Episode #09: The Event
12/23/21 • 77 min
Hello Buddies! It has been a while... Sorry about that. We were well and truly defeated by The Fold. But rather than abandon our reading completely, we decided to branch out and try and make sense of one concept at the heart of the book. Lucky for us, it is a concept that remains at the heart of Deleuze’s thought until his death: “the event”.
In this episode, we talk about Alice in Wonderland, Charles Dickens, Stoicism, the life of philosophy, Deleuze’s death, and we also announced what’s next for the podcast in 2022...
For those that don’t already know, we will be partnering up with the recently relaunched Zer0 Books YouTube channel to present The K-Files, a deep-dive into the work of Mark Fisher. You can still find us here and listen to us elsewhere, but make sure to give Zer0 a sub as that channel will be getting first dibs on our YouTube videos from now on.
For now, you can listen below or, alternatively, find us on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean and YouTube.
If you like to read along with us, our discussion is based on “What is an Event?” from Deleuze’s book The Fold; various chapters of Logic of Sense, particularly the “First Series on Paradoxes of Pure Becoming” and the “Twenty-First Series of the Event”; and the essay “Immanence: A Life” from Pure Immanence.
You can find links to a few other things discussed and drawn upon below:
- “I’ll have to wander all alone” – Jacques Derrida’s eulogy for Gilles Deleuze
- Joë Bousquet
- The Deleuze Seminars, “Anti-Oedipus and Other Reflections”, lecture 2, 3 June 1980
- The Deleuze Seminars, “Leibniz and the Baroque”, lecture 18, 19 May 1987
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
Hello Buddies! It has been a while... Sorry about that. We were well and truly defeated by The Fold. But rather than abandon our reading completely, we decided to branch out and try and make sense of one concept at the heart of the book. Lucky for us, it is a concept that remains at the heart of Deleuze’s thought until his death: “the event”.
In this episode, we talk about Alice in Wonderland, Charles Dickens, Stoicism, the life of philosophy, Deleuze’s death, and we also announced what’s next for the podcast in 2022...
For those that don’t already know, we will be partnering up with the recently relaunched Zer0 Books YouTube channel to present The K-Files, a deep-dive into the work of Mark Fisher. You can still find us here and listen to us elsewhere, but make sure to give Zer0 a sub as that channel will be getting first dibs on our YouTube videos from now on.
For now, you can listen below or, alternatively, find us on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean and YouTube.
If you like to read along with us, our discussion is based on “What is an Event?” from Deleuze’s book The Fold; various chapters of Logic of Sense, particularly the “First Series on Paradoxes of Pure Becoming” and the “Twenty-First Series of the Event”; and the essay “Immanence: A Life” from Pure Immanence.
You can find links to a few other things discussed and drawn upon below:
- “I’ll have to wander all alone” – Jacques Derrida’s eulogy for Gilles Deleuze
- Joë Bousquet
- The Deleuze Seminars, “Anti-Oedipus and Other Reflections”, lecture 2, 3 June 1980
- The Deleuze Seminars, “Leibniz and the Baroque”, lecture 18, 19 May 1987
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
Previous Episode
Episode #08: The War Machine
This week we are joined by a very special guest, Lucy from the Wyrd Signal podcast. Together, we read the nomadology chapter on Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus.
We spoke about the form and content of State apparatuses, war machines, nomads, blobs, and how this all relates to conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine and the clandestine activities of the deep state.
Listen below or, alternatively, find us on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud, Podbean and YouTube.
If you like to read along with us, we read “1227: Treatise on Nomadology — The War Machine” from Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus — a chapter so long that has also been published in its own right as Nomadology: The War Machine.
Below you can find a list of additional links to further material that is either discussed over the course of this episode or which helped inform our readings:
- “The Crimes of SEAL Team 6” by Matthew Cole
- “The Art of War” by Eyal Weizman
- “19” by Paul Hardcastle
- “Bureaucracy to Battlefield” by Donald Rumsfeld
- “More, Less, or Different? Where U.S. Foreign Policy Should — And Shouldn’t — Go From Here” by Jake Sullivan
- Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
Next Episode
Episode #1: Megalithic Astropunk
Last year, Buddies Without Organs explored the works of Gilles Deleuze. Now, in association with Zer0 Books, we are turning towards the lesser-known works of Mark Fisher.
Fisher is a writer we all already love, and we felt he’d be great to read together. We’re starting as we intend to go on with a oft-neglected post from the Hyperstition blog about the 1970s children’s serial, Children of the Stones — a series that Fisher suggests is an example of an underrepresented British sci-fi genre: “megalithic astropunk”.
In a slight change to our hosting arrangements, the podcast will first be made available to Zer0 patreons, going live on their YouTube channel shortly afterwards, and finally appearing on our website a week after that.
From that point on, you can listen in all of the usual places, including Spotify, iTunes and Podbean. You’ll find the episode on YouTube here.
Below are a few links to things discussed in the episode, including the full series of Children of the Stones:
- Mark Fisher, “Megalithic Astropunk”, Hyperstition
- Children of the Stones
- CCRU, “Syzygy”
The K Files logo, theme tune and accompanying video introduction was created by Sereptie.
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