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The priority of events : Deleuze's Logic of sense
Explores how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that substances are ontologically secondary with respect to events through examining Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon.
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The Priority of Events
This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.
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Insufficient PrEParation: an assessment of primary care prescribing habits and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis in patients at risk of HIV acquisition at a single medical centre
ObjectivesTo assess HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prescribing habits by primary care providers and the number of patients at risk of HIV acquisition at a single medical centre in the Northwestern USA from 1 July 2018 to 31 June 2020.MethodsAn electronic cross-sectional survey was administered in April and May 2021 to providers in family medicine, internal medicine, adolescent and young adult health, student health and women’s health clinics affiliated with the medical centre with questions pertaining to PrEP prescribing practices. Electronic medical record abstraction was used to quantify the number of eligible patients who sought care in primary care departments and the adherence to PrEP initiation guidelines from 1 July 2018 to 31 June 2020.Results74% (61/82) of providers reported familiarity with national clinical practice guidelines for the prevention of HIV infection. 50% (41/82) of respondents were located in family medicine clinics. 57% (47/82) of providers counseled less than one-quarter of those who they identified as at risk of HIV infection. The major barriers to prescribing PrEP were insufficient time and lack of familiarity with guidelines. Of the 4330 eligible patients for PrEP, 8% (337/4330) received at least one PrEP prescription during the study period. For patients newly prescribed PrEP, only 23% (39/170) had appropriate counseling and labs at initiation. The top three qualifying indications for PrEP were identifying as transgender (36%, n=1562), high-risk sexual behaviour (32%, n=1405) and injection drug use (30%, n=1289).ConclusionsThis study highlights intervention points in the HIV prevention cascade warranting attention in order to achieve the 2025 Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. target for PrEP coverage. These include increasing provider adherence to prescribing guidelines and reducing the logistical barriers to prescribing.
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Normativity and Expressive Agency in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze
This article synthesizes several different studies of Hegel's and Nietzsche's expressive conceptions of action and agency and identifies a related account in Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It argues that such conceptions not only challenge familiar voluntarist accounts of action and agency; they also demand a reassessment of standard approaches to the relation between norms and action. For the voluntarist, an agent's action is caused by the separate, prior intention of the agent. For expressivists, an agent's intention is inseparable from the action expressing it and nonisolatable from the expression of this intention-action in interpretative activity. For the voluntarist, the norms governing action can be thought of as more or less freestanding, entering into the prior formation of the agent's intention. For the expressivist, the norm or principle on which an agent acts will be produced over time, through the unfolding of the action expressing it, as well as through interpretative struggle over the meaning of that action, all of which takes place in a social space governed by more basic norms concerning the offering of act-descriptions, recognition, and social and hermeneutical struggle. A number of important differences among Hegel's, Nietzsche's, and Deleuze's accounts are identified, and their significance is explored.
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Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's 'Logic of Sense'. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.
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Deleuze's Neo-Leibnizianism, Events and The Logic of Sense's 'Static Ontological Genesis'
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The Logic of Sense
, Deleuze effectively argues that two types of relation between events govern their 'evental' or 'ideal play', and ultimately underlie determined substances, that is, worldly individuals and persons. Leibniz calls these relations 'compossibility' and 'incompossibility'. Deleuze calls them 'convergence' and 'divergence'. This paper explores how Deleuze appropriates and extends a number of Leibnizian concepts in order to ground the idea that events have ontological priority over substances 'all the way down'.
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Max Roach and M'Boom: Diasporic Soundings in American Percussion Music
Max Roach founded M’Boom as a New York City based musical collective in 1970 with an open-ended idea to explore the full range of sound offered by percussion instruments. Additionally, like many of Roach’s musical projects, the ensemble was also conceived as a social and political project. This dissertation explores the aesthetics, politics and broader theoretical and historical contexts surrounding and leading to the percussion ensemble M’Boom. In 2015 I began compiling source materials on M’Boom, including press releases, record reviews, audio recordings and other documents. I conducted interviews with surviving members of the ensemble including Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, and Eli Fountain. I also helped coordinate the archiving of previously uncirculated M’Boom percussion scores at UC San Diego’s Geisel Library, and led a performance of selected compositions with an 8-piece ensemble. In this dissertation I draw from these materials, as well as from a number of more generally relevant scholarly sources.
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Structuralism – Structure and the Sense-Event
As noted in the previous chapter, Deleuze's work on the relation between language and the problem is primarily couched in a structuralist vocabulary, and no longer explicitly in terms of ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’. However, as we shall see, Deleuze's concept of structure is, to all intents and purposes, identical to that of the problem. Indeed, in Difference and Repetition – the text which formed the basis of our examination of the concept of the problem in The Logic of Sense, and published only one year before this latter – Deleuze explicitly aligns the problematic Idea and structure. He writes, for example, that the ‘Idea is thus defined as a structure. A structure or an Idea is a “complex theme”, an internal multiplicity – in other words, a system of multiple, non-localizable connections between differential elements which is incarnated in real relations and actual terms’ (DR, 183; see also DR, 191. On the rapprochement of the ‘linguistic Idea’ and structuralism in linguistics, see DR, 203–5). It will thus be the task of this chapter to elucidate Deleuze's concept of ‘structure’ in The Logic of Sense, its identity with the concept of the problem, and how it guides Deleuze's thinking about language.In this chapter, we shall also examine how some of the issues previously examined in relation to the Stoics and Leibniz can be re-described in structuralist terms. In particular, with respect to the Stoics, we shall observe how the ‘dualities’ inherent in the Stoic system (cause/effect, body/language, thing/incorporeal sense), along with the ‘infinite regress of sense’, can be dealt with in a structuralist and hence ‘problematic’ vocabulary.
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