Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...It might seem at first glance that Gilles Deleuze would be the anti-normative theorist par excellence and that we could turn to his work to add rigour to a widespread and increasingly intense affirmation of seemingly counter-normative...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...If a certain image of life has now become dominant – if life is accepted as a prima facie good, and as the foundational virtue in a world without foundations – this is because there has been a widespread and highly normative expulsion...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Aesthetics and vitalism
From its inception ‘aesthetics’ has concerned the capacity for the work of art to enliven perception. In its Kantian, and dominant, form this means that when we view art it is our transcendental capacity...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...For Deleuze and Guattari there is a drive to death, a counter-organic drive that is fully vital. Indeed, it is only when life is no longer bound to the organism’s proper functioning (only when, for example, one could detach seeing, thinking...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Deleuze’s Cinema Books
Deleuze’s two cinema books (published in French in 1983 and 1985 and translated into English in 1986 and 1987) are, obviously, books about cinema – the first having to do with classical cinema, or cinema up until...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
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... in counter-rationalist philosophy ever since.ClaireColebrook, Irony: The New Critical Idiom (London: Routledge, 1994). There has always been an intense vitalist underpinning and undermining of theory. In its first articulations, Aristotle grounded...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Living Systems
As already noted, Maturana and Varela present their work on living systems as anti-Cartesian, anti-representational and systemic. Rather than beginning from some understanding of the bounded organism, the aim of their work...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Destruction of the Sensory-Motor Apparatus and the Spiritual Automaton
If classical cinema went some way to freeing thought from its habits and clichés by presenting images of movements not reducible to a single located observer...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Vitalism in its narrow sense might be identified with a handful of relatively recent names: Henri Bergson, Raymond Ruyer, William James; and a broader tendency in twentieth-century thought to criticize the ways in which systems...
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Monument
Philosophy’s concepts, Deleuze insists, are not abstractions: we do not look at all the instances of justice and then define justice as a generality. Rather, a philosophical concept allows us to think of the power or potential...
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