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Western University

2017

Deleuze

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The Ontological-Ontic Character Of Mythology, Jeffrey M. Ray Aug 2017

The Ontological-Ontic Character Of Mythology, Jeffrey M. Ray

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This thesis interrogates the concept of mythology within the opposing philosophical frameworks of the world as either an abstract totality from which ‘truth’ is derived, or as a chaotic background to which the subject brings a synthetic unity. Chapter One compares the culturally dominant, classical philosophical picture of the world as a necessary, knowable totality, with the more recent conception of the ‘world’ as a series of ideational repetitions (sense) grafted on to material flows emanating from a chaotic background (non-sense). Drawing on Plato, Kant, and Heidegger, I situate mythology as a conception of the false—that which fails to …


Tracing The Interstice: Godard, Deleuze, And The Future Of Cinema, Anthony C. Coughlin Aug 2017

Tracing The Interstice: Godard, Deleuze, And The Future Of Cinema, Anthony C. Coughlin

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This thesis aims to demonstrate how cinema, despite its diffusion from celluloid projection into different forms and arenas of media (primarily digital), still has the power to articulate the relationship between thought and images and produce concepts for philosophical practice. This thesis also aims to appropriate from Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy several concepts for the study of cinema itself, and for the understanding of cinema as it is produced by Jean-Luc Godard. Using two of Godard’s recent films: In Praise of Love (2001), and Goodbye to Language (2014), this paper will elaborate the relevance to contemporary filmmaking of Cinema 2 …