Incorporeal Matters

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, PA. She is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Identity and Diversity at North-West University, South Africa. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh UP 2015), co-editor of Deleuze and Cosmology: Between Art, Philosophy and the Sciences (Edinburgh UP 2026), co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben (Bloomsbury UP 2020) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Edinburgh Press 2019). She is currently working on a project on love, death and the fragility of relations.

• AcknowledgmentsIllustrationsIntroduction: Deleuze, New Materialism, Feminism, and Their Problematic IdeasPart I: Implications of New Materialism for Ontology, Ethics, and AgencyChapter 1: Cartographies upon CartographiesFirst Cartography: Against the Linguistic Turn, The Body Strikes BackSecond Cartography: A Transatlantic DivideThird Cartography: Figures of the PosthumanChapter 2: Return to the Real - Ontological CommitmentsOntological FigurationsRelations, Processes and Materialisations of Meaning​​​​​​​A Constitutive BlindnessChapter 3: Messy Materialism - Deleuze’s Lineage?​​​​​​​From Deleuze with Love​​​​​​Of One or Many Deleuzes​​​​​​​Vitalism, Of Matter or MenPart II: What’s Deleuze Got to Do with It? Resources for A New IdealismChapter 4: Who’s Afraid of Incorporeality?​​​​​​​Is Deleuze a Materialist, New or Otherwise?​​​​​​Critique of a New Materialist Explanation of Meaning​​​​​​​Building a New Idealism: Genetic Ideas, Strange Agencies and ContemplationsChapter 5: Revelations and Revolutions of Immanence​​​​​​​Mattering of Meaning; Meaning Mattering​​​​​​​Evolution of Immanence​​​​​​​Making Space for Value DeterminationsPart III. Diagramming a New Image of Thought Chapter 6: Following the Flows - Abstract Machines, Agency, and Artisanry​​​​​​​Incorporeal Transformations: Abstract Machines and Diagrammaticism​​​​​​​Divination and Following the Lines​​​​​​​Diagrammatic Thinking: Thought without Image​​​​​​​Back to the Earth: Geophilosophy, Stratification, and MetallurgyChapter 7: Thought’s Expression - The Imperceptible, the Infinite, and the Affective​​​​​​Cosmic Breakaway: Elemental, the Imperceptible, and the Infinite​​​​​​Affective Bridge: Matter and Form of Expression​​​​​​To Sketch a Diagram: Drawing the Strata of a New Image of Thought​​​​​​The Cosmic Artisan: Style of Thought, Manner of BeingChapter 8: Diagram of a Deleuzian Feminist​​​​​​Images of Diagrammatic Thought​​​​​​Lessons from the Diagram, thinking-being-feeling​​​​​​Concluding Sketches of a Feminist FrameworkBibliography Index