Transcendental Priority and Deleuzian Normativity. A reply to James Williams

I am grateful that someone whose work I greatly admire could be the philosopher to so eloquently and succinctly cut to the heart of the problem that I posed in the previous issue of Deleuze Studies. James Williams' critical reply leaves me, prima facie, confronted by a stark alternative: either I have misunderstood Deleuze, or I have illustrated problems and lacunae in Deleuze. I will suggest, however, that this is a false alternative, and that Williams' and my divergent accounts of The Logic of Sense – and even Deleuze's oeuvre as a whole – is better understood as a situation of ‘both/and’ rather than ‘either/or’, and hence that my interpretation of Deleuze isn't wrong, but necessarily iconoclastic.

Interview with James Kaiulo

James Kaiulo is a Papua New Guinean who studied at Macquarie University in 1985-1990. He studied on an Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) Scholarship and completed a PhD in Biological Sciences. The interview was conducted in English on 12 February 2015 by Dr. Jonathan Ritchie of Deakin University. This set comprises: an interview recording, and a timed summary.