Read more
Zusatztext Deleuze and Ethology is an impressive account not only of what Deleuze and Guattari took directly from ethology, but how their own work can be understood as continuing the work of ethology by other means. Its reconsideration of Deleuze’s cinema book from this perspective is especially interesting in this regard. Informationen zum Autor Jason Cullen is a research assistant at the University of Queensland, Australia. His current research interests are the intersections of Deleuze, process philosophy, and the history and philosophy of biology. Zusammenfassung Ethology, or how animals relate to their environments, is currently enjoying increased academic attention. A prominent figure in this scholarship is Gilles Deleuze and yet, the significance of his relational metaphysics to ethology has still not been scrutinised. Jason Cullen’s book is the first text to analyse Deleuze’s philosophical ethology and he prioritises the theorist’s examination of how beings relate to each other. For Cullen, Deleuze’s Cinema books are integral to this investigation and he highlights how they expose a key Deleuzian theme: that beings are fundamentally continuous with each other. In light of this continuity then, Cullen reveals that how beings understand each other shapes them and allows them to transform their shared worlds. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. First Chapter: The Problem: An Ethology of Sense, or, a Sensible Ethology?3. Second Chapter: On Deleuze’s Spinozism: Expression and Sense-Making in the Logic of Holism. 4. Third Chapter: On Deleuze’s Bergson: The Transformation of the Whole.5. Fourth Chapter: Cinema and Affect.6. Fifth Chapter: On Cinematic Subjects, Experimentation Beyond the Action-Image, and an ‘Art of Living.’7. Conclusion8. Bibliography9. Index
