Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity

Radek Przedpelski is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin. S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus of Drama at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Performing Statelessness in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2002); The Dynamic World of Finnish Theatre (Like Press, 2006). His edited and co-edited books include Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2010); Deleuze and Beckett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies (Routledge 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionRadek Przedpełski and S. E. WilmerPart 1: Philosophical Compositions of Multiplicity1. Distributed Affects and the Necessity of ExpressionJames Williams 2. Multiplicity as a Life: Deleuze, Simondon, Ruyer, Audronė Žukauskaitė3. Modulating Matters: Simondon, Deleuze and GuattariDaniela Voss4. Multiplicities, Axiomatics, PoliticsEugene Holland5. Movement, Precarity, AffectMieke Bal Part 2: Multiplicities Across Different Artistic Media 6. The Magnetic Medium: David Wojnarowicz and Tape MachinesGary Genosko 7. Steppe Cosmotechnics: Art as Engineering of Forces in Marek Konieczny and BeyondRadek Przedpełski 8. Body without Organs as Pure Potentiality in Patricia Piccinini’s Sculptural InstallationsBurcu Baykan 9. Refugees as MultiplicitiesS. E. Wilmer10. Guattari's Ecosophy and Multiple Becomings in RitualBarbara Glowczewski11. Ripples of Serialism: Boulez, Deleuze and the San Francisco Bay AreaAdi Louria Hayon 12. Talisman-images: from the Cosmos to Your BodyLaura Marks Index.

Przedpełski and Wilmer have brought together a remarkably wide-ranging collection of essays by top-notch scholars that explore both the philosophical trajectory of Deleuze’s concept of multiplicity as well as its ramifications in domains such as art and politics The volume will become a standard reference work for anyone interested in the complexities and implications of Deleuze’s philosophical concepts.