Alas, the finance people at Middlesex vetoed the money for the trip and have frozen their budget for the year, so it looks like I won’t be presenting at the Deleuze and Rationalism conference. Nonetheless, it was nice to receive the offer and Hallward informs me that he would like to get me out there in the next year or so and also set up additional talks at Cardiff, Warwick, and Dundee. They’ve decided to retreat to Toscano in my stead. Toscano’s always getting all the good dates! [Shakes fist angrily] Damn you Toscano! Perhaps I should see if my college can muster some funds.
February 9, 2007
February 9, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Hi Levi,
damn that is a great great shame, because I was thinking of doing a masters course on modern philo course at Middlesex under Hallward/Brassier/Toscano. As a random confession to make, I’ve been harbouring an illicit wish to someday study/undergo psychoanalysis with you and that dream would have been actually feasible had you been here in England!!!
Yes, Toscano seems to get all the sweet deals, suckling the money from Goldsmith and hanging out with the Middlesex pips, nice gf, etc etc….. I will attending the said Deleuze/Rationalism conference thoug and will tape you the lectures if you want any particular one, (I haven’t forgotten the Whitehead lecture but my gf has, it seems…)
Anyways, this new blog does look classier :)
Best,
Justin
February 9, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Thanks Justin. Yeah, those Middlesex guys get to have all the fun. As for analysis, my practice is by phone as is the case with many Lacanians in the States, so that’s always a possibility.
February 9, 2007 at 3:50 pm
My condolences. Though it will be nice to worry about hearing Kaufman scoff at me through you, it would have been nice to meet you in the flesh.
February 9, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Funny, Hallward gave a paper here in Dundee this week. I took the opportunity to tell him how brilliant I think his Middlesex-based colleague, Christian Kerslake, is. Okay, perhaps that wasn’t very tactful, but Hallward doesn’t need me to tell him that he is great too.
But if you ever make it to Dundee, LS, give me a shout…
February 10, 2007 at 12:52 am
What’s the story with Kerslake? I’ve never read anything by him, any suggestions?
February 10, 2007 at 1:22 am
That’s really a shame, I was so hoping to have a ‘good’ reason to hop across the pond.
February 10, 2007 at 1:28 am
Thanks all. I suspect I’ll be visiting within the next year if all goes well. All and all I think this is for the best, as things are tremendously hectic right now.
February 10, 2007 at 6:28 am
Anthony – Kerslake has a bunch of articles on Deleuze, Kant and psychoanalysis published. (He’s also recently published a book, but I haven’t got my hands on it yet.) Personally, I think that in 20 years time, there will be such people as Kerslakians. In particular, I would recommend:
‘Rebirth Through Incest: Deleuze’s Early Jungianism’, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 9:1, 2004.
‘The Vertigo of Philosophy: Deleuze and the Problem of Immanence’, Radical Philosophy, 113, May-June 2002.
‘Transcendental Cinema: Deleuze, Time and Modernity’, Radical Philosophy, 130, March/April 2005.
February 10, 2007 at 10:30 am
Thanks for the citations.
February 10, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Sorry to hear about the Msex funding situation – though I’m not terribly surprised. I hope there’s no hard feelings towards Alberto – he tells me he was the one who suggested inviting you in the first place. Glad to hear he has a nice girlfriend tho!
February 10, 2007 at 6:41 pm
If only I could replace disappointment more often…
Hoping to organise some event in the autumn at Goldsmiths with Peter H et alia under the banner “Deleuze Defended Against His Devotees”, perhaps I can engage in some tactical “suckling” and get you across the Atlantic…
February 10, 2007 at 6:46 pm
No hard feelings towards Toscano at all, as I admire his work and that’s just the way things go with funding… The post was meant to embody a “John Stewart” voice. I’m surprised to find out he suggested me as I figured it would have been Dan Smith. Hopefully something works out in the future.
February 10, 2007 at 6:47 pm
That’d be great A.T.!
February 10, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Kerslake’s “Vertigo of Philosophy” may be read online here:
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze8.htm
February 11, 2007 at 2:19 am
Another Kerslake essay may be found here:
http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Insects-and-Incest-From-Bergson.html