Russell J Duvernoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell J Duvernoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell J |
| FAMILY NAME | Duvernoy |
| SIGNATURE | DUVERNOY R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's University College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5512-1238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecological Conversion and the Pluriversal Challenge
This article examines challenges in conceiving dynamics of conversion in an ecological way. Of key concern are ambiguities between traditional conceptions of conversion and pluralistic ecological perspectivism. These ambiguities are intensified when we juxtapose conversion’s affective phenomenology with the planetary context of ecological polycrisis. To better understand these ambiguities, the article examines how images of holism have been lever…
Introduction
Icon, Index, Symbol? Theorizing Eco-Aesthetic Encounters across Epistemes
This paper considers the role of aesthetic experience in cultivating existential conditions of paradigmatic ecological change. It takes its impetus from Andrea Brighenti’s claim that ecologically transformative aesthetic experiences cannot be thought through symbols because they presuppose a normative background that must change. The paper argues against this dismissal of the symbol by drawing on Susanne Langer’s conception of artwork as a “non-d…
Relational time and creolizing eschatology
Using Édouard Glissant's concept of creolization as a lens, this article explores how different senses of time respond to the volatile affective dynamics of polycrisis. It begins by specifying two interrelated problems: first, what it calls the affective double bind that intensifies desire for normalcy and familiarity when what is needed is creative and transformative thought and action; second, what it calls the pluriversal challenge of realizin…
The “Beautiful Soul” and “Religious Consciousness”
A well-known term in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, the “beautiful soul” (die schöne Seele) has resurfaced in recent years. Deleuze refers to the beautiful soul’s “religiosity” and argues that aggressive “selection” is necessary as its antidote. However, in volatile contexts of social destabilization, such selection risks recoiling into reactionary violence. After first developing in more detail the beautiful soul’s background as a…
How Not to Talk About Environmental Personhood
Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead
The book develops a process metaphysical conception of subjectivity from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. This alters existential orientations towards affect and attention in ways described as ecological attunement. The study is guided by two methodological commitments: (i) demonstrating the importance and relevance of responsible speculative thinking and (ii) translating metaphysical ideas into their existential implication…
Poetry as Spiritual Exercise
“La Poésie Comme Exercice Spirituel” first appeared in a 1942 issue of Revue Fontaine edited by Jacques and Raissa Maritain and was subsequently republished in Wah’s 1948 text Poésie, Pensée, Perception, published by Calmann-Lévy. The following is a translation of the Fontaine version. I have noted all of the variations from the latter version in the notes. As I emphasize in my commentary, the piece is a notable display of Wahl’s eclectic range o…
Commentary on Jean Wahl
This commentary considers Wahl’s 1942 “Poetry as Spiritual Exercise” in the context of his interests in radical empiricism and process metaphysics. In doing so, it raises appreciation for the complexity of his thought, identifies specific notes of influence on Gilles Deleuze, and responds to worries that Wahl’s notion of spiritual exercise is predominantly a form of withdrawal, quietism, or retreat from the horrors of World War Two. For Wahl, rat…
Climate Change and the Everyday
Concepts of the everyday typically correlate with the normal and regular, while narratives of climate change are structured by predictions that exceed the normal. Since extreme events of climate change are not assimilable into the everyday, their destabilizing effects heighten destructive feedback loops mediated through fear. Developing psychic and social resilience necessary for re-routing climate change predictions from their direst outcomes th…
Climate X or Climate Jacobin
In Climate Leviathan, Mann and Wainwright address the political implications of climate change by theorizing four possible planetary futures: Climate Leviathan as capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Mao as non-capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Behemoth as capitalist non-planetary sovereignty, and Climate X as non-capitalist non-planetary sovereignty. The authors of the present article agree that the depth and scale of destabilizatio…
Concepts’ and Continuity
In this paper, I focus on an internal tension within James’s Principles and suggest that its formal structure provides useful insight into James’s subsequent evolution. Specifically, through a close reading of James’s account of ‘conceptions’ in the Principles, I examine the tension between these ‘conceptions’ construed as discrete and self-identical and James’s famous phenomenological description of consciousness as a continuous stream. Such a t…
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
How Not to Talk About Environmental Personhood
Climate X or Climate Jacobin
In Climate Leviathan, Mann and Wainwright address the political implications of climate change by theorizing four possible planetary futures: Climate Leviathan as capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Mao as non-capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Behemoth as capitalist non-planetary sovereignty, and Climate X as non-capitalist non-planetary sovereignty. The authors of the present article agree that the depth and scale of destabilizatio…
