Thinking time and change via Deleuze

Dr Antonia Pont (Deakin University )

***note that the room for this seminar is HE2.016***

This paper offers a close reading of Gilles Deleuze’s approach to thinking time in relation to the notions of difference and repetition. If we seek to come to a rigorous thought of what enables change, or what the mechanisms for change might be, Deleuze’s scholarship in Bergsonism and Difference and Repetition makes an important contribution to this project. This paper will unpack in a clear and accessible way some of the crucial terms and movements of this stage in his undertaking, as well as linking these to questions of artistic production and ascetic registers.

Antonia Pont is a Melbourne-based poet and theorist. She is Lecturer in Text (Literary Studies and Professional and Creative Writing) at Deakin University, teaching in writing, literature and philosophy. Her research is mostly preoccupied with time, ontologies, thinking change and the ‘evental’, loss constellations and aporia in the Derridean lineage, the invention, inaccurate autobiographies, praxis, and the question of ontology as ethical undertaking.