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'This book offers us a variety of perspectives both on the animals that we are, and on the animals that we will never be able to know or to become. It is a timely reminder of the many processes and relations linking us to the "buzzing, blooming confusion" around us.'
Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
Explores the relationship between Deleuze and the concept of the animal in philosophy, aesthetics and ethics
This is the first volume to address the animal in Deleuze's work, despite becoming-animal being a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari. It shows the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrating all of Deleuze's work.
In these 16 chapters Deleuze's entire oeuvre is used in analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.
This collection creates new questions about what the age of the anthropocene means by 'animal' and analyses and explores examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.
Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University. Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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List of contents
Introduction, Colin Gardner and Patricia MacCormack
Part I: Undoing Anthropocentrism: Becoming-Animal and the Non-Human1. Ahuman Abolition, Patricia MacCormack
2. Brutal Thoughts: Laruelle and Deleuze on Human Animal Stupidity, John Ó Maoilearca
3. The Oedipal Animal? Companion Species and Becoming, Joanna Bednarek
Part II: Vectors of Becoming-Imperceptible: the Multiplicity of the Pack4. Louis Malle's Kleistian War Machine: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Imperceptible in
Black Moon (1975), Colin Gardner
5. Ant and Empire: Myrmetic Writing, Simulation, and the Problem of Reciprocal Becomings, Zach Horton
6. Music-becoming-animal in works by Grisey, Aperghis and Levinas, Edward Campbell
7. Un/Becoming Claude Cahun: Zigzagging in a Pack, renée c. hoogland
Part III: Animal Politics, Animal Death: Transversal Connectivities and the Creation of an Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm8. Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari through Metamodelization: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us about Animal Politics, Colin Gardner
9. Becoming-shewolf and ethics of solidarity in Once Upon a Time: Feminist and posthumanist re-assembling of Little Red Riding Hood, Nur Ozgenalp
10. Hannibal
aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres, Charles Stivale
11. The Unmournable Animal Death, Laurence Rickels
Part IV: Animal Re-territorializations in Art and Cinema12. Five Meditations on 'How to Make a Territory with the Work of Art?', Gregg Lambert
13. Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative, Dennis Rothermel
14. Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable and Godard's
Adieu au langage, Ronald Bogue
Part V: Transverse Animalities: Ecosophical Becomings15. Interkingdoms of Alcohol: Interspecies Assemblages, Sobriety, and Intoxication, Gary Genosko
16. Becoming-Wolf: From Wolfman to the Tree Huggers of Turkey, Serazer Pekerman
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies in the departments of Art, Film and Media Studies, the History of Art and Architecture, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Karel Reisz (Manchester University Press, 2007) and Joseph Losey (Manchester University Press, 2004).Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. She is the the author of Cinesexuality (Ashgate/Routledge 2008) and Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory (Ashgate/Routledge 2012), editor of The Animal Catalyst: Toward Ahuman Theory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (Continuum, 2008).
Summary
These 14 essays apply Deleuze and Guattari's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.
