Actual Virtual Journal's video: Craig Lundy - Deleuze and Guattari s Historiophilosohy

A/V .02 2012 Summer http://www.actualvirtualjournal.com/2014/11/av14.html This paper will examine the relation between philosophical thought and the various milieus in which such thought takes place using the late work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It will argue that their assessment of this relation involves a rearticulation of philosophy as an historiophilosophy. To claim that Deleuze and Guattari promote such a form of philosophy is contentious, as their work is often noted for implementing an ontological distinction between becoming and history, whereby the former is associated with the act of creation and the latter with retrospective representations of this creative process. Furthermore, when elaborating on the creative nature of philosophical thought, Deleuze and Guattari explicitly refer to philosophy as a ‘geophilosophy’ that is in contrast to history. Nevertheless, this paper will demonstrate that far from abandoning the category of history, Deleuze and Guattari’s analysis of the relations between philosophical thought and relative milieus suggests to us an historical ontology and methodology that is a critical part of philosophy’s nature. Dr Craig Lundy is an Associate Research Fellow and lecturer in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter. His PhD thesis explored the work of Gilles Deleuze and his conceptual forebears in order to address questions concerning the relation between history and the creation of the new. The major achievement of this dissertation was to demonstrate how Deleuze’s philosophy advances a conception of ‘historical creativity’, whereby history can be conceived as an ontological force of creativity. This research formed the basis for a number of journal articles, book chapters, and a monograph that will be published by Edinburgh University Press in May 2012, titled History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity.