Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power

Eugene B. Young is Professor of Practice in Philosophy and English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA. He is the primary author and editor of The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2013).

• Introduction: How the True World Finally Became a Bad FilmPART ONE: Power and the OutsideI. Power and the (In)Visible: Foucault and DeleuzeII: From Menace to Passion in Blanchot & Deleuze: ‘The Sovereignty of the Void’ & Experience of the ImaginaryIII. Dreams: The Eclipse of the Day & its Incessant Return PART TWO: Art, Literature, & IdeasIV. The Conceptual Composition of the Work of Art: Chaos & the OutsideV. Literature’s Radical Reversal: from Absence of Origin to Deterritorialized FutureVI. Kafka’s Castle: A Case Study—Conceptual Inexistence & Obscure ValuePART THREE: CinemaVII. Cinematic Worlds of Truth and Reality: Deleuze’s Movement Image via FoucaultVIII. Radical Reversals of Cinematic Art: The Dissociative Force of Blanchot’s Outside in Deleuze’s Time-ImageIX. “Is Anyone Seeing This?” Conclusion: Artistic Fiction and the Thought of Eternal Return

Young uses the work of Deleuze and Blanchot to offer a new theory of literature and cinema, one that removes us from the political snares of our current situation to an outside that is not just another trap. His book is a deep read and an original contribution.