Between ontology and representation

Locating Gilles Deleuze’s ‘difference-in-itself ’ in and for geographical thought

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ID8092081
AuthorsDaniel Cockayne (0000-0001-7482-8896, corresponding author), Daniel G Cockayne, Derek Ruez (0000-0002-0591-371X), Anna Secor (0000-0003-1506-4552, University of Kentucky)
Year2016
Volume41
Issue5
Pages580-599
Publication date2016-06-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132516650028
OpenAlexW2411631772
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited100

The concept of difference has long been integral to geographical thought. However, it is rare for geographers to consider precisely what difference is, or how it functions, and there are several contrasting traditions through which difference is understood. We argue that geographers could helpfully extend their theorizations of difference through Deleuze’s philosophy of ‘difference-in-itself’. We examine the value of a ‘difference-in-itself’ that views difference as generative, originary, and primary, in productive tension with conceptions of difference that tend to, purposefully or otherwise, subordinate difference to presupposed identity-based, representational categories, or dialectical forms of contradiction and opposition

Aesthetics · Contradiction · Dialectic · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Identity (music · Linguistics · Ontology · Opposition (politics · Political science · Representation (politics · Significant difference · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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