Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's work

'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as 'The Actual and the Virtual', 'Lucretius and the Simulacrum', and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.

The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's ...