Against Continuity

Arjen Kleinherenbrink is Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Arguably one of the closest and most rigorous secondary readings of Deleuze’s oeuvre.

• Introduction: The Machine Thesis All Entities are Machines A Speculative Philosophy Method and Structure 1. Deleuze and Ontology Much Ado about Ontology To the Things Themselves A Fourfold and Three Syntheses First Intermezzo – Levi Bryant and Twofold Machines 2. The Externality Thesis Relations are External to Terms The Experience of Externality Speculative Arguments for Externality 3. Critiques of Internalism Difference and Repetition Depth and Height The Image of Thought 4. The Machinic Body No Being without a Body All Bodies are ProblematicSecond Intermezzo – Maurizio Ferraris and Unamendable Objects 5. Relations between Machines The Connective Synthesis Sense at the Surface Actuality is a Twofold Third Intermezzo – Markus Gabriel and Fields of Sense 6. Inside the Machines The Powers that Be Essence is a Twofold Fourth Intermezzo – Manuel DeLanda and Assemblage Theory 7. Machines and Change The Disjunctive Synthesis Fifth Intermezzo – Graham Harman and Fourfold Objects The Notion of Becoming Assemblages and Intensities 8. The Construction of Machines The Conjunctive Synthesis Sixth Intermezzo – Tristan Garcia and Formal Things Rhizomes and Hierarchies 9. Machine Ontology and Thought Self and World Seventh Intermezzo – Bruno Latour and Irreducible Actants Platonism and Paralogisms A Transcendental Empiricism Conclusion: Ontology and Discontinuity Bibliography Names Index General Index