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Research

Areas of interest:

• Cosmology and Chaosmology
• Immanence
• Limit-experience
• Metaphysics
• Spinoza
• Nietzsche
• Deleuze
• Foucault
• Phenomenology

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Conference presentations:

• 2023 (Invitation) ?Deleuze in French Canada?, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Panel?: ?Deleuze in Canada?, Toronto Metropolitain University, Ontario, 12-14 octobre.

• 2023 ?Cosmic Interferences in the work of Deleuze and Guattari? 15th annual Deleuze and Guattari Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, 10-12 juillet.

• 2021 ?The age of the cosmic in the artistic works of Kandinsky, Klee and Stockhausen?, 13th annual Deleuze and Guattari Conference, Prag, Czech Republic (virtual conference), 5-7 juillet

• 2021, ?A few Notes on the Status of Modern Art in the Development of Gilles Deleuze and F¨¦lix Guattari¡¯s C(ha)osmological Thinking,?, Groupe de discussion virtuelle en philosophie et cosmologie, Laurentienne, 31 mars.

• 2021, ?Comprendre et expliquer?, Symposium sur la recherche en sciences humaines, CIRISH, Laurentienne, 5 mars.
• 2020, ¡°Chaosmos as Scientific and Cultural Creation for Deleuze and Guattari?, 13th annual Deleuze and Guattari Conference, Prag, Czech Republic, June 29 juin ¨C 1 July, 2020 (paper accepted, but conference postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus)
• 2019, ?Exploring the Quantum Void and C(ha)osmic Fractals with Gilles Deleuze?, S¨¦rie de presentations publiques ?Philosophie et cosmologie?, Universit¨¦ Laurentienne, 20 novembre.

• 2019, ?Can the Deleuzo-Guattarian thought find be interesting to scientific cosmology??, 12th annual Deleuze and Guattari Conference, University of London, UK, 8-10 juillet.

• 2018, ?What science can and cannot say about exobiolife? A Deleuzo-Guattarian microrevolutionary answer?, Inaugural Posthumanism Research Network workshop, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, Canada, April 14-15.

• 2017 ?Gilles Deleuze and the Extraterrestrials?, 10th international Deleuze Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, 19-21 Juin.

• 2016 ?Deleuze and Guattari's Cosmological Thought: Philosophy, Science, Art?, 9th international Deleuze Studies Conference, Roma, Italia, 11-13 Juillet.

