Masculinities and Desire

Masculinities and Desire
Author: Marek Wojtaszek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429793693

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of desire. Western tradition has thought of desire from the vantage point of masculine subjectivity; what happens when the order is reversed, and desire speaks through masculinity? Can masculinity be conceived beyond the gender binary and thus affirm its potential to transcend the patriarchal order? In answer, Masculinities and Desire calls for a radically new approach to traditional cultural criticism. Contributing a critical male perspective, the book sheds new light on the conceptual and ethical limits of established, representational (gender) criticism. Reflecting on masculinity with Deleuze, the book explores what happens to the masculine subject in his becoming-minoritarian and thus emerging as a work of desire. Wojtaszek examines the confining representations of masculinity in realms long associated with men, such as violence, virulent psychosis, metaphysical cannibalism and virtualization. Inspired by Deleuze’s appeal for immanence, Wojtaszek argues that films including American Psycho, Fight Club, Becoming John Malkovich and The Matrix are adventures of deterritorialization that imaginatively tackle various masculinities, affirming their creative resistance and reinvention of subjectivity. Desire is revealed to be a powerful catalyst for escaping the regime of patriarchal representation.

Deleuzian Encounters

Deleuzian Encounters
Author: Anna Hickey-Moody
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Deleuzian Encounters brings together sixteen accessible, thought-provoking essays that examine the practical and ethical implications of Deleuze's philosophy for different contemporary social issues. Topics explored include: the environment, terrorism, refugees, indigenous reconciliation, gender, suicide, intellectual disability, injecting drug use, classroom teaching and global activism. Each contribution provides practical examples of how to make use of Deleuze's thought in social research, and offers fresh insights into the creative and innovative potentials Deleuze's philosophy holds for social thought and action.

Philosophy After Deleuze

Philosophy After Deleuze
Author: Joe Hughes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441195165

A clear and concise overview of and introduction to Deleuze's work in relation to philosophical inquiry.

Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari

Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari
Author: S. O'Sullivan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2005-12-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230512437

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts - the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc. - and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or 'outside' of representation - Simon O'Sullivan takes Deleuze's thought into other milieus, allowing these 'possible worlds' to work back on philosophy.

Bergson-Deleuze Encounters

Bergson-Deleuze Encounters
Author: Valentine Moulard-Leonard
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-08-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791477959

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter

Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter
Author: Ryan J. Johnson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474416543

More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism to the generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.

Theology After Deleuze

Theology After Deleuze
Author: Kristien Justaert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 144113736X

Deleuze's relationship with theology is a complex one. Indeed, there seem to be many possible objections to such an 'assemblage' taking place. In the first book of its kind to engage with this seemingly problematic dialogue, Kristien Justaert shows the ways in which Deleuze's thought can in fact advance issues in political and liberation theology in particular, while also exploring the important theological and spiritual aspirations contained in Deleuze's philosophy itself, as part of his lifelong quest for the 'Absolute'. Justaert examines the theological components in Deleuze's writings, investigating the theological potential of four notions that circle around the central Deleuzian concept of 'Life': immanence, spirituality, creativity and politics. The book goes on to connect Deleuze with both established theologies and possible theologies for the future, identifying areas in which Deleuze can contribute to the dynamics of contemporary theology, and argues that aspects of Deleuze's philosophy can enable theology to become more meaningful in a globalised world. This is the ideal introduction to Deleuzian theologies, and Deleuze's own theology, for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari

Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari
Author: Pirkko Moisala
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501316753

This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous understandings of music as permanent objects and primarily discursive texts. By elaborating on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari in innovative ways, the chapters of the book demonstrate how musical and sonic practices and expressions can be reconsidered as instances of becoming, actors in assemblages, and actualizations of virtual tendencies. The collection pushes notions of music and sound beyond such long-term paradigms as identity thinking, the privileging of signification, and the centrality of the human subject. The chapters of the volume bring a range of new topics and methodological approaches in contact with Deleuze and Guattari. These span from movement improvisation, jazz and western art music studies, sound and performance art and reality TV talent shows to deaf musicians and indigenous music. The book also highlights such fresh ways of doing analysis and shaping the methodological tools of music and sound studies that are enabled by Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy. Their philosophy, too, gains renewed capacities and potential when responding to ethnographic, cultural, ethnomusicological, participatory, aesthetic, new materialist, feminist and queer perspectives to music and sound.

Cinema After Deleuze

Cinema After Deleuze
Author: Richard Rushton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 082643892X

A clear and concise overview of and introduction to Deleuze's theories of cinema.