Art disarming philosophy : non-philosophy and aesthetics / edited by Steven Shakespeare, Niamh Malone and Gary Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shakespeare, Steven, 1968- editor.

Series:

Performance Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and philosophy.

Laruelle, François.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

This collection brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major new essay by Laruelle himself. Together they use non-philosophy to cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Non-philosophy and Performance

Chapter Summaries

Notes

Chapter 1: Art Saved or Destroyed by Its Works

Aesthetics Within the Limits of the Quantum: From the Meta-artist to the Non-artist

Marx with Planck (the Quantum of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics)

SuperIMposition or the Non-aesthetic Cloud: The Distribution of Contemporary Art as Data of the Art 'cloud'

'Putting to work' (Non-locality, Non-separability and Non-commutativity of the Ontological Variables of the Work): The (Limited) Onto-logical Indetermination of Art

The Subtractive/Additive Balance of Art as Complex (and Its Resolution by Superimposition?)

The Quantum of Contemporary Art as Principle of Least Reflection or Minimal Reflection of the World, or Principle of Least Mimesis

Art as Collision or Fixed Decoherence

An Aesthetic of Complementarity

The Quantum Night and the Birth of Light

Chapter 2: Out of the Ordinary: On Laruelle and the Mystic Performances of Mina Bergson

Opening Part and Whole

Hyper-Ritual

Gnostics, Spooks, and Hollywood Spiritualism

Concluding Part

Bibliography

Chapter 3: Performing Nonhuman Language: 'Humaneity' in Ron Athey's Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing

The Transcendental Computer: Towards an Artificial Philosophy

Turing and AI: Linguistic Imitation as a Criterion for Thinking

Athey and Automatic Writing: Depersonalizing Autobiography

Conclusion: Performing the Transcendental Computer

Chapter 4: Art and Philosophy: New Solidarities

New Solidarities between Art and Philosophy: A Brief Introduction

1. Axioms of Separation

2. Objects: A Consolidated Presentation of Thought (Alice and Anne-Françoise Together).

3. When Undulation Disarms Immanence: The Role of Operators

4. The Question on Non-Art, the Role of the Operators

5. Generative Indeterminacy

Glossary - Alice Lucy Rekab and Anne-Françoise Schmid

Chapter 5: Done Dying: Thinking alongside Every House Has a Door

Prologue: Begin from Bewilderment

Part 1: Thinking alongside Every house has a door

Interlude

Part 2: Techniques of Not-Knowing

Part 3: Extinction Is Missing

Part 4: The Last Humanity

Part 5: A Fractal Choreography

Part 6: How It Ends [The house of philosophy is in ruins]

Chapter 6: Beyond Judgement: Non-philosophy and Arts Intervention for People Living with Dementia

What Is Dementia?

Identity and Memory

Forgotten Futures and the City - An Arts Intervention Project for People Living with Dementia in Liverpool (Case Study).

Chapter 7: Towards a New Genealogy of Performance Philosophy: Georges Bataille, General Economy, and Quantum-Mechanical Complementarity

Complementarity, a Possibly Apocryphal Story

Complementarity, Little Bundles

Complementarity, a New Constant of Nature

Complementarity, the Right Spiral Hole

Complementarity, Through the Flight of Every Object from Me

Complementarity, the Return of Mobile, Fragmentary, Unknowable Reality

Complementarity, from Love to Light Waves

Complementarity, This Impossible . . .

Chapter 8: Non-art and Other Non-philosophical Relations: An Essay on Fugitive Plasticity

Creative Assembly

Wonder Touch

Lived Thought

Walking as a Way of Wondering

In coda

Chapter 9: Laruelle Prefers Heresy to Revolution: From Non -philosophy to Live Art

Laruelle and Reverend Billy on Heresy and Revolution

Notes.

Chapter 10: The Generative Tone: Musical Disruptions of Philosophy's Tissue

Introduction: Musical Organization or Tissue

Structure

Instructions for Reading/Listening/Reverberating

Soundtrack Part One: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame

Music and Doubling of the Real

Soundtrack Part Two: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame

Speculative Sounds

Soundtrack Part Three: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame

The Geometry of a Ghost

Soundtrack Part Four: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame

Conclusion

Soundtrack Part Five: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5381-4747-5

OCLC:

1264469039