Writing life and love

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Notes

I would like to thank Charles Stivale for the stimulus and invitation that gave rise to this particular article, and Felicity Colman for her tireless, generous, tender, and effective editorial work on the essay..

1 See also Deleuze (1983, 19–25) and Deleuze (1992, 169–86).

2 This same point is elaborated from the two apparently very different perspectives of Catholic mysticism and American pragmatism by Thomas Merton (1993, 143–44) and John Dewey (1917, 31). Both encourage that we view “knowing” more as the event that punctuates a successful process of intelligent mixing with the world.

3 And see also, for a more extended discussion, Deleuze (1991, 21–36, 85–104).

4 See also Dewey (1980, 13–34), who makes Keats his prime exemplar of this connective stance. Also, for a view of relation as one of the defining conditions of life, see Capra (36–50, 158–59, 298–99).

5 For a broader consideration of the cultural inflections of this kind of thinking see Batchelor (37–68) and Heidegger.

6 In “Unos de tantos días en Saignon” (Cortázar 1969b, 22–27).