Elizabeth Grosz  

"In recent years, Elizabeth Grosz has reinvestigated Irigaray’s theory to formulate a new phenomenological view on the body. Grosz rejects the Platonic idea that the body is a brute, or passive entity, but sees the body itself as constitutive of systems of meaning. In Volatile Bodies, she redefines the body using post-oedipal framework of the ‘Desiring Machine.’ The body becomes a desiring machine when it de-humanizes the object of desire and dissolves into surrounding environments. The subject becomes one with the machine-like apparatus and senses its merging components as changing, segmented and discontinuous waves, flows, and intensities." --Katrien Jacobs in "Masochism, or The Cruel Mother in Maria Beatty’s Pornography".

"Deleuze is an incredibly intelligent, careful reader of exactly what he calls the wayward texts of the history of philosophy: his readings of these and other figures (Kant, Hume, Leibniz, to mention a few). Although most readers are primarily attracted to his later and collaborative works with Guattari, it was his earlier works and particularly his reading of those three philosophers that drew me to him. What he managed to do at one and the same time was to show the intent and systematicity of these various philosophies, the fact that each of them created a nugget of a system that was a machine that worked perfectly coherently, and yet each of them had something in that machine that veered off from the very tradition that it initiated. Although I was very attracted to Deleuze’s writings, it took me a very long time–over twenty years–to feel more confident with reading him: it involved sorting out the systematicity of his work from its waywardness, and thinking the wayward as the productive rather than decaying element. What Deleuze showed is that there were other philosophical methodologies than what had prevailed in the mainstream texts and emanated from Cartesianism." --"Interview With Elizabeth Grosz" (2001) by Robert Ausch, Randal Doane and Laura Perez.