• 2015, ?Le g¨¦ostatisme de Husserl et le g¨¦odynamisme de Deleuze/Guattari: deux perspectives cosmologiques?, International Conference Gilles Deleuze and F¨¦lix Guattari. Refrain of Freedom. Panteion University and of the Institut Fran?ais de Gr¨¨ce, Athens (Greece), April 24-26.
• 2015, ?La philosophie de la cosmologie de Platon jusqu'¨¤ aujourd'hui?, Soci¨¦t¨¦ d'astronomie du plan¨¦tarium de Montr¨¦al, Montr¨¦al, Canada, 27 f¨¦vrier.
• 2015 ?Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl's and Deleuze' Cosmologies?, Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizsnship and Posthumanism, Brock University, Canada, 6-8 f¨¦vrier.
• 2014 "Deleuze in the Cosmological Tradition", 7th international Deleuze Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 14-16.
• 2013 Round table on the publication of Michel Foucault's seminars Du gouvernement des vivants, with Michel Sennelart and Christian Nadeau, Soci¨¦t¨¦ de philosophie du Qu¨¦bec, Acfas, Universit¨¦ Laval, Canada, May 6.
• 2013 "Foucault et l'¨¦thique publique", Universit¨¦ Saint-Paul, Canada, April 19.
• 2013 "La 'grande sant¨¦' selon Deleuze et Focuault?, Departement of Philosophy, Universit¨¦ de Sherbrooke, Canada, March 13.
• 2012 "Deleuze and Foucault as symptomatologists", International Conference "Between Deleuze and Foucault", Purdue University, USA, Nov. 30-Dec. 1.
• 2012 Book launch followed by a discussion on "Deleuze and Foucault" (with R. Fillion) organised by the Sudbury Philosophical Society, La Fromagerie, Sudbury, Nov. 21.
• 2012 "Foucault and Deleuze as 'Doctors of Civilization'," Deleuze-Foucault panel at the 5th international Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, USA, June 25-27.
• 2012 "Bloch, Deleuze et l'utopie" (with Lucien Pelletier), ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Canada, March 6.
• 2012 Round table "Imagine: Research Methods in the Humanities", ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Canada, January 11.
• 2011 "Canguilhem and Foucault: the Foundation of a Radical Sociology of Health", The 10th Annual International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1-4.
• 2011 ?La critique ¨¤ partir de Kant et Foucault?, Symposium La pens¨¦e critique?: nature et d¨¦veloppement dans le contexte de la formation universitaire et professionnelle, ACFAS-Sudbury, April 6.
• 2011 ?Foucault:? A radical follower of Canguilhem?, 11th annual conference of the Foucault Circle, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, March 25-27.
• 2010 "The status of animality in Deleuze¡¯s thought", Workshop Rethinking the NonHumn, Uni. of Alberta, Canada, Octobre 3.
• 2010 "Foucault and the Philosophy of Health", Department of Philosophy, Uni. of Alberta, Canada, Sept. 30.
• 2010 "Peter Eisenman and Gilles Deleuze on Space and Architecture", 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 13.
• 2009 "Le champion du d¨¦sespoir" (with B. Lafargue and N. Reeves), International event in arts and mental health organized by Folie/Culture, Ville de Qu¨¦bec, Canada, 2 octobre.
• 2009 "Le programme d¡¯Histoire de la folie de Foucault fut un ¨¦chec", Multidisciplinary event organized by Folie/Culture, Ville de Qu¨¦bec, Canada, 1st octobre.
• 2009 "De la r¨¦volution iranienne ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦thique du souci de soi chez Foucault", Colloque de l¡¯Acfas?: "?thique et subjectivit¨¦ : Gouvernement de soi et des autres", University of Ottawa, Canada, May 12.
• 2009 ?Les divers aspects de l¡¯implication dans le milieu de la recherche universitaire?, Research Week, ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Canada, February 10.
• 2008 "V¨¦rit¨¦ et narration?: le statut du dit dans l¡¯exp¨¦rience limite. R¨¦flexions ¨¤ partir de Paul Ricoeur, Primo Levi et Varlam Chalamov", S¨¦minaire "Pens¨¦e & Culture", ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Canada, Octobre 15.
• 2008 "Foucault et la spiritualit¨¦" (Guest lecturer), Universit¨¦ Laval, Canada, April 9.
• 2008 "Peter Eisenman and the Deleuzian Experience of Space", Symposium: Memory and the Environment, ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Canada, March 28.
• 2008 "Les d¨¦m¨ºl¨¦s de Merleau-Ponty avec Freud: des pulsions ¨¤ une psychanalyse de la Nature", 100 Years of Merleau-Ponty. A Centenary Conference, Sofia University, Bulgaria, March 14.
• 2007 "La r¨¦ception de Histoire de la folie de Michel Foucault", ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Oct. 12.
• 2007 "Jay Lampert's Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History" (Guest panelist, book session), Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Oct. 7.
• 2007 "La pratique deleuzienne de l¡¯histoire", ACFAS, Journ¨¦e d¡¯¨¦tude: ?Contr'hommage ¨¤ Gilles Deleuze. Nouvelles lectures, nouvelles ¨¦critures?, UQTR, Trois-Rivi¨¨res, Canada, May 11.
• 2007 "Foucault?: The Praxis of Liberalism", Ph.D. course "Foucault and Practice" (Seminar, Guest lecturer), Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 16.
• 2006 "Deleuze et Badiou?: retour sur la question de l¡¯¨ºtre", Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 31.
• 2006 "Phenomenology and Existentialism", Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (NY), USA, April 7.
• 2006 "Michel Foucault¡¯s liberation project", Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (NY), USA, April 6.
• 2006 "Michel Foucault et la tradition lib¨¦rale", Universit¨¦ du Qu¨¦bec ¨¤ Montr¨¦al, Quebec, Canada, March 29.
• 2006 "Husserl and Heidegger?: the making and unmaking of a relationship", ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ, Ontario, Canada, March 21.
• 2006 "? quoi sert la philosophie??", University of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, March 14.
