Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

ISBN-13: 9780415971553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 320 str.

Stephen Zepke

Opis

Zepke aims to understand what Deleuze & Guattari mean by 'art', arguing that in their account art is an ontological term & an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. This book offers a thorough questioning of aesthetic criteria as they are normally understood.

Spis treści

Introduction Art as Abstract Machine; 1: The Artist-Philosopher: Deleuze, Nietzsche, and the Critical Art of Affirmation; 2: Spinoza: Mystical Atheism and the Art of Beatitude; 3: We Need New Signs: Towards a Cinematic Image of Thought; 4: A Freedom for the End of the World: Painting and Absolute Deterritorialisation; 5: Songs of Molecules: The Chaosmosis of Sensation; 6: The Agitations of a Convulsive Life: Painting the Flesh; Conclusion A Break, a Becoming, and a Belief ...

O autorze

Stephen Zepke received his PhD in Philosophy from Sydney University.