Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She coedited Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy (1992).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Women, Representation, and PowerDifference Itself The Logic of Difference Difference and Organic Representation 2. Can a Feminist Read Deleuze and Guattari?Cosmic Empiricism Negative Desire Nomadism A Thousand Tiny Sexes 3. Against Phenomenology Feminist Narrative The Origin of the Work of Art Reconsidering Space and Time Interval4. Bergson, Matter, and Memory Order-Words, Common Language Interpretation and Force The Earth Screams; Life ltself Duration and Memory Memory and the Second Synthesis of Time Association of Ideas and the Unconscious 5. Creative Evolution: An Ontology of Change Tendencies, Not Oppositions Duration and Space The Dominance of Action Spiritual Life 6. Beyond the Pleasure Principle Biopsychic: Life The Purloined Letter The End of Eros 7. The Ruin of Representation The Dead Body 'The Theater of Terror A Science of the Singular 8. The Linguistic Signifier and the Ontology of Change Signification or Sense? Does the Linguistic Signifier Rule? Conclusion: Making Language Stutter Notes Bibliography