William E. Connolly: A World of Becoming (2010)
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In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate. This is a world composed of multiple interacting systems, including those of climate change, biological evolution, economic practices, and geological formations. Such open systems, set on different temporal registers of stability and instability, periodically resonate together to produce profound, unpredictable changes. To engage such a world reflectively is to feel pressure to alter established practices of politics, ethics, and spirituality. In pursuing such a course, Connolly draws inspiration from philosophers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, as well as the complexity theorist of biology Stuart Kauffman and the theologian Catherine Keller.
Attunement to a world of becoming, Connolly argues, may help us address dangerous resonances between global finance capital, cross-regional religious resentments, neoconservative ideology, and the 24-hour mass media. Coming to terms with subliminal changes in the contemporary experience of time that challenge traditional images can help us grasp how these movements have arisen and perhaps even inspire creative counter-movements. The book closes with the chapter “The Theorist and the Seer,” in which Connolly draws insights from early Greek ideas of the Seer and a Jerry Lewis film, The Nutty Professor, to inform the theory enterprise today.
Publisher Duke University Press, 2010
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
ISBN 0822348799, 9780822348795
224 pages
David Norman Rodowick (ed.): Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, film, film theory, image, immanence, philosophy, schizoanalysis, time-image
A critical debate on the importance—and usefulness—of Deleuze’s film theory
The first new collection of critical studies on Deleuze’s cinema writings in nearly a decade, Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy provides original essays that evaluate the continuing significance of Deleuze’s film theories, accounting systematically for the ways in which they have influenced the investigation of contemporary visual culture and offering new directions for research.
Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques; Ronald Bogue, U of Georgia; Giuliana Bruno, Harvard U; Ian Buchanan, Cardiff U; James K. Chandler, U of Chicago; Tom Conley, Harvard U; Amy Herzog, CUNY; András Bálint Kovács, Eötvös Loránd U; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U; Timothy Murray, Cornell U; Dorothea Olkowski, U of Colorado; John Rajchman, Columbia U; Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, U Paris VIII; Garrett Stewart, U of Iowa; Damian Sutton, Glasgow School of Art; Melinda Szaloky, UC Santa Barbara
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2010
ISBN 0816650063, 9780816650064
396 pages
Felicity Colman: Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts (2011)
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“Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on film: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Engaging with a wide range of film styles, histories and theories, Deleuze’s writings treat film as a new form of philosophy. This ciné-philosophy offers a startling new way of understanding the complexities of the moving image, its technical concerns and constraints as well as its psychological and political outcomes.
Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze’s revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze’s method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russian and Asian cinema.
Deleuze and Cinema provides the first introductory guide to Deleuze’s radical methodology for screen analysis. It will be invaluable for students and teachers of Film, Media and Philosophy.”
Publisher Berg, 2011
ISBN 1847887708, 9781847887702
288 pages
Reviews: Kam Chui Ping (Film-Philosophy 2012), Dorothea Olkowski (Cultural Sociology 2012).
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