Michel Foucault once suggested that the twentieth-century would be known
as 'Deleuzian'; certainly, in the field of contemporary art, this
prediction appears to have been accurate. But what, we might ask, is at
stake in this take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? What are its
limits and its possibilities? Deleuze and Contemporary Art addresses
these questions in presenting a series of experimental and explorative
inflections on the 'and' of the book's title.From those who explicitly
address the political and the expanded 'aesthetic paradigm' of art
practice today, to those more concerned with specific scenes and
encounters or who rethink the question of technology in relation to art,
this collection contains work at the cutting edge of this new area of
enquiry. Containing essays by philosophers and artists, as well as
writers from outside the Anglo-American world, this collection is an
exercise in transversality - an intervention into the field of Deleuze
and Guattari Studies and contemporary art.Contributors include Gustavo
Chirolla Ospina, Suely Rolnik, Gerald Raunig, Stephen Zepke, Eric
Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, Jussi Parikka, Johnny Golding, David
Burrows, Robert Garnett, Simon O'Sullivan, Edgar Schmitz, Claudia
Mongini, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Barbara Bolt, Neil Chapman and Ola
Stahl.Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher. Simon O'Sullivan is a
Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
They co-edited Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (2008).
