In his principal doctoral thesis, Gilles Deleuze wrote: “Philosophy […] must be wary of turning into the discourse of beautiful souls. But the name of Marx suffices to save it from this danger.” Difference and Repetition (1968, Eng. trans. 1994) At this moment in history, as the end of the first quarter-century of the new […]

The following is a hasty transcription of a short (4:40) speech I gave this morning as an icebreaker to my Elementary Statistics class. The speech was inspired by, and is intended as a continuation of, discussions held at Perimeter College Faculty Development Day, 2022. Transcript