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Conference proposal: From Monadic Architecture to Nomadic Anarchitecture

Follow-up to A limited aesthetics: the treatment of space in the Critique of Judgement from Transversality - Robert O'Toole

I now have a title for my proposed paper for the forthcoming Leibniz and Deleuze conference at Warwick.

And there are at least a few ideas behind that facade to give it substance. Firstly, a consideration of methodology with an examination of 'problem', 'plane', 'concept' and 'component' from What Is Philosophy? and Bergsonism. And then the questions: what brokenness exactly does Leibniz address? And what brokenness does the substitution (?) of nomadology for monadology fix?

I haven't quite got answer to these questions yet, but I do think that there is some interesting work to be done in examining the spatial and architectural aspects of The Fold. And of course Kant will be there, as the poor relation with his impoverished aesthetics.

I will also see what interesting oddities can be excavated from the more obscure works by Leibniz, such as those translated on this useful site

: 29 Apr 2005 12:53 |  Tags: Philosophy Planning |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem