This Deleuzian century : art, activism, life / edited by Rosi Braidotti, Rick Dolphijn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braidotti, Rosi, editor.

Dolphijn, Rick, editor.

Series:

Faux titre ; Volume 400.

Faux Titre, 0167-9392 ; Volume 400

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) philosophy is not for the privileged few or the specialized ones: it is an activity that appeals to anyone who is attuned to the desire for the ethical life. Inspired by Spinoza’s concepts of desire and freedom, Deleuze’s ethical life is a life that aims at experimenting with sustainable ways of coping with the earth, with society, with the long term struggles and contemporary crisis that matter to us all. An ethical life defines thinking as the invention/intervention of new concepts and takes the risk of working with them in the real world. This book has been written in this spirit of free explorations of intensities. It explores the entanglements between art, activism and life in the service of training us to live ethically. Contrary to morality, which is the implementation of socially accepted rules and regulations, ethics requires an analysis of the power relations that structure our interaction as relational subjects, in order to enable us to deal with them. The original contributions presented in this volume aim to set these ideas to work in contemporary practices, exploring the ways in which Deleuze’s thought continues to be relevant at the start of the 21st century. As a product of the “Deleuze Circle”, an open collaboration between academics situated in the Low Countries started in 2008, the chapters in this book contribute to our ongoing conversations on how to live the ethical life today in academia, in art but above all in our multiple ecologies of belonging.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors This Deleuzian Century

Deleuze’s Philosophy and the Art of Life Or: What does Pussy Riot Know? / Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn

Fashioning the Fold: Multiple Becomings / Anneke Smelik

Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalization / Andrej Radman

Populism and Grandeur: From Marx to Arafat / Sjoerd van Tuinen

The Healing Practices of Language: Artaud and Deleuze on Flesh, Mind and Expression / Joeri Visser

Humile Art: Enhancing the Body’s Powers to Act – or Bringing Art (back) Down to Earth / Frans-Willem Korsten

Materiality of Affect: How Art can Reveal the more Subtle Realities of an Encounter / Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko

The Revelation of a World that was Always Already There: The Creative Act as an Occupation / Rick Dolphijn

The Ethico-Aesthetics of the Figure / Jay Hetrick

Thinking ‘a Life’: Nomadism as a Challenge for (Post-)Genomics / Tom Idema

Mesopolitical Interests: Rotterdam Skillcity as Rhizomatic, Ecosophical, Reflactive Event / Henk Oosterling

Contributors / Editor This Deleuzian Century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2015).

ISBN:

94-012-1198-1

OCLC:

905843138

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211987 DOI