The Deleuzian Line

'This line is simple, abstract and yet is the most complex of all, the most tortuous’

The Deleuzian line is a complex entity. Encompassing, inscribing, and undoing modes of societal and cultural control, space, and even the essence of life, Deleuze’s line(s) both express and determine the world around us and our relation to it: ‘whether we are individuals or groups, we are made of lines’, he wrote in his Dialogues. This discussion group will introduce and examine the Deleuzian molar and molecular lines and lines of flight in relation to the early modern period, probing whether such complex conceptual renderings of the line have any practical relevance or conceptual analogy in the study of the renaissance episteme and its writing, typography, science, art and architecture.