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Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Series Editor:James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Continuum. The series features first-class scholarly research monographs across the field of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major Deleuze, Guattari contribution to the field of philosophical research. and the Production of the New Adorno s Concept ofLife, Alastair Morgan Being and Number in Heideggers Thought, Michael Roubach Badiou and Derrida, Antonio Calcagno Badiou, Balibar; Ranciere, Nicholas Hewlett Badiou, Marion and St Pau~ Adam Miller Deconstruction and Democracy, Alex Thomson Deleuze and Guattari, Fadi Abou-Rihan Deleuze and the Genesis ofRepresentation,Joe Hughes Edited by Deleuze and the Unconscious, Christian Kerslake Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, edited by Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke Simon 0' Sullivan Derrida, Simon Morgan Wortham Stephen Zepke The Domestication oJDerrida, Lorenzo Fabbri· Encountering Derrida, edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Allison Weiner Foucaults Heidegger, Timothy Rayner Heidegger and a Metaphysics ofFeeling, Sharin N. Elkholy Heidegger and Aristotle, Michael Bowler Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology, Peter S. Dillard Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction, Michael Lewis Heidegger; Politics and Climate Change, Ruth Irwin Heideggers Contributions to Philosophy, Jason Powell Heideggers Early Philosophy,James Luchte The Irony ojHeidegger, Andrew Haas Levinas and Camus, Tal Sessler Merleau-Ponty s Phenomenology, Kirk M. Besmer Nietzsches Ethical Theory, Craig Dove Nzetzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited byJames Luchte The Philosophy ofExaggeration, Alexander Garcia Duttmann Ricoeur and Lacan, Karl Simms Sartres Phenomenology, David Reisman Who s Afraid ojDeleuze and Guattari? Gregg Lambert Ziiek and Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman continuum." ----~==~-~~~.~.. ---------------------- ContinUllDl International Publishing Group The Tower Building I' 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Contents Suite 704 London SEI 7NX i: New York, NY 10038 i:" I WWW.continuumbooks.com " " Notes on Contributors vii , © Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke and Contributors 2008 I I' 1. Introduction: The Production of the New 1 j' All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form I or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any infor Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke mation storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 2. Sci Phi: Gilles Deleuze and the Future of Philosophy 11 British LIbrary Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Gregory Flaxman A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-1O: HB: 0-8264-9953-8 3. Alterity and Desire 22 ISBN-13: HB: 978-0-8264-9953-0 Bifo Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 4. The Readymade: Art as the Refrain of Life 33 Deleuze, Guattari, and the Production of the New/edited by Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke. Stephen Zepke p.em. Includes bibliographical references. 5. Art Methodologies in Media Ecology 45 ISBN 978-0-8264-9953-0 Matthew Fuller 1. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.2. Guattari, Felix, 1930-1992. I. O'Sullivan, Simon, 1967- II. Zepke, Stephen. ill. Title. 6. In Praise of Negativism 56 B2430.D454D49 2008 Alberto Toscano 194-dc22 2008010480 7. Affective Vectors: Icons, Guattari and Art 68 Chapter 21 is translated and reprinted with permiSsion from Felix Guattari, Cartographies Schizoanalytiques, Editions Galilee, 1989. Felicity Colman 8. A Portrait of Deleuze-Foucault for Contemporary Art 80 John Rajchman 9. The Production of the New and the Care ~fthe Self 91 Simon O'Sullivan 10. Thirty-four (New) Ways of Expressing 'Becoming/ Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Thinking' Through the Literary Work Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, King's Lynn, Norfolk of Art and Sexuality 104 Dorothea OlJwwski -------=======-=-----.------------------- 11. Readymades, Lavender Mist and Mirror Travel: Deleuze, Badiou and the Time of Art Practice David Burrows 116 12. as the Promise of Happiness: Waste and the Present Bea~ty 128 Clazre Colebrook Notes on Contributors 13. ~ontemporary Matisse (Variations in Three Two One) Eric Alliez ' , 139 14, Deleuze and the Production of the New Daniel W. Smith 151 Eric Alliez: Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London. 