BIO
Dr. Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University, Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies. She researches primarily Continental philosophy, aesthetics and social/political transformation, and feminist theory. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (2015) co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism: Alliances and Allies (2018) and co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben, to be released this Spring.
TITLE
“Reincorporating Deleuze's Incorporeal for a Posthuman Ethics”
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the way that Deleuzian philosophy and its transmutation through feminist new materialism has provided many of the theoretical underpinnings for post-humanist discussion. In particular, the paper takes up Grosz’s challenge to new materialism – that it needs a new idealism that accounts for the incorporeal elements of our experience – and asks how this challenge can be reconciled with Deleuze’s philosophy. New materialists have identified Deleuze as an inspiration or claimed his philosophy as foundational, yet there are elements of Deleuze’s philosophy that resist a purely materialist account. As a preview of my conclusions: I proposed the reincorporation of Deleuze’s incorporeal in order to conceive a new idealism – for a posthuman world – which maintains the de-centering of the human while also carving out a space for ethical engagements and meaning-making practices through a transformed understanding of human thought-action-embodiment. Deleuze and Guattari are concerned with how what we think and how we think has effects on our environment, how our thought is operative in the carving out of territories, the design and transformation of spaces and interactions – the way we engage with nature and others. The benefit in addressing Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, especially through this issue of incorporeality, is recognizing and developing a new image of thought for these tasks – recognizing this thinking as a task and responsibility for becoming more sensitive to the mattering of matter and our intertwinement with the world.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
Dr. Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University, Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies. She researches primarily Continental philosophy, aesthetics and social/political transformation, and feminist theory. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (2015) co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism: Alliances and Allies (2018) and co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben, to be released this Spring.
TITLE
“Reincorporating Deleuze's Incorporeal for a Posthuman Ethics”
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the way that Deleuzian philosophy and its transmutation through feminist new materialism has provided many of the theoretical underpinnings for post-humanist discussion. In particular, the paper takes up Grosz’s challenge to new materialism – that it needs a new idealism that accounts for the incorporeal elements of our experience – and asks how this challenge can be reconciled with Deleuze’s philosophy. New materialists have identified Deleuze as an inspiration or claimed his philosophy as foundational, yet there are elements of Deleuze’s philosophy that resist a purely materialist account. As a preview of my conclusions: I proposed the reincorporation of Deleuze’s incorporeal in order to conceive a new idealism – for a posthuman world – which maintains the de-centering of the human while also carving out a space for ethical engagements and meaning-making practices through a transformed understanding of human thought-action-embodiment. Deleuze and Guattari are concerned with how what we think and how we think has effects on our environment, how our thought is operative in the carving out of territories, the design and transformation of spaces and interactions – the way we engage with nature and others. The benefit in addressing Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, especially through this issue of incorporeality, is recognizing and developing a new image of thought for these tasks – recognizing this thinking as a task and responsibility for becoming more sensitive to the mattering of matter and our intertwinement with the world.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