• 2005 "Michel Foucault and Critical Theory", University of Sudbury (ON), Canada, July 25.
• 2005 "Michel Foucault et la d¨¦sinstitutionnalisation", Department of Philosophy, Universit¨¦ du Qu¨¦bec ¨¤ Montr¨¦al, Canada, May 19.
• 2005 "Speculations over Foucault's later 'Politico-poetics'", Fifth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, Orlando (FL), USA, February 19.
• 2004 "Foucault, une pens¨¦e ¨¦v¨¦nement: les derni¨¨res publications" (with Y.C. Zarka, CNRS), Librairie Gallimard, Montreal, Canada, October 21.
• 2004 "Michel Foucault and Social Control", Institut f¨¹r Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, Germany, June 7.
• 2004 "The Eclipse of the Difference between "Subjective Power" and "Capacity of Affectability" in Heidegger's Interpretation of Nietzsche's Concept of Power (Macht)", Konferenz der Martin-Heidegger-Forschungsgruppe, Me?kirch, Germany, May 26.
• 2004 "La micropolitique de Gilles Deleuze: par del¨¤ les sph¨¨res du public et du priv¨¦", International Conference Gilles Deleuze: Experimenting with Intensities. Science, Philosophy, Politics, Arts, Trent University (ON), Canada, May 14.
• 2004 "Des soci¨¦t¨¦s disciplinaires aux soci¨¦t¨¦s de contr?le", International Conference Michel Foucault and Social Control, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, May 8.
• 2004 "What does "Perhaps, one Day, this Century will be known as Deleuzean" (Foucault) mean?", University of Ottawa, January 13.
• 2003 Commentary of J. Wong's lecture, "Child Development as Historical Ontology: A Reply to Hacking", Ontario Philosophical Society, University of Ottawa, November 8.
• 2003 "Mondialisation et normalisation: une perspective foucaldienne sur les enjeux reli¨¦s ¨¤ la d¨¦sinstitutionnalisation des soins psychiatriques", Colloque FODAR - Perspectives philosophiques sur la mondialisation, Universit¨¦ du Qu¨¦bec ¨¤ Montr¨¦al, Canada, October 10.
• 2003 "The Enchantment of the Body in Nietzsche and Husserl", World Institute of Phenomenology, Istanbul, Turkey, August 15.
• 2003 "La grammaire de la renaissance spinoziste: puissance, multitude et d¨¦mocratie non-repr¨¦sentative", International Federation of Philosophical Societies, Istanbul, Turkey, August 13.
• 2003 "La red¨¦finition de l'homme par l'¨¦tude du corps vivant ¨¤ partir de Nietzsche et Husserl", 9th International French-German Philosophy Colloquium, Evian/Lac L¨¦man, France, July 17.
• 2003 "Gilles Deleuze¡¯s Critique of Phenomenological Incarnation and the Body Without Organs", The British Society for Phenomenology, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, July 13.
• 2003 Commentary of J. Brown's lecture, "Deleuze's Nietzschean Revaluation: the Image of Thought/Thought Without Image", Canadian Philosophical Association, Dalhousie University, Canada, June 2.
• 2003 "La critique de la dialectique: ¨¦l¨¦ments d'une confrontation entre Adorno et Deleuze", Canadian Philosophical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, May 31.
• 2003 "L'art figural de Francis Bacon et Brian Ferneyhough", Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, May 31.
• 2003 "Gilles Deleuze and Literature: Langage, Life and the Doctrine of Judgment", International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA, May 15.
• 2003 "Les fondements de la renaissance spinoziste en philosophie politique contemporaine", Centre de recherche en ¨¦thique de l'Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Canada, April 26.
• 2002 "Deleuze's Vitalist Interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics", International Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Montreal, Canada, August 14.
• 2002 "The Difference between Deleuzian Political Philosophy and Althusser¡¯s Contingent Materialism in later Works", Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, University of Toronto, Canada, June 1.
• 2002 "Communities that foster Diverse Modes of Existence Vs. Societies based on Control. A Phenomenological Approach to improve the De-institutionalization Process", Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada, May 28.
• 2002 "Accords et faux-raccords entre les conceptions du cin¨¦ma de Jean-Luc Godard et Gilles Deleuze", Canadian Society for Aesthetics, University of Toronto, Canada, May 27.
• 2002 "La philosophie des processus de Whitehead et les doctrines ¨¦volutionnistes", Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto, Canada, May 27.
• 2002 "Y a-t-il quelque chose ¨¤ comprendre? Sur l'opposition entre la philosophie herm¨¦neutique et les? philosophies de l'¨¦v¨¦nement", Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, University of Toronto, Canada, May 26.
• 2002 Commentary of F. Chalifour's lecture, "L'iconoclasme contemporain: la d¨¦tection visuelle face ¨¤ l'image technologique", Canadian Society for Aesthetics, University of Toronto, May 26.
• 2002 "La notion de vie chez Husserl et les doctrines ¨¦volutionnistes", Soci¨¦t¨¦ de philosophie du Qu¨¦bec, Universit¨¦ Laval, Canada, May 16.
• 2002 "L'exp¨¦rience existentielle de l'habiter", ACFAS-Association francophone pour le savoir, Universit¨¦ Laval, Canada, May 16.
• 2002 "Gilles Deleuze et le cin¨¦ma: de l¡¯image-mouvement ¨¤ l¡¯image-temps", Centre canadien d¡¯¨¦tudes allemandes et europ¨¦ennes, Canada, February 25.
• 2001 "Spatialit¨¦ et existence", GRASP/Centre-FCAR, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Canada, December 3.
• 2001 "L¡¯existence sans institution", GRASP/Centre-FCAR, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Canada, April 11.
• 2001 "Deleuze et la pr¨¦sence en peinture chez Bacon", Department of Philosophy, Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al, Canada, March 30.
• 2001 "La micropolitique de Gilles Deleuze", Soci¨¦t¨¦ de philosophie du Qu¨¦bec, Universit¨¦ du Qu¨¦bec ¨¤ Trois-Rivi¨¨res, Canada, February 23.

