Jacob VangeestA Thousand Plateaus Diagrams (Work in Progress)Here I offer a project of cartography (or perhaps decalcomania), wherein I’ve attempted to diagram several of the Plateaus from Deleuze and…Jan 2, 2022Jan 2, 2022
Jacob VangeestDifference and Repetition: Introduction, Repetition and DifferenceDeleuze’s Difference and Repetition is notoriously difficult. It is arguably the most difficult of Deleuze’s writings (though I’d put my…Dec 5, 2021Dec 5, 2021
Jacob VangeestNon-Philosophy Does Not ExistIn light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large…Jan 5, 2021Jan 5, 2021
Jacob VangeestTheorizing COVID-19, Part Three: The Just in Time Post-biopoliticalThis is the third part of a three part essay which attempts to theorize COVID-19. The first part, which lays something of a theoretical…Mar 27, 2020Mar 27, 2020
Jacob VangeestTheorizing COVID-19, Part Two: Agamben’s ApplicationIntroduction*Mar 26, 2020Mar 26, 2020
Jacob VangeestTheorizing COVID-19, Part One: Biopolitical Metastability“Can we go back to biopolitics? Whatever this is, it’s worse” -Mckennzie WarkMar 26, 2020Mar 26, 2020
Jacob VangeestAn Analysis of Crepuscular DawnThe following is a presentation I gave a number of years ago for a seminar I participated in with J. Adams at the New Centre for Research…Aug 26, 2019Aug 26, 2019
Jacob VangeestA short engagement with political theologyI would argue that one of the most important passages on the relation between Christianity and Capitalism comes from a Walter Benjamin…Aug 22, 20191Aug 22, 20191
Jacob VangeestSociety of the Spectacle: The first three chaptersDebord’s Society of the Spectacle is an important interrogation into modern life. Below I have reproduced a brief commentary I made of the…Jul 24, 2019Jul 24, 2019
Jacob VangeestResentmentThe chorus to Andrew Jackson Jihad’s “Kokopelli Face Tattoo” could be the counter-anthem for contemporary political commentary. The lyrics…Jul 17, 2019Jul 17, 2019