Deleuze and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780748638642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Ian Buchanan; Laura Guillaume

Opis

A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the bodyUsing a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature.The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect.

Spis treści

Introduction: Pity the Meat?: Deleuze and the Body, Joe Hughes; Deleuzism; 1. Time and Autopoiesis: The Organism Has Not Future, Claire Colebrook; 2. Larval Subjects, Autonomous Systems and E. Coli Chemotaxis, John Protevi; 3. Bodies of Learning, Anna Cutler and Iain MacKenzie; 4. Believing in the World: Toward an Ethics of Form, Joe Hughes; 5. Matter as Simulacrum; Thought as Phantasm; Body as Event, Nathan Widder; Practical Deleuzism; 6. The 'Virtual' Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuman, Ella Brians; 7. 'Be(come) Yourself only Better': Self-transformation and the Materialisation of Images, Rebecca Coleman; 8. An Ethico-Aesthetics of Heroin Chic: Art, Cliché and Capitalism, Peta Malins; 9. Multi-Dimensional Modifications, Patricia MacCormack; 10. Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze's Nietzsche, Philipa Rothfield; Notes on Contributors; Index.