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 End of Time as Duration — The Axiom of Capital and Technology Capital and technology are aligned by a common premise based on human progress and man over nature. The axiom of capital that abstracts and revalues everything, works through technology which in turn enhances its ability to further the ideology of human progress and man over nature. Capital and technology work…

The Control Society: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World — We can shed further light on Deleuze’s control society by referencing two famous books from the 20th century: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell’s dystopian political novel presents a totalitarian state dominated by omnipresent surveillance, propaganda, censorship, psychological manipulation and physical control.

Techno-Capital and the Control Society — The Axiom of Capital The axiom of capital does not facilitate enclosure and discipline, but instead operates via ubiquitous control, and inescapable distraction, creating an order that infiltrates chaos and creativity and snuffs it out; and in so doing delivers a society preoccupied with pain and pleasure, meted out in monetary terms. Capital knows…

Deleuze, Capital and the Control Society — Flows in Society Deleuze asserts that society, and indeed the historical process of society, is a matter of flows. All states structure flows in a process of territorialization. The state codes or restricts flows, creating paths along which certain flows may relate and connect, while at the same time preventing other relations and…

A Deleuzian Ethic in the Context of a Society of Control — Liberal democracy is a form of government that can work in a manner consistent with a Deleuzian philosophy of difference. But it is not a transcendent or perfectionist vision of society. Liberal democracy is offered up in these writings as a means of facilitating conditions in which citizens might freely…

Immanent Liberalism — Liberal State as not Transcendent The liberal state, equipped with practically chosen principles that uphold a thin theory of justice, maximizes our collective ability to lead a fulfilling life. Practical thought and social deliberation on such principles of justice are consistent with Deleuze’s ethic of the affirmation of difference in life. The liberal political state…

Placing Minimal Limits on Fulfillment — Liberal Theory Liberal theory, as per Rawls, is a theory of politics that places a minimum standard on how our social and political institutions should be ordered, given the pluralistic nature of society. Rawls’ vision is one that attempts to maximize a collective freedom that allows for each citizen to pursue her…