Written Works contains my original writings – essays, articles, musings, etc., as well as references, images, and writings from other sources compiled under the category headings listed below.
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| PHILOSOPHY & ART: AESTHETICS, CINEMA & MUSIC: What you will find here considers the following questions: What is the significance of art? What role does it play in our individual and collective lives? Are artworks able to communicate truths, or is truth beside the point when it comes to art? What is the relationship between art and modern capitalism? This page features collections for the following; Art & Aesthetics Philosophy of Cinema Philosophy of Music |
| PHILOSOPHERS: Deleuze, Spinoza, and Marx are thinkers widely known in the western world. Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, less so. With a colleague, Yanghua, professor of philosopher at Beijing University of Technology, I have written a book titled, The Piping of Heaven: Music, Mind, and Metaphysics in the Zhuangzi. In this section of the website, you can find excepted parts of that book, as well as articles and book excerpts from my writings on Deleuze, Spinoza, and Marx. Here you will find collections of my work specific to Giles DeLeuze Karl Marx Spinoza Zhuangzi. |
| MAGIC & PHANTASMAGORIA: Magic has always fascinated me as it continues to fascinate many people. I’m currently writinga book titled, Two Faces of Magic, that examines the relation between what some societiesconsider to be real magic and conjuring, i.e. magic-trick magic. Phantasmagoria is the title of an unfinished book about the relation between the European avant-garde, the art of indigenous peoples, and global capitalism. This page features the following; Magic Phantasmagoria |
| POLITICS AND WORKER’S MOVEMENTS: Karl Marx once wrote, “As for me, I am no Marxist.” He was a wise man. To call oneself a Marxist risks imprisonment in a static ideology, while Marx continually re-evaluated his previous work, regarding it as an unfinished project. In fact, at the end of his life, he was reformulating one of his most important contributions to human understanding, his theory of history. In this section, you will find my writings about Marx, movements inspired by him, and my own Marx-inflected involvement in labor activism. You will also find articles from my political journalism. This page features collections for the following; Athens on the Debt Crisis Union Struggles in Academia Contigent Workers Miscellaneous Politics |