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Establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's workAffirms Guattari as an important voice in contemporary ecology and as a not-yet-fully acknowledged nodal point in the creation of that ecologyWith case studies of Guattari's reading of Balthus paintings, his theory of architecture and his reading of ProustTraces the potential of schizoecology for the fields of architecture, the visual arts, literature, politics and ethicsTo look at a situation ecologically means to analyse and administer it with the practical aim of creating a space in which it is possible to actualise viable modes of life. To create a multiplicitous, open and elastic milieu that is conducive to processes of both individuation and singularisation. Hanjo Berressem covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work, as well as the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze. The core of his argument is developed through a rigorous explication and analysis of Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies. This reveals an ecological ontology developed from key concepts such as the informal diagram, the abstract machine and transversality, which is based on the conceptual complementarity of the world (the given) and its creatures (the giving)

Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's workDevelops the notion of Deleuze's 'philosophical luminism' A rich and detailed presentation of Deleuze's cohesive philosophyProvides an affirmative and 'luminous' reading of Deleuze that interacts critically with recent studies that promote a 'dark Deleuze'Covers the entire range of Deleuze's writing'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as 'The Actual and the Virtual', 'Lucretius and the Simulacrum' and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought. The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's work delivers a novel reading of Deleuzian philosophy from the perspective of the complementarity of the photon. Berressem reveals a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights for anyone with an interest in Deleuze and in the implications of Deleuze's philosophical photonics for historiography, literary studies, painting and film

On the theoretical backdrop of Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear, Michel Foucault's Of Other Spaces', Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies and Gilles Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control', this essay traces how Pynchon addresses the relentless capitalisation of life and politics. Against the idea that his late work is Pynchon Lite', the essay argues that Pynchon's overall poetics and ethics, have, if anything, become even more strident, with Bleeding Edge the most bitter and angry novel he has written so far; a true late' work, a Jeremiad that, somewhat like Goya's pinturas negras, throws reality into stark and clear relief. At the centre of the discussion is the notion of greed as an obscure compulsion to gather wealth beyond that which is enough'. Of all living creatures, only humans have developed economies of infinite greed. As both greed and economy are time- and site-specific, Pynchon provides carefully researched chronologies and geographies of the two in order to adequately address their interaction in particular historical moments. With his tales of dispossession and betrayal', of which this essay traces in particular Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, Pynchon becomes one of many American writers and filmmakers who have made greed the centre of their concern.

Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum.This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy.It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.

Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy.

Weshalb faszinieren und inspirieren die Sieben Todsünden bis heute – auch und gerade obwohl theologische Kommentare längst an Verbindlichkeit eingebüßt haben? In exemplarischen Studien widmet sich der Sammelband der Wirkungsgeschichte der Sieben Todsünden in den unterschiedlichen Künsten: Literatur und bildende Kunst, Film und Fernsehen. Der Fokus liegt weniger auf einer Ideengeschichte der Todsünden als auf deren Formelhaftigkeit, die gerade im Verblassen der ursprünglichen Hintergründe ihre Wirkmacht in breiter diskursiver Streuung entfaltet. Dabei reichen die vielfältigen Fortschreibungen und Transformationen weit über das frühe Mittelalter und die klassische Theologie hinaus und zeigen in der Moderne und Postmoderne verstärkt nur noch Allusionen auf die ursprünglich religiöse Ordnungsphantasie. So werden die Todsünden zu einem intermedialen Fundus für ethische und politische Reflexionen, ästhetische Transformationen und künstlerische Experimente. Der Band versammelt Studien, die sich aus literatur-, medien- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive sowohl den einzelnen Todsünden superbia, invidia, ira, acedia, avaritia, gula, luxuria als auch dem Septenar insgesamt widmen.