Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New

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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari have arguably gone further than anyone in contemporary philosophy in affirming a philosophy of creation, one that both establishes and encourages a clear ethical imperative: to create the new. In this remarkable undertaking, these two thinkers have created a fresh engagement of thought with the world. This important collection of essays attempts to explore and extend the creative rupture that Deleuze and Guattari produce in the Capitalism and Schizophrenia project. The essays in this volume, all by leading thinkers and theorists, extend Deleuze and Guattari's project by offering creative experiments in constructing new communities - of ideas and objects, experiences and collectives - that cohere around the interaction of philosophy, the arts and the political realm. Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New produces new perspectives on Deleuze and Guattari's work by emphasising its relevance to the contemporary intersection of aesthetics and political theory, thereby exploring a pressing contemporary problem: the production of the new.

Simon O'Sullivan is Senior Lecturer in Art History/ Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2005). Stephen Zepke teaches Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2005).

"The collection is...a strong one: well-written, entertaining and diverse. Further, its lack of formal structure and closure does have certain advantages, not the least that it remains true to some of Deleuze and Guattari's key ethical imperatives, namely: the importance of opening up movement and forging rhizomatic and transversal connections between problems and concepts." Notre Dame: Philosophical Reviews, January 2010 "[S]olo Guattari is given as much prominence as solo Deleuze or the joint work [...] The very identity of the new or of different kinds of new is examined [...] giving an admirably lucid exposition of the mechanics of the relationship between identity, difference and novelty in Deleuze [...] Overall, the combination of sustained intelligence, depth and variety throughout [...] is remarkable." Deleuze Studies 5.1 (2011) -- Guy Callan 'In true DeleuzoGuattarian fashion, this collection seeks to draw lines of flight, to escape the erudition that led to the evacuation of Guattari's influence, and to make productive connections with concrete artistic and political movements that span the twentieth century.' -- Ricky Crano, Foucault Studies, No. 12