Laura Guillaume / Joe Hughes (Hrsg.)

Deleuze and the Body

Herausgeber: Guillaume, Laura; Hughes, Joe

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Produktbeschreibung

AUTHOR APPROVED A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body Deleuze and the Body puts the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to work in thinking through the body. It traces the multiple lines of thought and affect that inhabit the ideas and attitudes of the body, and it analyzes how certain relationships to power, creativity, and to affectivity form the body. Contributors draw on a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical modes of enquiry to produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, offering a fresh look at art, movement, and literature. Key features * Brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body * Of interest to those concerned with theories of the body and affectivity, and those interested in performance arts, film and contemporary culture * Contributors include Ella Brians, Claire Colebrook, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Cutler, Patricia MacCormack, Iain MacKenzie, John Protevi, Peta Malins, Philipa Rothfield and Nathan Widder Laura Guillaume holds a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University and Joe Hughes is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Minnesota.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780748638642
• ISBN-10: 0748638644
• Artikelnr.: 26816664

Autorenporträt

Laura Guillaume is a PhD student in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Joe Hughes is a lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Reader's Guide and Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pity the Meat?: Deleuze and the Body, Joe Hughes
Deleuzism
1. Time and Autopoiesis: The Organism Has Not Future, Claire Colebrook
2. Larval Subjects, Autonomous Systems and E. Coli Chemotaxis, John Protevi
3. Bodies of Learning, Anna Cutler and Iain MacKenzie
4. Believing in the World: Toward an Ethics of Form, Joe Hughes
5. Matter as Simulacrum
Thought as Phantasm
Body as Event, Nathan Widder
Practical Deleuzism
6. The 'Virtual' Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuman, Ella Brians
7. 'Be(come) Yourself only Better': Self-transformation and the Materialisation of Images, Rebecca Coleman
8. An Ethico-Aesthetics of Heroin Chic: Art, Cliché and Capitalism, Peta Malins
9. Multi-Dimensional Modifications, Patricia MacCormack
10. Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze's Nietzsche, Philipa Rothfield
Notes on Contributors
Index.