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What Can a Body Do? (First Year Read, 2024)

A guide to the First Year Reading Program selection for 2024: What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World, by Sara Hendren.

Introduction

Further Reading

Spinoza & Deleuze

What are you capable of? What can a body do if he doesn’t mean just any body whatsoever? Spinoza explains quite well one specific body or another; what can a specific body do? What can you do, you, in your body? What can you do?
(Deleuze, 1980)

DELEUZE ON SPINOZA

Gilles Deleuze: Spinoza: The Velocities of Thought, lecture #3 (1980)
"'Spinoza: The Velocities of Thought' was a 15-lecture seminar given from December 1980 to March 1981. In this seminar, Deleuze revisits his examination of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy."