#1 ‘On the “thought-event” through Deleuze’, Tue 2nd September, 6-8pm, Dan Graham Pavilion, Hayward Gallery, London.
Sam McAuliffe and Sandra Plummer were in conversation on the concept of the ‘thought-event’ through Deleuze.
McAuliffe addressed the logic specific to the incommensurability between the being of the possible and the actual that the event gives to be thought. Follow this link to access ‘Deleuze and the Index of the Possible’.
Plummer considered thought via Deleuze’s account of maps and trajectories in his Essays Critical and Clinical and his concept of the phantasm in Logic of Sense. The discussion explored what these ideas convey in relation to the event of thought in the exhibition ‘Walking in My Mind’ currently showing at Hayward Gallery. Follow this link to access ‘Reading Walking in My Mind through Deleuze’s phantasm’.
Contextual material for further reading:
Gilles Deleuze, ‘The Exhausted’, in Essays Critical and Clinical, London and New York: Verso, 1998.
Gilles Deleuze,’Thirtieth Series of the Phantasm’, in The Logic of Sense, London: Continuum, 2004.
Gilles Deleuze, ‘Foucault’, ed. and trans. Sean Hand, London: Athlone Press, 1988.
SPEAKERS BIOS:
Sam McAuliffe is currently a PhD candidate and Visiting Tutor at Goldsmiths College within the Visual Cultures department, with a background in modern European philosophy and literature. He is also a Research Board Group member of the university’s Centre for Research in Continental Philosophy. His doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Thinking in Thought: Image, Concept, and Their Relation in Benjamin and Adorno, Blanchot and Deleuze,’ is a study of the tendencies informing the recasting of “the image” within twentieth-century philosophy as the condition for the exercise of thinking itself in its various forms (from ontology, logic, and linguistics, to ethics and aesthetics). Outside of his doctoral research he is currently working on a number of related studies: ‘“A Point of View on Health”: Sickness and Perspective in Nietzsche’; “Breaking-Off: On the fiction of Peter Handke”; “Derrida, Literature, and the Absolute Referent”; and “The Melancholy of Form,” a study of the problem of aesthetic autonomy.
Sandra Plummer is an artist and writer who has recently completed her PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck. Her PhD thesis Photography after Deleuze: Ontology, Reflexivity and Materiality addressed the ontology of the photograph via Deleuze’s concepts of simulacrum, surface and the time-image. In 2007 her article on Vik Muniz was published inTextile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture. During 2008-9 she was a Visiting Lecturer in Photography at Middlesex University and a Guest Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her current research addresses contemporary self-referential photography and attempts to posit the photograph as an object.
