Charles Stivale & Dan Smith - Deleuze on Painting and the Question of Concepts

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This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted by Purdue University. Quick recap The team discussed the introduction of a new feature on Zoom that can summarize discussions. They also discussed the difference between a summary and a transcription, with Taylor noting that the summary feature was not as detailed as a transcription. The conversation then moved to a discussion about a future book based on revised transcripts of Deleuze's 1981 painting seminars. The team also discussed the content of the cinema books and their translations, as well as the author's view on modern art and philosophy. The discussion ended with Taylor bringing up the idea of practicing the act of deletion in pre-pictorial art. Summary Cooper introduced a new feature on Zoom that can summarize discussions, which Taylor and Daniel found interesting. The team discussed the difference between a summary and a transcription, with Taylor noting that the summary feature was not as detailed as a transcription. They also discussed the potential difficulty of creating transcripts and the possibility of using AI to generate auto captions. The conversation then moved to a discussion about a future book based on revised transcripts of Deleuze's 1981 painting seminars. The team also discussed the content of the cinema books and their translations. They then moved on to discuss the author's view on modern art and philosophy. The discussion ended with Taylor bringing up the idea of practicing the act of deletion in pre-pictorial art. The team also discussed the genesis of the Produce seminar program and the challenges faced in adding content and understanding the project's goals. They also discussed the collaborative nature of their project, emphasizing the importance of a team approach over individual efforts to ensure consistency and quality. Charles' research interests include 19th-century French novels, contemporary critical theory and cultural studies, and writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as serving as co-director, with Prof. Daniel W. Smith, of the Purdue University Deleuze Seminars web site, developing transcriptions and translations of Deleuze's university seminars. Dan Smith is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012, with Henry Somers Hall); Deleuze and Ethics (2011, with Nathan Jun); and Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009, with Eugene W. Holland and Charles J. Stivale). He is also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres. The Deleuze Seminars Website Hosted by Purdue: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh