Date:         Mon, 12 Aug 96 08:59:46 EDT
From: "Charles J. Stivale" <CSTIVAL-AT-cms.cc.wayne.edu>
Subject:      Re: citation


On Sun, 04 Aug 1996 01:42:08 -0700 <jjthorn-AT-sirius.com> said:
>In a conversation on Serres, a publication entitled "conversations on
>science , culture and time" was mentioned can someone give me the correct
>and complete citation? thnks. judith thorn
Michel Serres with Bruno Latour, _Conversations on Science, Culture, and
Time_ Trans. Roxanne Lapidus. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1995. ISBN
0-472-06548-3
The only reference made by Serres in this text (that I found at least) occurs
on p.39-40. Deleuze "separated himself from the traditional history of philoso-
phy, from the human sciences, from epistemology. He's an excellent example
of the dynamic movement of free and inventive thinking." To which Latour
unhelpfully (from our perspective) responds: "Dumezil too. He had a completely
atypical career." Which sends Serres off the Deleuze track, to which he had
arrived all on his own in this discussion. After a comment in which Latour
talks about how French intellectuals tend to claim to be persecuted. Serres
demurs slightly, and then suggests: "Let's talk more about Gilles Deleuze,
who was truly and seriously exiled from academic circles. The greatest
praise I can say of him is that philosophy made him truly happy. Profoundly
serene. And thus, once again, exemplary." Latour's unhelpfulness here is even
more egregious in response: "You may have taught for a large part of your life
in the United States. Do you generalize your negative experience of discussion
to that country as well?" <Serres says, yes and no, but not in so many words>
That's it. Unless I missed the huge Deleuze discussion later on in the text,
Latour seems singularly uninterested or unwilling to pursue Serres's blunt
suggestion that they discuss Deleuze. Any thoughts?
Charles J. Stivale