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In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this book attempts to map out an affirmative and specifically materialist attitude to modern and contemporary art. The volume begins with the laying out of the philosophical terrain 'beyond representation' and beyond the so-called crisis of representation (deconstruction). The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorisation of art as an expanded and complex practice. The second part of the volume stages a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts and the work of artists that position their practice outside of the gallery or 'outside' representation as typically understood. Attention is also given to notions of a critical art practice and to art's political and ethical potentiality. At stake in such encounters is less the development of a Deleuzian approach to art and more an experiment in deterritorialising Deleuze by taking his concepts into other milieus and allowing these 'possible worlds' to work back on the philosophy. Book jacket.

SIMON O'SULLIVAN is Lecturer in Art History/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He has published widely in the area of aesthetics and art theory, including articles in Parallax, Angelaki and Pli. This is his first monograph.

Series Editor's Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction: Three Beginnings	p. 1
Rhizomes, Machines, Multiplicities and Maps: Notes Toward an Expanded Art Practice (Beyond Representation)	p. 9
The Ethicoaesthetics of Affect and the Bloc of Sensations: Reaffirming the Specificity of Art (Against Representation)	p. 38
Art and the Political: Minor Literature, the War Machine and the Production of Subjectivity	p. 69
From Geophilosophy to Geoaesthetics: The Virtual and the Plane of Immanence versus Mirror-Travel and the Spiral Jetty	p. 98
From Possible Worlds to Future Folds: Abstracts, Situationist Cities and the Baroque in Art	p. 121
Conclusion: Three Endings	p. 144
Notes	p. 158
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 221
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