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2 results in Crosscurrents

Order and the Virtual
  • The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology
  • Bill Ross
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    04 March 2026
    Print publication:
    30 June 2024
  • Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by figures such as Lee Smolin and David Bohm calls into question the assumption that the laws of physics are universal and unchanging, a view that Deleuze anticipates. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that order in the universe as a whole is destined to break down. Against this, Ross demonstrates that, given Deleuze's conception of the event as an expression of non-locality, and his emphasis on dissymmetry over symmetry, at the cosmological scale the universe is not destined towards disorder: evolution outruns entropy.

Sublime Art
  • Towards an Aesthetics of the Future
  • Stephen Zepke
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    23 June 2018
    Print publication:
    31 August 2017
  • Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement.