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*nausea*? That's quite a volatile body you've got there, Allen!! The feminist philosopher who features in the announcement that seems to have sparked your gut reaction has, as you may well be aware, been engaging with the work of Deleuze for more than two decades. Often quite critically. Some of us feel we owe a lot to her for this engagement - and many others. The real point here for me is not about geographers borrowing from big names in philosophy. Its about geographers actually wanting to talk back to their favourite philosophers, have them there, in the room, to converse with. No, we cant have Deleuze with us. But in Elizabeth Grosz we have someone who is, very much in her own right, a pioneer in the recent philosophy of bodies, life and materiality. And one who has had the nerve, more recently to stray into the field of earth processes... Philosopher Graham Harman recently posted on his blog that he'd never had a boring conversation with a geographer. As Ive seen him chatting with a quite a few, that seems to me to be a very generous and welcoming gesture. I'd hope geographers might be able to respond in kind. There's quite a few of us who like to see the conversation between geography and philosophy not as one of `parroting' but as a two-way exchange. Which means philosophers listening to us, as we listen to them. Isn't that precisely the point of inviting an influential philosopher along to a panel discussion at a geography gathering? And the very fact that she is willing to come and have this conversation, I would have thought, ought to be taken as something to support and celebrate. Or have I missed your point? Nigel -----Original Message----- From: NWNW [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 31 January 2012 07:24 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Deleuze and all that Am 30.01.2012 um 22:49 schrieb AJ Scott: > I greatly admire the work of Deleuze and other French philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries. But why isn't there a long overdue wave of nausea at the parroting of their ideas and gratuitous displays of references to their publications? Allen Scott Hi Allen, my talk, but there is, as some - only a few - of our colleagues got sick of this parroting more then 10 years ago and started criticizing it or shifted to a more serious field of study than 'postmodern geography', sorry, I meant 'geographies' ... best thomas -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).