Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity / / Radek Przedpełski, S. E. Wilmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Przedpełski, Radek,; Wilmer, S. E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bal, Mieke,; Baykan, Burcu,; Genosko, Gary,; Glowczewski, Barbara,; Hayon, Adi Louria,; Holland, Eugene W.,; Marks, Laura U.,; Przedpełski, Radek,; Voss, Daniela,; Williams, James,; Wilmer, S. E.,; rzedpełski, Radek,; Žukauskaitė, Audronė,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrations 5 B/W line art

Explores the concept of multiplicity in Deleuze and Guattari’s work and its relevance to artistic practiceProvides a series of philosophical encounters with the concept of multiplicityPoints to the potentialities circulating in various media for social changeDecolonialises our thinking about art by bypassing the mediation of the traditional western-centred art historyContributors include Mieke Bal, James Williams, Laura Marks, Gary Genosko and Eugene HollandThis collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide.Including insights from digital apps to Indigenous ritual art and from feminist and queer art to refugee performances and talismanic magic associated with Islamic Neoplatonism, this collection will decolonise your thinking about art – subverting the traditional Western-centred art history.The first section includes theoretical essays on the concept of multiplicities, on affect and politics as well as the thought of Raymond Ruyer and Gilbert Simondon – 2 key influences on Deleuze and Guattari.The second section includes applied essays on specific art practices including the plastic arts, theatre, architecture, music and folk performances.Notes on ContributorsMieke Bal, cultural theorist, critic, video artist and occasional curator.Burcu Baykan, Bilkent University, Turkey.Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology in Toronto, Canada.Barbara Glowczewski, National Scientific Research Center, Collège de France, EHESS, France.Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University, USA.Adi Louria Hayon, Tel Aviv University, Israel.Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada.Radek Przedpełski, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.Daniela Voss, University of Hildesheim, Germany.James Williams, Deakin University, Australia.S. E. Wilmer, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.Audronė Žukauskaitė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuania.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Philosophical Compositions of Multiplicity -- 1 Distributed Affects and the Necessity of Expression -- 2 Multiplicity as a Life: Deleuze, Simondon, Ruyer -- 3 Modulating Matters: Simondon, Deleuze and Guattari -- 4 Multiplicities, Axiomatics, Politics -- 5 Movement, Precarity, Affect -- Part II Multiplicities across Different Artistic Media -- 6 The Magnetic Medium: David Wojnarowicz and Tape Machines -- 7 Steppe C(ha)osmotechnics: Art as Engineering of Forces in Marek Konieczny and Beyond -- 8 Body without Organs as Pure Potentiality in Patricia Piccinini’s Sculptural Installations -- 9 Refugees as Multiplicities -- 10 Guattari’s Ecosophy and Multiple Becomings in Ritual -- 11 Ripples of Serialism: Boulez, Deleuze and the San Francisco Bay Area -- 12 Talisman-Images: From the Cosmos to Your Body -- Index