Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity
SE Wilmer editor Radek Przedpelski editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:31st Oct '20
Should be back in stock very soon

This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide. Including insights from contemporary Middle Eastern art to Indigenous ritual art and from feminist and queer art to architectural algorithms, this collection will decolonise your thinking about art - bypassing the traditional Western-centred art history. The first section includes theoretical essays on the concept of multiplicities, on affect and politics as well as the thought of Raymond Ruyer and Gilbert Simondon - 2 key influences on Deleuze and Guattari. The second section includes applied essays on specific art practices including the plastic arts, theatre, architecture, music and folk performances.
Przedpełski and Wilmer have brought together a remarkably wide-ranging collection of essays by top-notch scholars that explore both the philosophical trajectory of Deleuze’s concept of multiplicity as well as its ramifications in domains such as art and politics The volume will become a standard reference work for anyone interested in the complexities and implications of Deleuze’s philosophical concepts. * Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University *
Pulsating, vibrating and intensive, this collection does not just discuss the concept of multiplicity but also enacts it through the rich array of its multidisciplinary contributions. With topics ranging from film, theatre and sculpture through to Indigenous ritual, talismanic magic and Eastern European neo-avant-garde, it offers a significant contribution to the philosophy of creativity, while itself becoming a work of art. * Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London *
This collection of contributions illustrates the theme of multiplicities through the diversity of its points of view, its fields of research and the subjectivities that are expressed. The reference to Deleuze and/or Guattari supports an approach that allows it to develop freely, without applying prefabricated concepts. -- Anne Querrien * Deleuze and Guattari Studies *
ISBN: 9781474457651
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272 pages