Drawing Analogies

David Burrows is an artist, writer and Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK. He has published and exhibited widely and is a member of the London-based art and performance collective producing the collaboration Plastique Fantastique. John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher. He is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, course leader for BA Fine Art and BA Fine Art with Psychology and director of studies for practice-led PhD projects in Fine Art at the University of Worcester, UK. Dean Kenning is an artist and writer based in London. He is Research Fellow in the department of Fine Art and PhD supervisor at Kingston University, UK. He also teaches Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK and is the 2020-21 winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Prize.Mary Yacoob is an artist based in London, UK. She is Assistant Lecturer in Fine Art at London Metropolitan University, UK. She exhibits widely and was the recipient of an Arts Council England award for Schema (2020), an exhibition and publication.

• List of FiguresIntroductionPart 1: Ontologies and Epistemes1. Invisible Machines: Psychoanalytic Imaginaries and Paranoid Critical Theory2. The Diagrammatic Works of Hilma af Klint3. Cosmo-Diagrams: Beyond the Bubble4. Deleuze's Living Diagram Pt. 1: From Structural to Intensive Relations (The Biological Idea)Part 2: Diagrams in Use5. Deleuze's Living Diagram Pt. 2: From Structural to Nervous Analogy (Francis Bacon)6. Intersections Between Art, Diagrams, Time and Technology7. This is Not a Diagram: Applying General Semantics to Contemporary Arts Pedagogy8. Auraltechnics: Towards Audio DiagramsConclusionBibliographyIndex: NamesIndex: Concepts

Drawing together interdisciplinary ideas and collective thoughts on the aesthetics/practice of diagramming, the authors of this book make clear that diagrams are necessary, and needed more than ever, to process our contemporary experience of reality and its surface representations.