Deleuze and Contemporary Art

Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna. He has published numerous essays on philosophy, art and cinema. He is the author of Art as Abstract Machine, Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor with Simon O'Sullivan of Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (Bloomsbury Academic, 2008). Simon O’Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmith College, London. He is the author of the monographs On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation (Palgrave, 2012) and Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2005), and is co-editor (with Henriette Gunkel and Ayesha Hameed) of Futures and Fictions (Repeater, 2017) and (with Stephen Zepke) of both Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (Continuum, 2008) and Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art: An Introduction, Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke; I - Politics; 1. The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody, Gustavo Chirolla Ospina; 2. A Shift Towards the Unnameable, Suely Rolnik; 3. The Heterogenesis of Fleeing, Gerald Raunig; 4. Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique, Stephen Zepke; II - The Aesthetic Paradigm; 5. Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus. Of Relational Aesthetics, Eric Alliez; 6. The Practice and Anti-dialectical Thought of an 'Anartist', Maurizio Lazzarato; 7. Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?, Jussi Parikka, 8. Fractal Philosophy (and the small matter of learning how to listen): Attunement as the Task of Art, Johnny Golding; III - Scenes and Encounters; 9. An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: the Logic of Scenes, David Burrows; 10. Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction, Robert Garnett; 11. From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari, and Contemporary Art Practice, Simon O'Sullivan; 12. Traps Against Capture, Edgar Schmitz; IV - Technologies; 13. Sign and Information: on Anestis Logothetis' Graphical Notations, Claudia Mongini; 14. Anti-Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy, Elisabeth von Samsonow; 15. Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition, Barbara Bolt; 16. BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR, Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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