Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon

The Birth of Form

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Both Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by Simondon's ideas on individuation as process, and by other major figures of process philosophy such as Raymond Ruyer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Brian Massumi, Elena del Rio delves deep into Viola's art and finds a politics of nature that is also a politics of the affects. In taking full account of the interrelation between collective affects and living milieus, this politics exceeds the still anthropocentric project of a politics reductively focused on environmental degradation. The book works with a broad concept of ecology that encompasses a nature-culture continuum - from Simondon's associated milieu to Guattari's tripartite ecological praxis, from Deleuze and Guattari's existential territories to Massumi's affective events. Attending to this nature-culture continuum and activating our collective energies are prime strategies in tackling the overwhelming psycho-social and environmental crises we face.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:592 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399554770

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Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as Alphaville, Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Deleuze Studies, Discourse, Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

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Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon by Elena del Río is a beautifully crafted and timely exploration of the dynamic interplay between art, technology, and ecology. By weaving together Bill Viola’s immersive video installations and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, del Río illuminates how techno-ecologies redefine our understanding of existence, ecological interconnectedness, and collective transformation. A must-read for anyone seeking to grasp the creative potential of these intersections.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert SimondonPart I: Nature’s Gestures1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum2. Artful Politics of NatureIntermezzo: Video and the Digital ConvergencePart II: More-than-Human Ecologies3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal CinemaCoda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forwardReferences