Artmachines - by Anne Sauvagnargues (Paperback)

About the Book

Across 13 essays - 12 of which were previously unavailable in English - Deleuze specialist Anne Sauvagnargues reveals the continuing potential of Deleuze, Guattari and Simondon to invent new concepts and new modes of creativity and existence.

Book Synopsis

Across 13 essays - 12 of which were previously unavailable in English - Deleuze specialist Anne Sauvagnargues reveals the continuing potential of Deleuze, Guattari and Simondon to invent new concepts and new modes of creativity and existence. She redeploys their work, together with other key philosophers including Bergson, Lacan, Deligny and Ruyer, to create new concepts including geophilosophy, the artmachine, the ritornello, schizoanalysis and the machinic assemblage.

From the Back Cover

'Anne Sauvagnargues is one of Deleuze's best interpreters because she is also one of Guattari's best interpreters, a combination that makes Artmachines one of the most significant books ever written on Deleuze and Guattari. In this wide-ranging set of essays, Sauvagnargues analyzes a host of Deleuze and Guattari's most vital concepts. Along the way, she discusses the work of various thinkers who had a profound influence on Deleuze and Guattari, such as Simondon, Ruyer, Leroi-Gourhan, and Deligny. But above all, Artmachines reveals Sauvagnargues to be a pioneering thinker in her own right, forging a powerful philosophy of variation and individuation that is destined to make Sauvagnargues one of the preeminent figures in French philosophy.' Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University A compendium of essays by French philosopher Anne Sauvagnargues Artmachines presents, constructs and transforms the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, excavating from their work a new philosophy of individuation and creative production. The 13 essays in this book, all but one previously unavailable in English, redeploy the work of Deleuze, Guattari and Simondon as well as other figures in contemporary thought including Bergson, Lacan, Deligny and Ruyer, revealing the continuing potential for the invention of new concepts and of new modes of creativity and existence through their work. The essays cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries dividing literary theory, history, art history, philosophy and psychoanalysis, developing concepts capable of rejuvenating them, including geophilosophy, the artmachine, the ritornello, schizoanalysis and the machinic assemblage. Gregory Flaxman provides a contextualising Introduction for Sauvagnargues' telescopic method and work. Anne Sauvagnargues is Professor of Philosophy at Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense, France. Suzanne Verderber is Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Eugene W. Holland is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Gregory Flaxman is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Cover image: ice crystals (c) Ieva Geneviciene/Shutterstock.com Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0253-8 Barcode Suzanne Verderber is Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Eugene W. Holland is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Gregory Flaxman is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Cover image: ice crystals (c) Ieva Geneviciene/Shutterstock.com Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Review Quotes

Anne Sauvagnargues is one of Deleuze's best interpreters because she is also one of Guattari's best interpreters, a combination that makes Artmachines one of the most significant books ever written on Deleuze and Guattari. In this wide-ranging set of essays, Sauvagnargues analyzes a host of Deleuze and Guattari's most vital concepts. Along the way, she discusses the work of various thinkers who had a profound influence on Deleuze and Guattari, such as Simondon, Ruyer, Leroi-Gourhan, and Deligny. But above all, Artmachines reveals Sauvagnargues to be a pioneering thinker in her own right, forging a powerful philosophy of variation and individuation that is destined to make Sauvagnargues one of the preeminent figures in French philosophy.--Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University

About the Author

Anne Sauvagnargues is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris 10).

Suzanne Verderber is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute, New York.

Eugene W. Holland is Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University. He specializes in interdisciplinary social and critical theory. In addition publishing articles in journals such as Culture, Theory and Critique, Symposium, South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Logic, Strategies, Angelaki, and SubStance on topics in poststructuralist theory and particularly the work of Gilles Deleuze, he is the author of Readers Guide to A Thousand Plateaus [Bloomsbury/Continuum 2013], Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike [University of Minnesota Press 2011], Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis [Routledge 1999], and Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism [Cambridge UP 1993].