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The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith

Pills is graced by the presence of the eminent Deleuze scholar, editor,  and translator, Daniel W. Smith. Dan explains how he came to Deleuzian  philosophy, why it matters, and previews the exciting Deleuze Seminars  project, which is almost finished translating 20 years of Deleuze's  lectures into English.   

The Deleuze Seminars (English, Purdue University): https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/  

Si vous pouvez comprendre le français, il y en a plus a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France   https://gallica.bnf.fr/html///und/enregistrements-sonores/gilles-deleuze-cours-donnes-luniversite-paris-8-vincennes-saint-denis-1979-0?mode=desktop

The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith

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Great stuff, had no idea about Kant's conception of desire there, and it's fascinating that he had already started seeing its essence as ultimately productive.

anacidcommie

Well, something more worrying is not if an AI system is sentient or not, but what does it do (or can do) and if others think is sentient... so, welcome, massive ai cults

Gonzalo Pacheco Covili

Quality. The Deleuze seminars are amazing!

James Foster Evans

Off topic, but what do you think of the news of ai getting concious? I mean, of course is bullshit, as the goal of the LaMDA and others bots is to fool the interlocutor and this is a very advanced bot (well, family of models or hive-mind) that was trained and tweaked to be consistent, factual and more "correct" (and pc). There's a paper from a Google Engineer, from 2021, criticizing this notiong of sentience (yet), but clearly he does not grasp the concept of embodied knowledge, as he's quoting from Varela, Thompson and Rosch ( https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Sp22_13_Aguera%20y%20Arcas.pdf ) But, I wanted to say, that the Machine Learning systems that are mainstream from 2012 onwards, specially after AlexNet, work not based on declarative programming, but are based on neural networks (CNNs, Deep Learning, etc) that are somewhat closer to what Dreyfuss called a more Heideggerian AI, although just too little, as the system doesn't care, is not invested in the world, even if it is optimizing a cost function. That's it, that's my comment/question. If I were more versed on the subject maybe I would say more, and maybe what I said is full of holes, but whatevs

Gonzalo Pacheco Covili

"Deleuze read concepts like characters in a novel" that's kind of how they feel in Pills' main youtube videos

Alex B

Cant wait to dig into those seminars.

Khemith

Banger

Zack Klug

It's called "essays on deleuze", which was a selection of his articles from between 1994 and 2012.

Plastic Pills

Pills - when he was discussing his book on Deleuze, which one was he referring to?

Mark C

Just yesterday I submitted my first ever piece of work on Deleuze and it is so encouraging to hear a professional Deleuze scholar talk about the fact he still has challenges I spent weeks researching the dogmatic image of thought and I had never been less sure of the quality of my work. Every time I thought I grasped the content I would see a new angle that fundamentally changed the whole direction of the work I think I am going to spend a long time with Deleuze in the coming years

Will Thomas

Loved this interview, maybe I'll finally take the plunge. Just am so unfamiliar with Spinoza that I think I need to read a bit before I'm ready

Max Monheit

Yayy been longing for a new pill pod on deleuze

stoorzender

Wow this was amazing, answered alot of curiosities

Waya Dalimber

This was really educational! Need more overdoses.

Darth Vader

Perfect way to start my morning!

Matt S


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