Deleuze meeting

Difference and Repetition

By zoom

19 February 2025

Our next meeting will take place on 19 February at 5pm, when we will start to read Chapter 4, Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference, up to the opening paragraph of page 245, ending with “incarnates” (2014 English pagination).

If you wish to participate, please get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk ).
A note for your diaries: the meeting that falls on Wednesday 28 May 2025 will take place in-person at Manchester University.

 Eighth Deleuze Meeting

Wednesday 5 February at 5pm by zoom

Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

We will read from the start of the final paragraph on p.196 to the end of Chapter 3, p. 217 ( 2014 English edition pagination)

If you want to join, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk 

(Meetings between October and January took place, but website announcements here were interrupted.)

 Third Deleuze meeting: 23 October 5pm by zoom

For our next meeting on 23 October, we are reading the rest of Chapter 1 (Difference in Itself), up to page 86 (notes to page 91). 

If you wish to join, please get in touch with alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk.

 Second meeting of reading Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

October 9, 2024 at 5pm by zoom

For our second meeting we will read up to the bottom of page 61 in Chapter 1 (French middle of page 69). 

Please get in touch with Alex Samely if you wish to take part (details below). 

 New Reading Academic Year 24–25

We meet by zoom fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5pm. Anybody who wants to join, get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk).

This year we will be reading Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (trans. Paul Patton, London: Bloomsbury, 2014).

The provisional schedule of meetings is: 

Wed 5pm, by zoom except 4 Dec: 

25 September

9 October

23 October

6 November

20 November

4 December - face to face 

18 December (to be confirmed)

At our first meeting on 25 September, we will discuss the author's two prefaces and the "Introduction" to the book (which ends on page 35 in the Bloomsbury 2014 English). 

 Next meeting: Deleuze on Cinema

19 June 5pm by zoom

Following on from Benjamin's musings on art and cinema which we discussed at our last meeting, we will meet for the last time this Semester for a discussion of Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1. The Movement-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), pp. 1–28. 

If you wish to join, please get in touch with Alex Samely (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk)

 Next meeting 5 June 5pm: 
 Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

We will read Benjamin's article 'The work of art" for our next meeting. Text sources: 

English translation: in Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken, 1968, pp. 217–251. 

German original: "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit" is in Walter Benjamin, Illuminationen. Ausgewählte Schriften, vol. 1 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977), pp. 136-169; also in: W. B., Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit..... Mit Ergänzungen aus der ersten und zweiten Fassung, ed. B. Lindner (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2018) 

If you wish to receive further information please let Alex know (alex.samely@manchester.ac.uk).