15. Sonic and Cultural Noise as Production of the New: He is the author of many books and articles including, in English Capital Times, T~e Industrial Music Media Ecology of Throbbing Gristle Tales from the Conquest of Time (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and The Mzchael Goddard 162 Signature ofthe World. Or, What is the Philosophy ofDe leuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2005). He has recently published La Pensee-Matisse (with Jean-Caude Bonne) 16. The Aesthetic Paradigm (Le Passage, 2005) and L'(Eil-Cerveau. Nouvelles Histoires de la peinture moderne Maurizio Lazzarato 173 (in collaboration withJean-Clet Martin) (Vrin, 2007). He is the general editor of the (Euvres de Gabriel Tarde and is a founding member of the editorial board 17. Painting Time with Light of the journal Multitudes. Darren Ambrose 184 I: Darren Ambrose: Visiting lecturer in Philosophical Aesthetics at Birmingham I Institute of Art and Design. His monograph, The Persistence ofSkepticism: Levinas 18. Jazz Improvisation: Music of the People-to-Come Beyond Hegel is forthcoming. He is also the editor of Deleuze and The Fold: Eugene Holland 196 A Critical Reader (with S. McKeown) (Palgrave, forthcoming). He is currently working on completing a short fIlm. 19. Novelty and Double CaUSality in Kant Whitehead and Deleuze ' Bifo (Franco Berardi): Professor in the Social History of Communication at Steven Shaviro 206 the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. He was an important member of the Italian Autonomedia movement, and is today involved in various media-activist 20. Resistance and Creation: An Introduction groups. Author of many books, including Felix (Luca Sossella Editore, 2001) to G:uattari's 'Consciousness and Subjectivity' (English translation forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Skizomedia Davzd Reggio 217 Trent'anni di mediattivismo (DeriveApprodi, 2005) and La fabbrica dell'infelicita (DeriveApprodi,2001). 21. Consciousness and Subjectivity David Burrows: Reader in Fine Art, Birmingham City University, UK. He is a Felix Guattari 222 widely exhibited artist based in London. Recent shows include 'All over the new smart', FA Projects, London 2008, 'Popnosis', Chungking Projects, Los Index 233 Angeles 2005, 'Moonage Daydream', Praz-Dle~vallade, Paris 2005, and 'New Life', Chisenhale, London (and UK tour), 2004. He is also co-founder (with Simon O'Sullivan) of the art-fIction group 'Plastique Fantastique' (see www. plastiquefantastique.org) . Claire Colebrook: Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK Author of, amongst others, Ethics and Representation: From Kant to a " Notes on Contributors viii Notes on Contributors ix Dorothea Olkowski: Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorad~, US: Author Poststructuralism (E.dinburgh University Press, 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, of Gilles Deleuze and The Ruin of Representation (University of CalifornIa Pres.s, 2001), Un~tandzng Deleuze (Cultural Studies) (Allen and Unwin, 2002) and 1999), and The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) (Edinbur?"h and ColumbIa Deleuze: A GuideforthePerplexed (Continuum, 2006). " University Presses, 2007). Editor of, amongst other volumes, Gilles Deleuze and the Felicity. Colman: Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Melbourne, Theater ofPhilosophy (with Constantin V. Boundas) (Routledge, 1994). AustralIa. Co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art (with Barbara Bolt, Graham Simon O'Sullivan: Senior Lecturer in ArtHistory/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths Jones and Ashley Woodward) (Cambridge Scholars, 2007). Author of the forth College, University of London, UK Author of various articles and essays cox:ning Deleuze and Cinema (Berg, 2009); editor of the forthcoming Film and on Deleuze, Modem/Contemporary art and aesthetics, and the book Art Phzlosophy: Key Thinkers (Acumen, 2009). Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2005). Greg~ry ~axman: Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Com Currently working on a second monograph on The production of Subjectivity. parauve LIterature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US. Editor of John Rajchnlan: Associate Professor and Director o~ MA Pro~s, Theory and The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of the Cinema (University of Min Criticism, 20th Century Art and Philosophy, UniversIty of ColumbIa, US. Author nesota, 2000), he is currently completing a monograph Gilles Deleuze and the of Constructions (MIT Press, 1998) and TheDeleuze Connections (MIT Press, 2000). Fabulation ofPhilosophy and a comprehensive anthology of philosophical writings about the cinema. David Reggio: Research Fellow in the Department of History, Go~dsmiths Col lege, University of London. Author and. translator of m~y arucles on Jean Matthew Fuller: David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Centre for Cultural Studies Oury, Deleuze and Guattari; has worked WIth two of Guattarl s ment~rs, Dr.Je~ Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Author of various books includ~ Oury and Professor Jacques