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Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995) whose collaborative work with Félix Guattari and solo writings on difference, cinema, and power produced one of the twentieth century's most ambitious philosophical projects — and whose three-page 1990 Postscript mapped the architecture of AI-age power before the internet existed.
Gilles Deleuze was born in Paris on January 18, 1925, and died there on November 4, 1995. His philosophical career spanned four decades and produced works whose influence extends across philosophy, literary theory, film studies, political theory, and most recently, critical theory of digital technology. His early monographs on Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, and Spinoza established him as a radical reader of the philosophical canon. His collaborations with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari — Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) — produced a body of work that continues to be read, contested, and extended. His solo works include Difference and Repetition (1968), The Logic of Sense (1969), and a two-volume study of cinema. His final phase of work culminated in the three-page essay Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990), which has become one of the most cited texts in contemporary critical theory.
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