New piece on Whitehead/Deleuze by my good brother Sam Mickey.
…There are two tendencies that show up in the way people juxtapose Whitehead and Deleuze. On one hand, people situate them in combinatorial contrast, bringing together their concepts in ways that are different but not opposed. Example: Deleuze and Whitehead both develop metaphysics of becoming, challenging modern prohibitions against metaphysics and overturning the foundationalism that pervades the philosophical tradition. On the other, people treat them as representatives of polar opposites, whether complementary or antagonistic…