Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital

Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital

Author: Claire Colebrook

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1441155333

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An exploration of new aspects of Blake's work using the concept of incarnation and drawing on theories of contemporary digital media.


Architectural Technicities

Architectural Technicities

Author: Stavros Kousoulas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1000614085

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This book poses a simple question: how is this architecture possible? To respond, it will embark on a captivating journey through many singular architectural concepts. The entasis of Doric columns, Ulysses and desert islands will outline an architectural act that moves beyond representation. A ferryman who stutters will present two different types of architectural minds. A stilus and a theory of signs will reconsider the ways architects can develop a particular kind of intuition, while architectural technicities will bring forth a membranic and territorial understanding of architecture. Finally, as a melody that sings itself, a larval architecture will be introduced, bringing space and time together. Assisting this endeavour, the thought of philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Gilbert Simondon and Raymond Ruyer will meet the latest developments in fields like affect theory, cognitive sciences, environmental studies and neuroanthropology. Eventually, by the end of this book, the readers – from architecture students and researchers to academics and practitioners with an interest in theory – will have been exposed to a comprehensive and original philosophy of architecture and the built environment.


Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus'

Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus'

Author: Eugene W. Holland

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1441112308

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A Thousand Plateaus is the engaging and influential second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the remarkable collaborative project written by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. This hugely important text is a work of staggering complexity that made a major contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, yet remains distinctly challenging for readers in a number of disciplines. Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus': A Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this extremely important and yet challenging work. Written specifically to meet the needs of students coming to Deleuze and Guattari for the first time, the book offers guidance on: - Philosophical and historical context - Key themes - Reading the text - Reception and influence - Further reading


Beastly Blake

Beastly Blake

Author: Helen P. Bruder

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3319897888

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Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. ‘Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day’, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blake’s surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blake’s writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.


Contingent Computation

Contingent Computation

Author: M. Beatrice Fazi

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1786606097

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In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. It does so by advancing an original conception of computational aesthetics that does not just concern art made by or with computers, but rather the modes of being and becoming of computational processes. Contingent Computation mobilises the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead in order to address aesthetics as an ontological study of the generative potential of reality. Through a novel philosophical reading of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, Fazi finds this potential at the formal heart of computational systems, and argues that computation is a process of determining indeterminacy. This indeterminacy, which is central to computational systems, does not contradict their functionality. Instead, it drives their very operation, albeit in a manner that might not always fit with the instrumental, representational and cognitivist purposes that we have assigned to computing.


Critical and Clinical Cartographies

Critical and Clinical Cartographies

Author: Andrej Radman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1474421121

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Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurring under the umbrella of New Materialism. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape'.


Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature

Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature

Author: Ian Buchanan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 147252635X

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In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical and cultural theory, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature is a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.


Making Cultural History

Making Cultural History

Author: Anna Kallen

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9187351331

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This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media studies. Making Cultural History has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary research program focusing on interplays between past and present. The authors of this volume display a kaleidoscope of innovative approaches to traditional academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric remains, television, and historic monuments. The perspectives focus on obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centers of traditional academic knowledge and create an understanding that all narratives, representations, and claims of culture and history are in some sense political. Challenging, disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history.


Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Author: S. E. Gontarski

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1623563496

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Explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations


Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

Introducing Criticism in the 21st Century

Author: Julian Wolfreys

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0748695311

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This new and revised edition provides 14 chapters introducing new modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in the twenty-first century.