Jakub Zdebik teaches at the University of Ottawa, Canada.He received his PhD from The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at The University of Western Ontario.

• Preface \ Introduction: What is a Diagram? \ 1. Constraintand System as Vegetation: Diagram and Visual Organization \ 2. Black Line WhiteSurface \ 3. Gilles Deleuze's Diagram (Complicated by a Comparison to ImmanuelKant's Schema) \ 4. The Extraordinary Contraction \ 5. Skin, Aesthetics,Incarnation: Deleuze's Diagram of Francis Bacon—An Epilogue \ Notes \ 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.'