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Awards

• Selection of awards:
• 2018-2024: SSHRC Insight Grant, "Gilles Deleuze and Cosmology," with collaborators Janae Sholtz, Ubi Wichoski, Gennady Chitov (70 800$)
• 2015: Agence universitaire de la francophonie (3000 €)
• 2011-2013: SSHRC Standard Research Grant, "L'exp¨¦rience du corps chez Foucault: sant¨¦, sexualit¨¦, alimentation et animalit¨¦" (Co-investigator) (38 400$)
• 2010-2013: SSHRC Standard Research Grant, "Le tournant ¨¦thique chez Foucault et les usages de sa pens¨¦e" (Principal investigator) (48 000$)
• 2004-2006: SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowships (Department of Philosophy, McGill University)

Teaching

Universit¨¦ Laurentienne / ºÚÁϳԹϲ»´òìÈ (2006-2021):

Publications

Selection of publications:

Books

• (Co-ed. with Edward Karazian and Julia Sushytska), Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics, Lanham/Oxford, Lexington Books, 2014.
• (Co-ed. with M. Ferguson), Studies in Disability, Sudbury, Monographic Series in Human Studies, 2013.
• Cuerpo y acontecimiento. La est¨¦tica de Gilles Deleuze, Buenos Aires, Letra Viva, 2012.
• Gilles Deleuze et ses contemporains, Paris, Harmattan, 2011.
• (Ed.), Ab¨¦c¨¦daire de Martin Heidegger, Paris/Mons, Vrin/Sils Maria, 2008.
• (Ed.), Gilles Deleuze y su herencia filosofica, Buenos Aires, Grupal Logistica Y Distribucion, 2007.
• (?Eds? with D. Gabbard), Michel Foucault and Power Today. International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of Our Present, Lanham/Oxford, Lexington Books, 2006.
• (Ed.) Michel Foucault et le contr?le social, Qu¨¦bec, Presses de l'Universit¨¦ Laval, 2005 (2nd edition: 2008).
• ?(Ed.) ?Gilles Deleuze. H¨¦ritage philosophique, Paris, PUF, Collection ?D¨¦bats philosophiques?, 2005.

• Gilles Deleuze et la ph¨¦nom¨¦nologie, Paris/Mons, Vrin/Sils Maria, 2004 (2nd edition: 2006).

On-line Publications

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• ?Quatre Novembre. Retour sur la mort de Gilles Deleuze? (with Douglas Ord, unpublished)
• ??, Journal Philosophy and Cosmology, Vol. 16, 2016, p. 1-13.
• , Interview with Michel Foucault (conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton in April 1978), Foucault Studies, No. 14, Fall 2012, p. 98-114.
• , Revista de Cultura ?, Argentine, 2012 (in Spanish)
• Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, 2011, p. 69-88.
• , Foucault Studies, No. 10, Nov. 2010, p. 144-154.
• ?Les Archives Foucault ¨¤ Berkeley?, Portail Michel Foucault/Institut M¨¦moires de l'¨¦dition contemporaine (juillet 2010; weblink broken)
• , Symposium, Vol. 12, No. 2 ,? 2008, p. 6-9.
• ?Michel Foucault et les sciences sociales en Am¨¦rique?, Monde commun, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007, p. 130-149. (weblink broken)
• , Laval th¨¦ologique et philosophique, Vol. 60, No. 2, juin 2004, p. 301-316.
• , AE-Revue canadienne d'esth¨¦tique, Vol. 9, 2004.
• , Cin¨¦mas. Revue d'¨¦tudes cin¨¦matographiques, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2003, p. 173-190.

• , Revue philosophique de Louvain, 4, 2003, p. 640-657.

• , Actuel Marx, PUF, No. 34, 2003, p. 161-174.
• Revue internationale de philosophie, No. 222, fasc. 4, 2002, p. 511-522.

For the complete list of publications, see Academia webpage:

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