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Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus

Henry Somers-Hall talks to Brent Adkins (author of the bestselling critical introduction and guide to A Thousand Plateaus) about his new book, Reading A Thousand Plateaus, which takes us even deeper into Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork.

May 25, 2026
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Colour drawing of a staged theatrical scene framed by two symmetrical classical structures with niches containing gilded statues, flanked by trees. At the centre, a painted backdrop shows an island within an archipelago, with a visible settlement; in the foreground, a vessel approaches the shore. Four figures stand before the backdrop holding branches and other objects. The composition is enclosed within a thin rectangular gold border.

Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France

This interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.

Edinburgh University Press
May 8, 2026

Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus

Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France

Henry Somers-Hall interviewed by Brent Adkins: Reading A Thousand Plateaus

Sudden Changes in Global Order — From Ancient to Early Modern Iran and Beyond

Structural Bias, Education Reform, and Victorian Women’s Poetry

From Multiple Possible Worlds to Fission-Fusion Experience

Repetition After Originality: Why Saying It Again Still Matters