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Mannerist Portraiture: Deleuze and the Art of Philosophical Invention
This Deep Dive examines Sjoerd van Tuinen's explorations of Gilles Deleuze’s unique approach to the history of philosophy, characterizing it as a mannerist art of portraiture rather than a traditional academic study. Instead of merely repeating a thinker's words, Deleuze creates noetic portraits that use difference and repetition to produce a resemblance based on creative expression rather than literal mimicry. This method involves a "buggery" or "immaculate conception" of the past, where the commentator enters a philosopher’s work from behind to generate a "monstrous" but faithful offspring…
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