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? …

A Deleuzian Life as a Work of Art — Radical Freedom Radical existential freedom is consistent with Deleuze’s immanent ethics: to be all you can be in a world with no objective meaning or values tied down in transcendence or truth. A life of becoming is a life of radical freedom to choose projects that express my mode of existence, that…

Authenticity as Affirmation of Becoming — Existence not Essence To search for the essence of life is to attempt to transcend life, to find the “what is” of life. This, for both Deleuze and the existentialists, is a fiction. Existence is all that there is. There is no need to go beyond reality. We create our reality, and our…

Meaning in Life as Creativity — Transcendent Subject Deleuze was heavily influenced by Sartre’s thought, but fundamentally disagreed with his Kantian notion of the subject. Sartre retained the transcendent subject in his philosophy and derives his notion of radical freedom via a subject that exists “for itself.” The world seems strange to us when we are not geared…

Review of Concepts Relevant to Deleuze — Heidegger In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger focused on the question of being in terms of how we confront our own existence and the manner in which the world appears to us. Dasein, being there, is the term Heidegger used to describe our condition as already being in the world. We…

Review of Concepts Relevant to Deleuze — Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard laid the foundations of what later became known as “existentialism.” Kierkegaard’s thought was in large part a reaction to Hegel’s philosophy based on the abstract unified concept. Kierkegaard asserted that abstractions do not exist, that we invent them in order to make connections in the world. For Kierkegaard…

Introducing Fulfillment in Becoming — Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away — an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and…

Life on the Periphery of Global Techno-Capital — Duration and Intuition Capital and technology are rhizomatic, but when raised to the transcendent in the name of human progress, they become life denying, not life affirming. But the striations that would make capital and technology transcendent can be deterritorialized if we are able to break through the spell of the scientific determinism…