And Release Judgement — What judge of art could ever create art? What judge of life could ever create life? Life as Art Despite the limitations society might press on us, life is limitless, creative, and our deepest urge is to express ourselves in our own way and be heard. …

Gilles Deleuze and Creative Philosophy — Fulfillment What if life could be continuously fresh and new, light and free? What if even during our most difficult moments we had a light source within, a strength that could help us see beyond the darkness? …

The Divine Feminine — Pure Creativity Along the lines of 1960s thought, we can reference ideas like peace, love and understanding, provided we think of them in terms of a life lived in pure immanence. One possibility is to think of creativity itself as participation in the divine feminine, a recollection of the feminine power to…

Deterritorializing and Reterritorializing — Inner Reflection In the 1960s, inner reflection led to experimentation and vice versa. For a time, a virtuous circle was created in which new ideas, creations and actions aided a counterculture movement that was inherently Deleuzian; an expression of difference-in-itself and the eternal return. Creators and protestors of the 1960s carved new…

Opening the Psyche — In 60s counterculture, a rejection of standard narrative values went hand-in-hand with a spiritual quest, a life experiment, an exploration of new mind experiences, the discovery of spontaneous creativity, and the search for key points of departure from conformity. A new sense of freedom was required to venture down the…

The Sixties — Deleuzian Social Process The dramatic social and cultural events of the 1960s were at heart driven by a need for authentic self-expression, a rejection of authority and an embrace of experience: An escape to the edge, a line of flight away from eroding social striations. …

The Beats — Existential Bohemianism Modern counterculture comes to fruition with the Beats, who in turn, took their cue from the Bohemians and the Existentialists. After the war, Sartre and Camus transferred their activities in the French resistance to the context of a cultural movement, and the Beats joined in. Although steeped in socialist thinking…

Deleuze and Bohemian Counterculture — No Destination An understanding of modern counterculture, in the 20th century, the underground, the Bohemian, begins in the 19th century, with Henri Murger’s short stories, Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (1845), Georges Bizet’s Carmen (1876) and Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (1896). The life of the Bohemian exalted: artists, writers, musicians, actors…