Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari

307 Pages·2018·26.29 MB·English

by  Patricia MacCormack

Ecosophical Aesthetics
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Ecosophical Aesthetics

Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari
Edited by
Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner
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Contents

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Contributors xi
Introduction Colin Gardner and Patricia MacCormack 1
Part 1 Therapy/ Care/ Affect/ Poetics: Towards an Ecosophical Ethics
1 Schizosemiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary
Clinical Practice James Fowler and Patricia MacCormack 31
2 ‘An inside that lies deeper than any internal world’: On the
Ecosophical Significance of Affect Jason Cullen 49
3 Care of the Wild: A Primer Aranye Fradenburg Joy 65
4 Audubon in Bondage: Extinct Botanicals and Invasive
Species Penelope Gottlieb 95
5 From ‘Shipwreck of the Singular’ to Post- media Poetics: Pierre
Joris’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-H allaj as Processual
Praxis Jason Skeet 105
Part 2 Ecosophical Aesthetics, ‘UIQOSOPHY’ and the Abstract Machine
6 UIQOSOPHY (or an Unmaking- Of) Graeme Thomson and
Silvia Maglioni 127
7 The Guattarian Art of Failure: An Ecosophical Portrait Zach Horton 147
8 Into the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics
in the Films of Terrence Malick Colin Gardner 173
9 The Delirious Abstract Machines of Jean Tinguely Joff P. N. Bradley 193
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Part 3 The Shattered Muse: Ecosophy and Transverse Subjectivities
10 The Shattered Muse: Mêtis, Melismatics and the Catastrosophical
Imagination Charlie Blake 217
11 The Transversalization of Wildness: Queer Desires and Nonhuman
Becomings in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Alexandra Magearu 245
12 Doing Something Close to Nothing: Marina Abramović’s War
Machine renée c. hoogland 261
Index 277
Illustrations

Figures
4.1 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Castilleja Cruenta Standl’ 97
4.2 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Hopea Shinkeng’ 98
4.3 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Otophora Unilocularis’ 99
4.4 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Valerianella Affinis’ 100
4.5 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Elaeagnus Umbellata’ 101
4.6 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Phyllostachys Nigra’ 102
4.7 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Rosa Laevigata’ 103
4.8 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Convolvulus arvensis’ 104
7.1 Diagram of Integrated World Capitalism 167
7.2 Diagram of ecosophy as integrative catalyst 168
9.1 Jean Tinguely, ‘Sketch for the “Philosophers” ’ display in his
exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1988) 195
9.2 Jean Tinguely, ‘Hiroshima’ (1963) 198
9.3 Jean Tinguely, ‘Tokyo Gal’ (1967) 202
9.4 Jean Tinguely, ‘James Watt’ (1989) 206
12.1 Marina Abramović, ‘The Artist Is Present’ (2010) 263
12.2 Marina Abramović, ‘The Artist Is Present’ (2010) 264
Table
7.1 Dimensions of the three ecologies 165