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For anyone who’s interested, here is the English version of my article “For an Ethics of the Fold” (ethical bodies) to be published in the French journal Multitudes. It’s mercifully short. This marks a shift in my ontological thinking that is far richer. I hope to develop it into a more robust ontology, epistemology, ethics, politics, aesthetics, and perhaps even a theology (the last of which is strange for an atheist). People keep asking me about Deleuze, Leibniz, and Merleau-Ponty in context of the concept of the fold I’m trying to develop. I’m studiously avoiding all of this at the moment. If it converges, great. If it diverges, all the better. For the moment, however, I need to avoid getting bogged down in scholarly engagements. At any rate, be gentle!
Larval Subjects . 
November 1, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Very much love the fact you’re purposely avoiding scholarly engagement. Regardless of what is said in the text too few give an account that is liberated from citation and obsessive tracing of intellectual lineages. Just wanted to let that stand on its own outside any comment on the text itself.
November 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Reblogged this on synthetic zero.
November 1, 2016 at 11:13 pm
Really stimulating paper. Thanks.
It helps me get my head round Foucault’s milieu/environmentalite and Deleuze/Guattari’s milieux (external and internal) which I’m trying to develop in work on poisoning of selected so-called pest non-human animals in Australia. The species are selected without consideration of the pleats and folds with which they entangle and so cause a cascade of ecosystemic problems.
Jean
November 4, 2016 at 4:20 pm
i like machines better than bodies…
November 4, 2016 at 4:35 pm
“Language introduces possibility into what is, hollowing out the density of its being, thereby functioning as a lure for the becoming of the being that folds its time in terms of the fragile future that the word institutes.” Alfred North Whitehead would be proud of you.
November 30, 2016 at 1:42 am
Very excited by this work, Levi – I don’t know when I’ll get to it, but it’s in the pile. ;)
All the best!
December 13, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Hey Levi,
This is a great start, and the most exciting attempt at a new direction in outcome-focussed ethics in a while! However, I suggest that you drop general references to ‘the object oriented philosopher’ and reference Harman et al directly. The current text feels evasive where it doesn’t need to be. Oh, and you can’t hide from Deleuze much longer! >:)
Best wishes!
Chris.
[Cross-posted from Twitter.]
March 8, 2017 at 12:56 am
Hi Levi,
I flagged you in this piece, part of my current Cybervirtue Campaign.
http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2017/03/faith-in-what.html
I’m working in a very different space from you, but I thought I ought to let you know that I was making use of your work.
All the best!
Chris.
March 26, 2017 at 5:38 am
Hey Levi,
Do you have a reference for the journal paper yet? I’m referencing this in my latest book. I’m happy to use the blog reference for the time being, but if the journal paper is out I feel I ought to use that.
Cheers!
Chris.
March 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm
You can find it here: https://www.cairn.info/revue-multitudes-2016-4.htm. Thanks for the reference!