Deleuze and Contemporary Art

by Zepke, Stephen; O'Sullivan, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780748638383
• ISBN10: 0748638385
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-27
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

What is at stake for contemporary art in the take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? What are the limits and possibilities of this take up? To address these questions, this book presents a series of inflections that explore the connection between these two fields. The topics studied range from the political and the expanded 'aesthetic paradigm' of art practice today, to specific scenes and encounters and the question of technology in relation to art. These essays have been written by philosophers and artists working at the cutting edge of this new area, including writers from outside the Anglo-American tradition. The contributors include Gustavo Chirolla Ospina, Suely Rolnik, Gerald Raunig, Eric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Jussi Parikka, Johnny Golding, David Burrows, Robert Garnett, Edgar Schmitz, Claudia Mongini, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Barbara Bolt, Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl.

Author Biography

Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher. Simon O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. They co-edited Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Introduction: Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art	p. 1
Politics	p. 13
The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody	p. 15
A Shift Towards the Unnameable	p. 34
The Heterogenesis of Fleeing	p. 43
Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique	p. 63
The Aesthetic Paradigm	p. 83
Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus: Of Relational Aesthetics	p. 85
The Practice and Anti-Dialectical Thought of an 'Anartist'	p. 100
Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?	p. 116
Fractal Philosophy (And the Small Matter of Learning How to Listen): Attunement as the Task of Art	p. 133
Scenes and Encounters	p. 155
An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: The Logic of Scenes	p. 157
Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction	p. 176
From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari and Contemporary Art Practice	p. 189
Traps Against Capture	p. 208
Technologies	p. 225
Sign and Information: On Anestis Logothetis' Graphical Notations	p. 227
Anti-Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy	p. 246
Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition	p. 266
Bloodcrystalpollenstar	p. 286
Notes on Contributors	p. 310
Index	p. 317
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Excerpts

Leading figures in the Deleuzean philosophy of art criticism field contribute chapters that explore the extensive writings on art, art history, and aesthetics in the realm of contemporary art, of Deleuze and Guattari.