Faculty
Professor Ian Buchanan, Cardiff, Professor Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University, Professor Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, Associate Professor Dan W. Smith, Purdue University, Associate Professor Dag Petersson, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Associate Professor Henrik Oxvig, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Associate Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School, Assistant Professor Anders Raastrup Kristensen, Copenhagen Business School, Kent Hansen, Copenhagen Business School

Course Coordinator
Associate Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS

Students enrolled in a PhD program. The course is aimed at students with a social scientific background. Students are expected to participate actively in discussions. Students are expected to give a short presentation of their current work during one of the ‘open mike sessions’. Participation in the whole course is a prerequisite for receiving the course diploma.

The fifth Deleuze Camp intends to explore current conditions for creative critiques. In the searchlight are potentialities for responding to a seemingly permanent, yet persistently mutating crisis. The course intends to assemble ways of conceiving the current plurality of crises – financial, ecological, political, existential, aesthetic – letting their bindings show, analyzing their displacements and their disguises, exacerbating them, perhaps indeed taking us deeper into them. A micropolitics of global society is in need of articulation; this makes us desire philosophy as ever before.

The texts of Gilles Deleuze, once restricted to specialists, the French public, and tenants of radical politics, are now being put to work everywhere, and seem far from having lost their momentum. His readers – whether they be academic scholars, activists, architects, artists, designers, managers, workers or just marginalized – face a world that beckons comprehensive recompositions through inventive action.

The current situation calls for a renewed critique, but also for something more. It calls for a creativity in questioning the world, in the position and solution of its problems. The very scope of the difficulties calls for transdisciplinary awareness and attention to disparaties. The multiple lines connecting heterogeneous systems articulate as many virtual passages between (to name but the most apparent) the ecological, educational, financial and political crises which play together with the crises particular to the arts, to architecture, and to design. This is why Copenhagen Business School and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture have joined forces in searching for a recomposition of the reception and application of Deleuze’s work.

 

The course will introduce a number of different perspectives to analysing the way we think about organizations (beyond the level of metaphorical analogy or sociological description), in order to critically question and challenge the performative effects of our thoughts as well as enhancing our understanding of organizational life. The objective is to help students identify fruitful academic resources for their subsequent study of organization through creative critiques.

The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures, discussion seminars with short presentations, and group work. A large part of the course consists of dialogues in which students are expected to be very active. Students are further expected to take part in small group assignments during the course and these will be evaluated through short presentations. Students are further expected to give a short presentation of their project during the course.

Alliez, E. (2009) ‘Body without Image: Ernesto Neto's Anti-Leviathan" in Radical Philosophy: July/Aug, available at http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2188&editorial_id=28231 .

Deleuze, G. (2004 ) ‘Instincts and institutions’ and ‘On Nietzsche and the Image of Thought’, in Desert Islands. Semiotexte: pp. 19-21 and 135-142.

Deleuze, G. (1997) Essays Critical and Clinical. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: chapter 1, 8, 10 and 14.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1986) Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: Chapter 5.

Deleuze, G. (2003) Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation. New York: Continuum: Chap. 2, 6, 8, 12, 14.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1994) What is Philosophy?. New York: Columbina University Press: Chapter 1, 2, 4, and 7.

Deleuze, G. (1989) Cinema 2: the time-image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: chapters 4-6.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987) Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: Chapter 4, 6, 9 and 13.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1983) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: chapter 1.

 

Seminar 1 -- The Body without Organs: Chap1, Anti-Oedipus, and Chap 6, A Thousand Plateaus

Seminar 2 -- The Assemblage: Chap 4, A Thousand Plateaus

Seminar 3 -- The Abstract Machine: Chap 9, A Thousand Plateaus

Literature: Chapter 4, 6 and 9 in 'A Thousand Plateaus' and Chapter 1 ‘Anti-Oedipus’.

 

What is a concept - Jeffrey Bell

Seminar 1-3

Literature: Chapter 1 (what is a concept) in 'What is Philosophy?'

 

Time and Truth - Dan W. Smith

Seminar 1-3

Literature: On time: "The Time-Image," esp. chapters 4-6.

On truth: "What is Philosophy?", esp. chapters 1-2.

 

Literature and the People to Come - Ronald Bogue

Seminar 1-3

Literature: Cinema 2, Chapter 6, "The Powers of the False," especially section 3

Essays Critical and Clinical: (1) "Literature and Life," (8) "Whitman," (10) "Bartleby; or the Formula," (14) "The Shame and the Glory:  T. E. Lawrence"

Kafka, Chapter 5, "Immanence and Desire"

A Thousand Plateaus, Plateau 13, "Apparatus of Capture"

What is Philosophy? Chapter 4, "Geophilosophy," Chapter 7, "Percept, Affect and Concept"

 

Humans have no instincts, they builds institutions - Bent M. Sørensen and Anders Raastrup Kristensen

Literature: 'Instincts and institutions' and 'On Nietzsche and the Image of Thought' in Desert Islands.

 

Deleuze and the sensible - Henrik Oxvig and Dag Petersson

Literature: Gilles Deleuze: Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation, chapters 2, 6, 8, 12, 14.

Alliez, E. (2009) ‘Body without Image: Ernesto Neto's Anti-Leviathan’.

17.06.11 to jsi.lpf@cbs.dk