Art as abstract machine : ontology and aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari
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Art as abstract machine : ontology and aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari
（Studies in philosophy）（A Routledge series）
Routledge, 2015, c2005
- : pbk
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Originally published: 2005
"First issued in paperback 2015" -- t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by art. Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art is means understanding how it works, what it does, how it becomes, and finally, how it lives. This book illuminates these philosophers' discussion of ontology from the viewpoint of art-and vice versa-in a thorough questioning of aesthetic criteria as they are normally understood.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Art as Abstract Machine
- 1: The Artist-Philosopher: Deleuze, Nietzsche, and the Critical Art of Affirmation
- 2: Spinoza: Mystical Atheism and the Art of Beatitude
- 3: We Need New Signs: Towards a Cinematic Image of Thought
- 4: A Freedom for the End of the World: Painting and Absolute Deterritorialisation
- 5: Songs of Molecules: The Chaosmosis of Sensation
- 6: The Agitations of a Convulsive Life: Painting the Flesh
- Conclusion A Break, a Becoming, and a Belief ...
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