Deleuze, Digital Media and Thought - (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies) by Timothy Deane-Freeman

About the Book

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information.

Book Synopsis

Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside.

From the Back Cover

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls 'societies of control', which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside. Timothy Deane-Freeman is an independent scholar currently teaching across various higher education institutions in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Review Quotes

This fascinating book stages a novel encounter between digital media and Deleuze's account of what it is to think. It shows not only how Deleuzian concepts help to understand the contemporary digitization of film and information but also that, here too, resistance to the present is always possible.

--Paul Patton, Wuhuan University

About the Author

Timothy Deane-Freeman is an Independent Scholar currently teaching across various higher education institutions in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His work has been published in Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophical Inquiries and Inscriptions, and he is presently co-editing a collection on philosophical accounts of artistic agency.