Deleuze and the Animal / edited by Colin Gardner and Patricia MacCormack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Colin, Author.

Contributor:

Gardner, Colin, editor.

MacCormack, Patricia, editor.

Series:

Deleuze connections.

Deleuze Connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Animals (Philosophy).

Human beings--Animal nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

These 16 essays apply Deleuze's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I UNDOING ANTHROPOCENTRISM: BECOMING-ANIMAL AND THE NONHUMAN

Chapter 1 Ahuman Abolition

Chapter 2 Brutal Thoughts: Laruelle and Deleuze on Human Animal Stupidity

Chapter 3 The Oedipal Animal? Companion Species and Becoming

PART II VECTORS OF BECOMING IMPERCEPTIBLE: THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE PACK

Chapter 4 Louis Malle’s Kleistian War Machine: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Imperceptible in Black Moon (1975)

Chapter 5 Ant and Empire: Myrmetic Writing, Simulation and the Problem of Reciprocal Becomings

Chapter 6 Music-Becoming-Animal in Works by Grisey, Aperghis and Levinas

Chapter 7 Un/Becoming Claude Cahun: Zigzagging in a Pack

PART III ANIMAL POLITICS, ANIMAL DEATHS: TRANSVERSAL CONNECTIVITIES AND THE CREATION OF AN ETHICOAESTHETIC PARADIGM

Chapter 8 Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari Through Metamodelisation: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us About Animal Politics

Chapter 9 Becoming-shewolf and the Ethics of Solidarity in Once Upon a Time: Feminist and Posthumanist Re-assembling of Little Red Riding Hood

Chapter 10 Hannibal aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres

Chapter 11 Mister V and the Unmournable Animal Death

PART IV ANIMAL RE-TERRITORIALISATIONS IN ART AND CINEMA

Chapter 12 Meditation on the Animal and the Work of Art

Chapter 13 Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative

Chapter 14 Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable and Godard’s Adieu au langage

PART V TRANSVERSE ANIMALITIES: ECOSOPHICAL BECOMINGS

Chapter 15 Drinking Animals: Sobriety, Intoxication and Interspecies Assemblages

Chapter 16 Becoming-Wolf: From Wolf-Man to the Tree Huggers of Turkey

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3495-9

1-4744-2275-6

1-4744-2276-4