Against 'vital materialism
The Passive Creation of Life in Deleuze
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Barker (0000-0002-6496-2167, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 49-62 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2015.0052 |
| OpenAlex | W2212396702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Gilles Deleuze's concept of life is valorized in the humanities today for its ability to grant agency or activity to non-human entities. This essay argues that, in fact, Deleuze sees the concept of life as a kind of passive creation which escapes the traces of subjectivity remaining in agency
Aesthetics · Business · Epistemology · Materialism · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |