This Deleuzian Century ― Art, Activism, Life

Based on Deleuze's idea that philosophy is an activity that appeals to anyone who is attuned to the desire for the ethical life, the contributions in this book question how to live the ethical life today in academia, in art but above all in our multiple ecologies of belonging.

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. In 2005–2006, she was the Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professorship in the Law School of Birckbeck College, University of London. In 2001–2003, she held the Jean Monnet Visiting Chair at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European Institute in Florence. In 1994-1995 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Rick Dolphijn is a teacher and researcher at Utrecht University, and a Senior fellow at the Centre for the Humanities at the same university. Before he was teaching at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and had a postdoctoral position at the Internation Institute for Asian Studies. He published two books, beingFoodscapes, Towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (Eburon/University of Chicago Press 2004) and (with Iris van der Tuin)New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (Open Humanities Press 2012). His academic work has appeared in journals likeAngelaki, Continental Philosophy Review (with Iris van der Tuin), Collapse and Deleuze Studies. He is a 2014-2015 fellow of the Descartes Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (Utrecht University).