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This volume assembles some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Deleuze studies in order to provide both an accessible introduction to key concepts in Deleuze''s thought and to test them in view of the issue of normativity. This includes not only the law, but also the question of norms and values in the broader ethical, political and methodological sense. The volume argues that Deleuze''s philosophy rejects the unitary vision of the subject as a self-regulating rationalist entity and replaces it with a process-oriented relational vision of the subject. But what can we do exactly with this alternative nomadic vision? What modes of normativity are available outside the parameters of liberal, self-reflexive individualism on the one hand and the communitarian model on the other? This interdisciplinary volume explores these issues in three directions that mirror Deleuze and Guattari''s defense of the parallelism between philosophy, science, and the arts. The volume therefore covers socio-political and legal theory; the epistemological critique of scientific discourse and the cultural, artistic and aesthetic interventions emerging from Deleuze''s philosophy.>
List of contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Rosi Braidotti & Patricia Pisters Part I: Normativity in Deleuze's Philosophy 1. Thinking and Normativity in Deleuze's Philosophy
Anders Raastrup Kristensen 2. One More "Next Step": Deleuze and Brain, Body and Affect in Contemporary Cognitive Science
John Protevi 3. The Spacetimes of Nympheas: Matter and Multiplicity in Einstein, Monet, and Deleuze and Guattari
Arkady Plotnitsky4.The Question of Deleuze's Neo-Leibnizianism
Simon Duffy Part II: Normativity, Habits and Problems of Law 5. Encounters, Creativity and Spiritual Automata
Constantin V. Boundas 6. Norm Wars
Claire Colebrook 7.Nature, Law and Chaosmopolitanism
Ronald Bogue Part III: Political Normativity and Deterritorialization 8. Infinite Debt and the Mechanics of Dispossesion
Matthew Tiessen 9. Poésie en étendue. Deleuze, Glissant, and a Post-postcolonial Aesthetics of the Earth
Birgit
Kaiser 10. The Minor Philosopher : The Political-Philosophical Relevance of Incomprehension
Tina Rahimy 11. Worse Luck
Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova Part IV: Normativity in Art and Media 12. Concepts and Creation
Daniel W. Smith 13. The Death Index
Felicity Colman 14. Vegetable Locomotion: A Deleuzian Ethics/Aesthetics of Traveling Plants L
aura Marks 15. Art and the Aesthetics of the Interface; Autonomy, Sensation and Biopolitics
Stephen ZepkeIndex
About the author
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She was the Founding Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies.
P.P.R.W. (Patricia) Pisters is Professor of Media and Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is also chair of the Department of Media Studies there and member of the steering committee of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies).
