Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Aidan Tynan Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (Edinburgh, 2012). He had co-edited two volumes: Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015).

This is a fantastic book, one that challenges and indeed moves the reader on virtually every page. It is worth reading for this alone—the sense one has, while reading it, of being in the presence of a brilliant mind moving from one original, well-crafted idea to the next. [...] Tynan’s achievement is nonetheless considerable: the book is an important contribution not only to the humanities but also to broader debates around how we might avoid the worst of the catastrophic ecological scenarios that are already at play.

• Introduction; 1. Desert Desire; 2. Desert Immanence; 3. Desert Refrains; 4. Desert Islands; 5. Desert Polemologies; Conclusion: Beyond the Carbon Imaginary.