Tag Archives: Deleuze

Making music as rhythming the refrain and becoming-bird

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

As I embark on listening to the twenty-piece, two-hour solo piano cycle, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus (1944) by Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), I start with the opening     glance/gaze/contemplation, the one from the perspective of the father, Regard du Père. I try … Continue reading →

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Α melancholic ethic

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

In all kinds of work associated with Robert Schumann a ruminating protagonist draws on melancholy as an ascesis of affect to practice a post-classical critique of repetition and identity. We see this role everywhere, from the Byronic unrepentant hero in … Continue reading →

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Τhe friend as internal condition of thought

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

The friend is not an external circumstance but an internal presupposition of all thought as such. This friend, the “other self,” is a philosophical and political condition of thought: He is not the second piano but the second pair of … Continue reading →

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Deleuze’s concept of assemblage in Greek Studies

Posted on March 4, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

I have been reading with special interest and profit very recent, published and unpublished, work by scholars in various disciplines who approach different sites, periods, and aspects of Greek culture by activating the major Deleuzian concept of assemblage. Since I too … Continue reading →

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