Jakub Zdebik teaches philosophy at Carleton University, Canada. He was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University, Canada.

• Introduction: Brief Notes on a Diagram; 1. A Joyful Monotony; 2. The Distorted Chiaroscuro; 3. A Complicated Difficulty: Kant's Schema; 4. The Indiscernible Style; 5. A Portrait of the Diagram Made Flesh: The Aesthetics as Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

‘A magnificent treatment of the relation of the diagram to what Deleuze calls le devenir: For Zdebik the diagram, like the fold, is a creative function that shapes the entirety of the philosopher's writing.It is a hybrid machine, an amphibious device, an elastic mechanism in which geography and anatomy, like art and science or form and force, are of the same order.Zdebik offers a clear, compelling, indeed dazzling reading of a body of work integral to what John Bender and Michael Marrinan have astutely called the culture of diagram.Thanks to this book we can now see how and why Deleuze excels in areas that extend from philosophy to cinema, from geology to biology, from literature to topology, and from painting to poetry. The author brings us a rich, sensuous, and decisive contribution that stands high and strong in the industry of Deleuze studies.'