Gilles Deleuze was arguably the twentieth century's most spatial philosopher - not only did he contribute to a plethora of new concepts to engage space, space was his very means of doing philosophy. He said everything takes place on a plane of immanence, envisaging a vast desert-like space populated by concepts moving about like nomads. Deleuze made philosophy spatial and gave us the concepts of smooth and striated, nomadic and sedentary, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, the fold, as well as many others to enable us to think spatially.
This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy, and metaphysics. In doing so, it brings together some of the most accomplished Deleuze scholars writing today - Réda Bensmaîa, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Tom Conley, Manuel DeLanda, Gary Genosko, Gregg Lambert and Nigel Thrift.
Contributors:
Branka Arsic
Réda Bensmaïa
Adam Bryx
Ian Buchanan
ClaireColebrook
Tom Conley
Manuel DeLanda
John David Dewsbury
Gregory Flaxman
HélèneFrichot
Gary Genosko
Paul A. Harris
Gregg Lambert
This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy, and metaphysics.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert
- Space in the Age of Non-Place
Ian Buchanan - To See with the Mind and Think through the Eye: Deleuze, Folding Architecture, and Simon Rodia’s WattsTowers
Paul A. Harris - Stealing into Gilles Deleuze’s Baroque House
Hélène Frichot - Space: Extensive and Intensive, Actual and Virtual
Manuel DeLanda - ‘Genesis Ethernal’: After Paul Klee
John David Dewsbury and Nigel Thrift - After Informatic Striation: The Resignification of Disc Numbers in Contemporary Inuit Popular Culture
Gary Genosko and Adam Bryx - Thinking Leaving
Branka Arsic - On the ‘Spiritual-Automaton’, Space andTime in Modern Cinema According to Gilles Deleuze
Réda Bensmaïa - Ahab and Becoming-Whale: The Nomadic Subject in Smooth Space
Lorraine Tamsin - Transcendantal Aesthetics: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Space
Gregory Flaxman - The Space of Man: On the Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari
Claire Colebrook - The Desert Island
Tom Conley - What the Earth Thinks
Gregg Lambert