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Jacob Vangeest

A 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…

2 min readJan 2, 2022

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A Thousand Plateaus Diagrams (Work in Progress)

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Jacob Vangeest

Difference and Repetition: Introduction, Repetition and Difference

Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is notoriously difficult. It is arguably the most difficult of Deleuze’s writings (though I’d put my…

14 min readDec 5, 2021

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Difference and Repetition: Introduction, Repetition and Difference

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Jacob Vangeest

Non-Philosophy Does Not Exist

In light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large…

6 min readJan 5, 2021

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Non-Philosophy Does Not Exist

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Jacob Vangeest

Theorizing COVID-19, Part Three: The Just in Time Post-biopolitical

This is the third part of a three part essay which attempts to theorize COVID-19. The first part, which lays something of a theoretical…

11 min readMar 27, 2020

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Theorizing COVID-19, Part Three: The Just in Time Post-biopolitical

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Jacob Vangeest

Theorizing COVID-19, Part Two: Agamben’s Application

Introduction*

13 min readMar 26, 2020

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Theorizing COVID-19, Part Two: Agamben’s Application

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Jacob Vangeest

Theorizing COVID-19, Part One: Biopolitical Metastability

“Can we go back to biopolitics? Whatever this is, it’s worse” -Mckennzie Wark

10 min readMar 26, 2020

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Theorizing COVID-19, Part One: Biopolitical Metastability

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Jacob Vangeest

An Analysis of Crepuscular Dawn

The 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…

13 min readAug 26, 2019

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An Analysis of Crepuscular Dawn

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Jacob Vangeest

A short engagement with political theology

I would argue that one of the most important passages on the relation between Christianity and Capitalism comes from a Walter Benjamin…

4 min readAug 22, 2019

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A short engagement with political theology

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Jacob Vangeest

Society of the Spectacle: The first three chapters

Debord’s Society of the Spectacle is an important interrogation into modern life. Below I have reproduced a brief commentary I made of the…

5 min readJul 24, 2019

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Society of the Spectacle: The first three chapters

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Jacob Vangeest

Resentment

The chorus to Andrew Jackson Jihad’s “Kokopelli Face Tattoo” could be the counter-anthem for contemporary political commentary. The lyrics…

3 min readJul 17, 2019

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Resentment

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Jacob Vangeest

Jacob Vangeest

PhD Student at University of Western Ontario in Theory/Criticism. Deleuze/Laruelle/Nietzsche. Current research on Plants/Spinoza/Simondon.

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