Artmachines

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 Emeritus Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University. He specializes in interdisciplinary social and critical theory. In addition to 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 Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press 2024), 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).

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.

• AbbreviationsTranslator’s PrefaceIntroduction by Gregory FlaxmanPart I: Individuation on Three Planes: Literature, Philosophy, Art1. Cartographies of Style 2. Diagnosis and Construction of Concepts 3. Ecology of Images and Artmachines Part II: Deleuze, Aesthetics and the Image 4. The Concept of Modulation in Deleuze and the Importance of Simondon in the Deleuzian Aesthetic 5. Deleuze: Cinema, Image, Individuation 6. The Table of Categories as a Table of Montage Part III: Schizoanalysis: Territory, Ecology, and the Ritornello7. Ritorellos of Time 8. Guattari: A Schizoanalytic Knight on a Political Chessboard 9. Symptoms are Birds Tapping at the Window 10. Deligny: Wandering Lines Part IV: Machines and Assemblages11. Machines: How Does It Work? 12. Desiring Machines and Social Codings 13. Faciality NotesIndexBibliography