Exploring central aspects of the role of sexuality in Deleuze's philosophyFor Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms at the same time as they retain revolutionary potential. There is immense power in the thousand sexes of desiring-machines and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming. This book gathers prominent Deleuze scholars to explore the restricting and liberating forces of sexuality in relation to a spread of central themes in Deleuze's philosophy, including politics, psychoanalysis, and friendship as well as specific topics such as the body-machine, disability, feminism, and erotics.Key features* the first and only book-length study on sex in Deleuze
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This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.
Acknowledgements; Introduction-What is Sex: An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Frida Beckman; 1. Alien Sex: Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's Polysexuality, Ronald Bogue; 2. Heterotica: The 1000 Tiny Sexes of Anaïs Nin, Anna Powell; 3. Haemosexuality, Gretchen Riordan; 4. Disability, Deleuze, and Sex, Daniel Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom; 5. Tongue and Trigger: Deleuze's Erotics of the Uncanny (Images and Statement), Cara Judea Alhadeff; 6. (Hetero)sexing the child: Hans, Alice and the repressive hypothesisCatherine Driscoll, Carina Garland and Anna Hickey-Moody; 7. The 'Non-Human Sex' in Sexuality: 'What are Your Special Desiring-Machines, Gregg Lambert; 8. Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant's Copernican Revolution, Jeffrey A. Bell; 9. A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze, and the Sexing of Angels, Charlie Blake; 10. Encounters of Ecstasy, Patricia MacCormack; 11. Beyond Sexuality: of Love, Failure and Revolutions, Aislinn O'Donnell; Notes on the Contributors; Index.
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ISBN
9780748642618
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2011-07-07
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Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
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512 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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256

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Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).