In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this book attempts to map out an affirmative and specifically materialist attitude to modern and contemporary art. The volume begins with the mapping out of the philosophical terrain 'beyond representation', and beyond the so-called crisis of representation (deconstruction). The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorisation of art as an expanded and complex practice. The second half of the volume stages a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts - the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc. - and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or 'outside' of representation - Robert Smithson, the Situationists, Gerhard Richter, etc. Attention is also given to notions of a critical art practice, and to art's political and ethical potentiality. At stake in such encounters is less the development of a 'Deleuzian' approach to art, and more an experiment in doing Deleuze by taking his concepts into other milieus - and allowing these 'possible worlds' to work back on the philosophy.
'Sincere, passionate and unpretentious, O'Sullivan demonstrates how to construct an active engagement between art practice and Deleuze and Guattari's theory. This book sets the agenda for art criticism beyond interpretation and representation, and will be valuable to practitioners, students and academics alike.' - Professor Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham, UK
'This book is an important contribution to the field of art history and the growing scholarship around Deleuze and Guattari.' - Deleuze Studies
'A smart and accessible introduction to Deleuze's provocative and brilliant contributions to reconsidering art, Simon O'Sullivan has written a book that will open art up to its most contemporary understanding. A thoughtful, intense and original analysis of art as the most aesthetic but also political, ethical and cultural of human forms of self-overcoming, this book will change the way students and scholars understand the place of art in social life.' - Professor Elizabeth Grosz, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Introduction: Three Beginnings
Rhizomes, Machines, Multiplicities and Maps: Manifesto for an Expanded Art Practice (Beyond Representation)
The Ethicoaesthetics of Affect and the Bloc of Sensations: Reaffirming the Specificity of Art (Against Representation)
Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity
From Geophilosophy to Geoaesthetics: The Virtual and The Plane of Immanence vs. Mirror Travel and The Spiral Jetty
From Possible Worlds to Future Folds: Abstracts, Situationist Cities and the Baroque in Art
Conclusion: Three Endings
SIMON O'SULLIVAN is Lecturer in Art History/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He has published widely in the area of aesthetics and art theory, including articles in Parallax, Angelaki and Pli. This is his first monograph.
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坦白说,这本书的阅读体验是相当“烧脑”的,它更像是一场智力上的极限马拉松,而不是悠闲的下午茶阅读。作者似乎对清晰、线性的论证有着一种本能的反感,反而偏爱那种密集的、多声部的、甚至有些晦涩的语言构建。起初,我感到有些挫败,仿佛被扔进了一个没有参照物的迷宫。然而,一旦适应了这种“拓扑学”的思维模式,你会开始体验到一种奇异的快感——那就是在混乱的语词漩涡中捕捉到关键的结构性张力。这本书的力度在于它彻底拒绝了任何形式的简化主义,它坚持认为复杂性本身就是一种抵抗策略。对于那些渴望深入理解非经典哲学如何重塑当代批判理论框架的读者来说,这本书无疑是里程碑式的,但准备好迎接挑战吧,它不会轻易地给出答案,而是逼迫你自行生成答案。
评分这本书的结构本身似乎也在模仿它所探讨的主题——一种去中心化的、游牧式的思考路径。它不提供一个可以一目了然的“核心论点”,而是通过一系列相互渗透、相互引用的论证片段,构建出一个广阔的理论场域。我特别欣赏它对“间隙”和“边缘”的关注,那些在主流叙事中被忽略的、非功能性的空间和时间,在作者的笔下被赋予了关键的意义。这本书的语言充满了修辞上的张力,时而是冷峻的分析,时而又转为近乎诗意的爆发。它成功地将一些原本高高在上的形而上学探讨,拉回到具体的、身体性的、甚至可以说是“肮脏的”现实运作之中。对于任何希望跳出学院派既定框架,去探索真正具有颠覆性潜能的思想资源的人来说,这本书提供了一把开启新维度的关键钥匙,尽管这把钥匙可能需要反复打磨才能完全契合锁孔。
评分这本书的论述风格极其大胆,它在各个学科的疆界上肆意穿梭,毫不留情地将心理学、政治学、美学以及本体论的概念相互碰撞、熔铸。我印象最深的是它处理“欲望”与“生产”关系的段落,这种处理方式完全颠覆了传统的经济学或社会学对生产力的理解。它不再将艺术视为一种对社会现实的反映或抵抗,而将其视为一种纯粹的、无差别的能量耗散与累积过程。这种激进的视角迫使我重新审视艺术市场和艺术创作行为之间的内在共谋。全书弥漫着一种强烈的、几乎是暴力的理论能量,它不是在“解释”艺术,而是在“启动”艺术——试图以理论本身的运作,来模仿和放大艺术的内在驱动力。这本书对后现代语境下的主体性瓦解有着深刻的洞察,读起来酣畅淋漓,充满爆发力。
评分这本书简直是哲学爱好者和艺术理论研究者的福音,它以一种极其深入和广阔的视角,带领我们重新审视艺术与思想的边界。作者的文字充满了实验性和挑战性,毫不留情地撕开了传统美学框架的束缚,构建了一个全新的感知与创作的领域。我尤其欣赏它在处理复杂概念时展现出的那种毫不妥协的坚韧,它不满足于表面的阐释,而是要深入到现象的肌理之中,去触摸那些驱动创造力与欲望流动的“地下脉络”。读完后,你会感觉自己的思维被极大地拓宽了,很多原本被认为是定论的艺术实践和理论视角,都开始闪烁出新的、未知的可能性。这绝不是一本可以轻松阅读的书籍,它要求读者投入大量的精力去跟随作者构建的复杂逻辑链条,但最终的回报是巨大的知识和认知上的跃迁。它更像是一张地图,指引着通往后结构主义哲学思想腹地的崎岖小径,而非平坦的康庄大道。
评分作为一名长期关注当代艺术现场的观察者,我发现这本书提供了一种看待艺术作品的“异质性”视角,这在当下的学术环境中显得尤为珍贵。它不纠结于作品的表层意义或创作者的个人意图,而是着重分析作品如何在物质性、社会结构和精神能量之间建立起暂时的、不稳定的“联结体”(Assemblage)。这种分析方法极具穿透力,能揭示出那些隐藏在艺术流通和接受背后的权力运作和主体构建过程。阅读过程中,我常常停下来思考,自己过去对“风格”和“流派”的划分是否过于僵化和教条。作者似乎在暗示,真正的艺术力量恰恰在于其“去地域化”和“非线性”的潜能,即它如何能够持续地逃逸被固定化的意义捕获。这本书的价值在于它提供了一套强大的批判性工具,让我们可以更锐利地解构那些看似神圣不可侵犯的艺术“经典”。
评分"Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter (DR 139)." Deleuze <Difference and Repetition>
评分"Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter (DR 139)." Deleuze <Difference and Repetition>
评分"Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter (DR 139)." Deleuze <Difference and Repetition>
评分"Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter (DR 139)." Deleuze <Difference and Repetition>
评分"Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter (DR 139)." Deleuze <Difference and Repetition>
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