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Gilles Deleuze on Beckett's Exhaustion

The next meeting for the Quilting Points Reading Group will be in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 on Tuesday the 15th of November. The text under discussion will be Gilles Deleuze's essay on Samuel Beckett, "The Exhausted" [l'Epuise]. Dr. Ruth Kitchen (Leeds) will give a short introduction to Deleuze's work and its relation to Samuel Beckett's writing, which will be followed by a general discussion of the essay as both theory and commentary. Some wine will be served and people are welcome to bring their own. For a pdf copy of the essay (in English and/or French) or for general comments or expressions of interest (in introducing a thinker or presenting at our seminar series), please contact us: quiltingpoints@gmail.com

Deleuze and Guattari's "Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature" Wednesday 2nd February

Quilting Points , or The reading group formerly known as the School of English Theory Reading Group, will be meeting at 5.15 on Wednesday the 2nd of February in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at the University of Leeds. The text under discussion is Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature , with particular emphasis to the question posed by Chapter 3: What is a Minor Literature? All are welcome, and people are encouraged to bring something potable.