Colleagues and researchers of the League of Engaged Frontier Theory and Praxis participated in The 11th International Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia Conference, held at Kyung Hee University Global Campus under the general orientation“From Geopolitics to Planetary Politics” and the conference theme “Machinic Earth: Geophilosophy, Ecosophy, and Planetary Care”.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Professor Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, the Organising Committee, Kyung Hee University, the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, the panel chairs, and all colleagues who attended, chaired, moderated, listened, and contributed to the discussions during the conference.
We are especially grateful to the conference administrative staff and student assistants at Kyung Hee University, whose careful work made the event possible at every level of its practical organisation. The intellectual life of a conference depends not only on papers, panels, and formal discussions but also on the often less visible labour of coordination, assistance, hospitality, and care. In this regard, we would like to offer particular thanks to Hyunjoong Kim, Cheoljoo Lee, Eunji Cho, and Chaerin Park. We are especially grateful to Chaerin Park, who kindly assisted us in coordinating the presentation arrangements for our colleagues in the panel. We are also grateful to Hyunjoong Kim for his correspondence and assistance from the early stage of abstract submission.
The conference offered an important intellectual occasion for thinking with Deleuze and Guattari from the situated terrains of Asia: across ecological crisis, technocapitalist transformation, planetary care, geophilosophy, ecosophy, and the changing conditions of political and theoretical praxis. Its movement from geopolitics to planetary politics provided a powerful horizon for reconsidering how philosophical concepts may be displaced, reoriented, and transformed through contemporary struggles, institutions, technologies, and forms of life.
The conference was also significant for the new collegial relations and sustained conversations it opened. Across formal sessions, questions, informal discussions, and exchanges during the three days, our colleagues were able to speak extensively with keynote speakers, panel chairs, and participants from different institutions and regions. These conversations were marked by intellectual seriousness, generosity, hospitality, and mutual respect. They also gave concrete form to one of the most valuable aspects of an international conference: the emergence of future conversations, possible collaborations, and shared scholarly attention beyond the immediate limits of the programme.
Across the three days of the conference, our colleagues presented and supported a coordinated group of papers concerned with Deleuze and Guattari, Spinoza, force, woman, body, architecture, machinic life, consumption, technology, and the philosophical conditions of contemporary theoretical praxis. These presentations reflected our continuing commitment to critical theory, continental philosophy, Marxism, phenomenology, political theology, and the public work of scholarly exchange.
The following papers were included in the conference programme and presented with the participation or support of the League of Engaged Frontier Theory and Praxis:
Gu Shiyi
“Deleuze and the Philosophy of Woman: On the Fluidity of Woman Beyond Sexual Difference”
Yuan Yaoyao
“The Body of Spinoza upon the Plateau”
Yin He
“Force as Non-Quantitative Quantity: Geological Metaphor and Modality in the Deleuze–Spinoza Universe”
Together, these three papers formed part of Panel IV, “Spinoza, Force, and the Plane of Immanence.” The panel was chaired and moderated by Gu Shiyi, who also assisted in coordinating the hybrid presentations and the use of slides during the session.
The League of Engaged Frontier Theory and Praxis also supported the following presentations during the conference:
Ye Li
“Deleuze and Guattari within Architectural Philosophy: From Archive to Earth”
Presented in Panel V.
Lee D. Shaun
“The Machinage of the Age of Consumption: How the Machine Is and Ought Not to Be Priced”
Presented in Panel XI.
Taken together, these papers did not appear as isolated individual interventions, but as a shared research sequence. From woman and the body to force and measure, from architecture and archive to machinic consumption, technology, and planetary care, they sought to think the movement of concept, body, machine, earth, and praxis within the broader problematic opened by the conference.
For the League of Engaged Frontier Theory and Praxis, this conference marked an important moment in our public institutional work. It allowed our colleagues to participate in an international academic setting as part of an ongoing academic community committed to theoretical intervention across languages, disciplines, and institutional borders.
We are grateful to the many participants whose questions, responses, and conversations gave the conference its atmosphere of serious, generous, and respectful exchange.
Again, we sincerely appreciate Professor Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, the Organising Committee, the administrative staff, the student assistants, the panel chairs, keynote speakers, and all colleagues whose work and presence made this conference possible.
We look forward to continuing these exchanges with scholars, institutions, and research communities in Asia and beyond.
Issued by
LEFT-P Cadre Team of Administration
On behalf of the League and the colleagues who participated in the conference
League of Engaged Frontier Theory and Praxis
