Deleuze, Gilles

Bio Sketch

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher whose work — with and without Félix Guattari — reoriented continental philosophy around difference, becoming, and multiplicity rather than identity and representation. His concepts of the fold, smooth/striated space, deterritorialisation, the assemblage, and the "any-space-whatever" have been widely taken up in architecture, geography, and cultural theory. He matters to Geoffrey's research because his spatial thought underwrites both the parametric/digital turn (via the fold and the baroque house) and a critical alternative to it, and because he was previously logged as a "page needed" gap in the wiki.

Key Works

• Difference and Repetition (1968) — the philosophy of difference and the intensive.
• The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988) — the baroque house, folding, and the "superfold."
• A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari, 1980) — smooth/striated space, the assemblage, deterritorialisation, the war machine.
• Cinema 1 & 2 (1983, 1985) — the movement-image and time-image; the "any-space-whatever."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Assemblage — the machinic assemblage, haecceity, and plane of consistency.
• Smooth and Striated Space
• Deterritorialisation — the process by which fixed territories, codes, and identities are loosened, freeing flows; always in tension with reterritorialisation.
• Warped Space — Vidler's account of the Deleuzian roster of "folded," "smooth," and "striated" space.
• Uncanny — the Deleuzian "any-space-whatever" and the "Outside" as a form of the unhomely.
• Heterotopia — Deleuze's "other spaces" alongside Foucault's counter-sites.

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Deleuze is a double-edged resource for Geoffrey's projects. On one side, his spatial concepts (the fold, smooth/striated space, deterritorialisation) are the theoretical vocabulary of the parametric/digital turn that Douglas Spencer critiques as "architectural Deleuzism" — the very "architecture of neoliberalism" the wiki analyses. On the other side, Deleuze's thought of difference, the "any-space-whatever," and the "Outside" offers a critical resource against the spectacular, image-driven city, and connects to the wiki's Ideology and Critical Architecture concepts (Wallenstein's reformulation of critique "beneath the subject" draws on Deleuze). His account of space and habitability, as reconstructed in Deleuze and Space, also speaks to the Dwelling and Phenomenology strands.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Architecture is Always in the Middle (Gough 2015) — the assemblage as the ontology of bread-and-butter architecture; haecceity, plane of consistency vs. plane of organisation.
• Deleuze and Space (Buchanan & Lambert eds. 2005)
• Warped Space (Vidler 2000) — discusses the Deleuzian spatial roster
• Architecture, Critique, Ideology (Wallenstein 2016) — Deleuze as the thinker critique must absorb