Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:12:53 -0400
From: el <106106.2350-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: DELEUZEGUATTARI & MATTER




                        DELEUZEGUATTARI & MATTER
                        October 18-9 1997
                Philosophy Department, University of Warwick

        Since the form depends on an autonomous code, it can only be     
       

       constituted in   an associated milieu that interlaces active,     
       

       perceptive, and energetic characteristics in a complex fashion, in
       

       conformity with the code's requirements; and the form can develop only   

       through intermediary milieus that regulate the speeds and rates of its   

       substances; and it can experience itself only in a milieu of      
       

       exteriority that measures the comparative advantages of the associated   

       milieus and the differential relations of the intermediary milieus

        CS 2 68/51

        When content and expression are divided along the lines of the   
       

       molecular and the molar, substances move from state to state, from the   

       preceding state to the following state, or from layer to layer, from an  

already constituted layer to a layer in the process of forming, while    
       

forms install themselves at the limit between the last layer or last     
       

state and the exterior milieu. Thus the stratum develops into epistrata  
       

and parastrata; this is accomplished through a set of inductions from    
       

layer to layer and state to state, or at the limit. A crystal            
       

displays this process in its pure state, since its form expands in all   
       

directions but always as a function of the surface layer of the          
       

substance, which can be emptied of most of its interior without          
       

interfering with the growth.    CS 2 78/60

This conference will address the specificity of the DeleuzoGuattarian 

contribution to the reformulation of a philosophy of matter. The confirmed 

papers address this issue from a number of different perspectives, and 

constitute the beginnings of a research programme that sharply demarcates the 

DeleuzoGuattarian project and the enquiries that it initiates from other 

emergent critical apparatuses.

A philosophy of matter is produced out of pragmatic engagement with 

DeleuzeGuattari's many headed critique of hylomorphism, atomism, and what in 

general can be called 'identity theory', theories such as mechanics and 

energetics, where matter is flatlined under the prerogative of the physical. 

These lines of attack, and the concern to circumvent representation (the 

challenge thrown down to "signifier enthusiasts"), combine with the attempt to 

create an immanent grounding of the flows of energetic materiality, a concern 

less with "a matter submitted to laws than a materiality possessing a nomos" (CS
2 508/408).

It will not be a question of making matter the matter of philosophy, but of 

constituting philosophy as immanent to matter in every case. To flesh philosophy
out with zones of materiality is, we think, to take an impetus from 

DeleuzeGuattari, to make of philosophy a pragmatics. It is a question of free 

energy, what can be done with the materials synthesised by DeleuzeGuattari?

Zones of Engagement include:

--code
--hylomorphism
--intensity
--machinic propositions
--nomos/praxis
--number: ordinality/cardinality: production
--semiotics
--singularities


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS include: El Albert, Eric Alliez, Paul Bains, Jon 

Beasley-Murray, Diane Beddoes, Joan Broadhurst, Gilles Chatelet, Mick Ear
dley, 

Nick Land, Suhail Malik, Bruce McClure, Terry Price, Brian Rotman.

COST: 15UK      Waged   5UK     students and unemployed

Cheques made payable to 'The University of Warwick' should be sent to one
 of the
terrestrial addresses below.

Speakers and those wishing to attend will meet in the 'Airport Bar' in th
e 

Rootes Building at the University of Warwick from 19:00 hrs onwards on 17
/10/97.

The conference itself will be in the Social Studies building.
Registration c.09:30 hrs 18/10.
Papers start c.10:30 hrs 18/10.
Papers finish c.18:00 hrs 19/10.
Room to be confirmed.

Any other queries should be addressed to

106106.2350-AT-compuserve.com AND pyred-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk

OR by pynchonpost to 242 Queensbridge Road London E8 3NB UK AND to MATTER
 c/o 

Philosophy Department, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL UK