, Philosophy and the Sciences (Edinburgh UP 2026), co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben (Bloomsbury UP 2020) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Edinburgh Press 2019). She is currently working on a project on love, death and the fragility of relations. 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.