This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ experience, as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the...

Seth Jacobowitz, in his paper "Watsuji and Deleuze and Guattari in the Climate of Culture," analyzes theories of cultural properties in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus alongside Watsuji Tetsuro's prewar Climate and Culture. At stake in these investigations is the status of the West as a universalizing particular ratified by these authors in the instance of its own critiq...

This paper discusses systems thinking development from Churchman’s systems ideas related to critical systems practice that appreciates the use of systems methods from sociolinguistic perspectives and poststructuralist thought. Systems research enabled us to understand and reinterpret Churchman’s philosophy and systems approach through the works of Deleuze and Foucault. Based upon the interpreta...

Recentemente, teóricos e críticos cinematográficos observaram o aparecimento, nas últimas três décadas, de um “cinema lentidão”. O conceito Slow Cinema é recuperado neste artigo, buscando possíveis conexões históricas culturais com outras experiências desaceleração do tempo. Categorias como flâneur (Benjamin), blasé (Simmel) pensamento sobre a hesitação, na filosofia Bergson, já apontavam para ...

Identity and community are two theoretical terms educators use for theorizing and understanding what happens in classrooms and for designing curriculum. There are, however, serious theoretical difficulties and incongruities in which the two terms are thought, which arise from the underlying ontology of the same. In this article, I propose to think the two terms within a different ontology, one ...