Concepts’ and Continuity
In this paper, I focus on an internal tension within James’s Principles and suggest that its formal structure provides useful insight into James’s subsequent evolution. Specifically, through a close reading of James’s account of ‘conceptions’ in the Principles, I examine the tension between these ‘conceptions’ construed as discrete and self-identical and James’s famous phenomenological description of consciousness as a continuous stream. Such a t…
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
Concepts’ and Continuity
In this paper, I focus on an internal tension within James’s Principles and suggest that its formal structure provides useful insight into James’s subsequent evolution. Specifically, through a close reading of James’s account of ‘conceptions’ in the Principles, I examine the tension between these ‘conceptions’ construed as discrete and self-identical and James’s famous phenomenological description of consciousness as a continuous stream. Such a t…
Climate X or Climate Jacobin
In Climate Leviathan, Mann and Wainwright address the political implications of climate change by theorizing four possible planetary futures: Climate Leviathan as capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Mao as non-capitalist planetary sovereignty, Climate Behemoth as capitalist non-planetary sovereignty, and Climate X as non-capitalist non-planetary sovereignty. The authors of the present article agree that the depth and scale of destabilizatio…
Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead
The book develops a process metaphysical conception of subjectivity from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. This alters existential orientations towards affect and attention in ways described as ecological attunement. The study is guided by two methodological commitments: (i) demonstrating the importance and relevance of responsible speculative thinking and (ii) translating metaphysical ideas into their existential implication…
Poetry as Spiritual Exercise
“La Poésie Comme Exercice Spirituel” first appeared in a 1942 issue of Revue Fontaine edited by Jacques and Raissa Maritain and was subsequently republished in Wah’s 1948 text Poésie, Pensée, Perception, published by Calmann-Lévy. The following is a translation of the Fontaine version. I have noted all of the variations from the latter version in the notes. As I emphasize in my commentary, the piece is a notable display of Wahl’s eclectic range o…
Commentary on Jean Wahl
This commentary considers Wahl’s 1942 “Poetry as Spiritual Exercise” in the context of his interests in radical empiricism and process metaphysics. In doing so, it raises appreciation for the complexity of his thought, identifies specific notes of influence on Gilles Deleuze, and responds to worries that Wahl’s notion of spiritual exercise is predominantly a form of withdrawal, quietism, or retreat from the horrors of World War Two. For Wahl, rat…
Climate Change and the Everyday
Concepts of the everyday typically correlate with the normal and regular, while narratives of climate change are structured by predictions that exceed the normal. Since extreme events of climate change are not assimilable into the everyday, their destabilizing effects heighten destructive feedback loops mediated through fear. Developing psychic and social resilience necessary for re-routing climate change predictions from their direst outcomes th…
The “Beautiful Soul” and “Religious Consciousness”
A well-known term in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, the “beautiful soul” (die schöne Seele) has resurfaced in recent years. Deleuze refers to the beautiful soul’s “religiosity” and argues that aggressive “selection” is necessary as its antidote. However, in volatile contexts of social destabilization, such selection risks recoiling into reactionary violence. After first developing in more detail the beautiful soul’s background as a…
How Not to Talk About Environmental Personhood
Icon, Index, Symbol? Theorizing Eco-Aesthetic Encounters across Epistemes
This paper considers the role of aesthetic experience in cultivating existential conditions of paradigmatic ecological change. It takes its impetus from Andrea Brighenti’s claim that ecologically transformative aesthetic experiences cannot be thought through symbols because they presuppose a normative background that must change. The paper argues against this dismissal of the symbol by drawing on Susanne Langer’s conception of artwork as a “non-d…
Relational time and creolizing eschatology
Using Édouard Glissant's concept of creolization as a lens, this article explores how different senses of time respond to the volatile affective dynamics of polycrisis. It begins by specifying two interrelated problems: first, what it calls the affective double bind that intensifies desire for normalcy and familiarity when what is needed is creative and transformative thought and action; second, what it calls the pluriversal challenge of realizin…
Ecological Conversion and the Pluriversal Challenge
This article examines challenges in conceiving dynamics of conversion in an ecological way. Of key concern are ambiguities between traditional conceptions of conversion and pluralistic ecological perspectivism. These ambiguities are intensified when we juxtapose conversion’s affective phenomenology with the planetary context of ecological polycrisis. To better understand these ambiguities, the article examines how images of holism have been lever…
Introduction
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (3 works) · Empiricism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works)