The Death of Gilles Deleuze as Composition of a Concept. Issue 1 (February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beaulieu, Alain; Ord, Douglas
• Is Part Of: Deleuze studies. Volume 11:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 121
• Page End: 138
• Publication Date: 2017-02
• Subjects: Deleuze -- death -- suicide -- Carroll -- Alice -- event -- concept -- Aion -- Chronos -- 4 November; Philosophy, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 194
• DOI: 10.3366/dls.2017.0254
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2241

Abstract

Abstract : There was a wide range of in memoriam and homages published in the years following Deleuze's suicide. However, none of them succeeded in grasping 'the evential' aspect of his death. This paper identifies a series of errors in the literature on Deleuze's death. It also suggests a way to overcome them by considering a singular encounter between Alice's passage through the looking glass and Deleuze's defenestration, which both took place on 4 November. We will show how a new conception of death as event comes out of this unseen connection.