from Tuesday's NEW YORK TIMES, C17: "Gilles Deleuze, 70, French Professor and Author" "Gilles Deleuze, a philosopher and university lecturer whose prolific writings on art, literature, and human thought influenced French intellectuals, died... "Family members said he jumped from his apartment window to end a worsening chronic respiratory illness for which he had recently undergone a tracheotomy... "After the student uprising in 1968, Mr. Deleuze became a popular and influential lecturer at Vincennes, where students flocked to hear him speak. Revolution, he believed, is an inherently creative act against the repressiveness of the state, and he coined a word, 'nomadism,' to describe it. 'Deterritorialization' was another word he used to describe the phenomenon by which the individual identity frees itself from external attempts at categorization. His speaking style was described as flowing and complex as the thought it expressed was intoxicating to his French listeners..." ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]