Deleuze and Space: (Deleuze Connections)

Gilles Deleuze was arguably the twentieth century’s most spatial philosopher - not only did he contribute a plethora of new concepts to engage space, space was his very means of doing philosophy. He said everything takes place on a plane of immanence, envisaging a vast desert-like space populated by concepts moving about like nomads. Deleuze made philosophy spatial and gave us the concepts of smooth and striated, nomadic and sedentary, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, the fold, as well as many others to enable us to think spatially.This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze’s spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy and metaphysics. In doing so, it brings together some of the most accomplished Deleuze scholars writing today - Réda Bensmaîa, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Tom Conley, Manuel DeLanda, Gary Genosko, Gregg Lambert and Nigel Thrift.Key Features*The first book of critical commentary on the diverse intellectual, philosophical, artistic and architectural responses Deleuze's work on space has provoked in the past decade* Includes work from leading figures in the field of Deleuze studies and introduces authoritative new voices* Students and scholars in the fields of art, architecture, urban studies and philosophy will find this an invaluable guide to the work of an author whose impact is already substantial and is likely to grow in the years to come* Written in a lucid, introductory style that will appeal to non-specialists

Table of Contents:
DELEUZE AND SPACE; Table of Contents; Introduction; Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert; 1. Space in the Age of Non-Place; Ian Buchanan; 2. To See with the Mind and Think through the Eye: Deleuze, Folding Architecture, and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers; Paul A. Harris; 3. Stealing into Gilles Deleuze's Baroque House; Helene Frichot; 4. Space: Extensive and Intensive, Actual and Virtual; Manuel DeLanda; 5. 'Genesis Eternal': After Paul Klee; John David Dewsbury & Nigel Thrift; 6. After Informatic Striation:; The Resignification of Disc Numbers in Contemporary Inuit Popular Culture; Gary Genosko & Adam Bryx; 7. Thinking Leaving; Branka Arsic; 8. On the 'Spiritual Automaton,' Space and Time in Modern Cinema According to Gilles Deleuze; Réda Bensmaïa; 9. Ahab and Becoming-Whale: The Nomadic Subject in Smooth Space; Tamsin Lorriane; 10. Transcendental Aesthetics: Deleuze's Philosophy of Space; Gregory Flaxman; 11. The Space of Man: On the Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari; Claire Colebroo; 12. The Desert Island.; Tom Conley; 13. What the Earth Thinks.; Gregg Lambert.

About the Author :
Ian Buchanan is Professor of Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the founding editor of the journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies and the author of Assemblage Theory and Method (Bloomsbury, 2020). Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and Distinguished International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is author of many previous works on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, including The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002), Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2005), In Search for a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Expression (University of Minnesota, 2012); Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota, 2017) and ‘The People are Missing’: On Minor Literature Today (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).