Deleuze and the body / edited by Laura Guillaume and Joe Hughes.

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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Pity the Meat?: Deleuze and the Body; Chapter 1 Time and Autopoiesis: The Organism Has No Future; Chapter 2 Larval Subjects, Autonomous Systems and E. Coli Chemotaxis; Chapter 3 Bodies of Learning; Chapter 4 Believing in the World: Toward an Ethics of Form; Chapter 5 Matter as Simulacrum; Thought as Phantasm; Body as Event; PRACTICAL DELEUZISM; Chapter 6 The 'Virtual' Body and the Strange Persistence of the Flesh: Deleuze, Cyberspace and the Posthuman; Chapter 7 'Be(come) Yourself only Better': Self-transformation and the Materialisation of Images.

Chapter 9 Multi-Dimensional ModificationsChapter 10 Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze's Nietzsche; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Summary: A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect. Key features. Brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body Contributors include Ella Brians, Claire Colebrook, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Cutler, Patricia MacCormack, Iain MacKenzie, John Protevi, Peta Malins, Philipa Rothfield and Nathan Widder Of interest to those concerned with theories of the body and affectivity, and those interested in performance arts, film and contemporary culture

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Chapter 9 Multi-Dimensional ModificationsChapter 10 Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze's Nietzsche; Notes on Contributors; Index.

A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect. Key features. Brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body Contributors include Ella Brians, Claire Colebrook, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Cutler, Patricia MacCormack, Iain MacKenzie, John Protevi, Peta Malins, Philipa Rothfield and Nathan Widder Of interest to those concerned with theories of the body and affectivity, and those interested in performance arts, film and contemporary culture

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