Gilles Deleuze: the passage from noise to voice

Friday 9 September 2005
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
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The conference on Deleuze is an invitation to consider a certain ‘passage
from noise to voice’ in ‘The twenty-sixth series of language’ of  'The
logic of sense', with the intention of opening up Deleuzian philosophy to
various ways of deterritorialisations from different viewpoints, such as
from the viewpoints of Leibniz, Kant,  Hegel, Nietzsche, Lacan, Derrida,
and quantum theory.

The passage in question serves as a basis for questioning the strategies
invented by Deleuze for warding off the return of a moment of synthesis –
be it in his formulation of ‘sense’, ‘expression’, ‘event’ or
‘paradoxical element’. What can be gained from defining  ‘the birth of
language’, or ‘the birth of the subject’ by referring to such a passage,
realised purely, by ‘the event of all events’, which Deleuze describes as
‘Univocity’? In other words, if this event is what triggers the resonance
between the series, so that sound is differentiated from noise, then it
also raises the question whether a former passage has already taken place
even before this ‘event of all the events’ – on the basis of a re-
appropriation of what has been disappropriated since the beginning of
'The logic of sense'. 

This question will hopefully bring about further openings in other
Deleuzian passages, for instance, from pre-individual singularities to
singularities and individuation; from milieus and refrains to music; from
a radical discontinuity to continuity; from a-topology to topology; or
from the audible to the specular.

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Programme

10:00–10:30
Zafer Aracagök ——
Welcome and introduction
 
10:30–11.15
Arkady Plotnitsky ——
Chaosmologies: chaos and thought in Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari’s
What is philosophy?, with quantum field theory
 
11:15–12:00
Marc Rölli ——
Pragmatism and structuralism in the thought of Gilles Deleuze
 
12:00–13:00
Lunch
 
13:15–14:00
Rosi Braidotti ——
The politics of becoming, or: self-styling as resistance
 
14:00–14:45
Mahmut Mutman ——
Passing: the voice
 
14:45–15:15
Coffee break
 
15:15–16:00
Manola Antonioli ——
La ritournelle: des oiseaux et des hommes
 
16:00–16:45
Marc De Kesel ——
The sense of logic: Lacanian questions to Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Theory on
language’ in Logique du sense

More information on the programme and the speakers:
www.janvaneyck.nl/noisetovoice

Conference organised by Zafer Aracagök with Manola Antonioli, Rosi
Braidotti, Marc De Kesel, Mahmut Mutman, Arkady Plotnitsky, Marc
Rölli

Practical information

Admission free

Information/registration:
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Location:
Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
Maastricht
The Netherlands
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