Ecosophical Aesthetics
Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari
by Patricia MacCormack, Colin Gardner
1st Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781350026193 |
| eText ISBN | 9781350026209 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 272 |
Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari, 1st Edition, is an anthology co-edited by Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner that investigates how creative practices serve as catalysts for ecological thought. Inspired by the writings of Félix Guattari, the volume explores how aesthetic forms move beyond traditional modes of representation.
The collection examines visual art, film, sculpture, painting, and literature to challenge the 19th-century Kantian dialectic dividing human beings, art, and the world. Instead, the book advances a non-hierarchical, transversal framework that critiques the environmental devastation of industrial capitalism while proposing affirmative, imaginative futures.
Featuring essays by philosophers, film theorists, and artists, the volume investigates non-dominant ways to engage the world and considers how artistic practices cultivate ethical relations with non-human entities.
Table of Contents
PART 1: Therapy/Care/Affect/Poetics: Towards and Ecosophical Ethics
Chapter 1: Schizosemiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary Clinical Practice.
Chapter 2: ‘An inside that lies deeper than any internal world’: On the Ecosophical Significance of Affect
Chapter 3: Care of the Wild: A Primer
Chapter 4: Audubon in Bondage: Extinct Botanicals and Invasive Species.
Chapter 5: From ‘Shipwreck of the Singular’ to Post-Media Poetics: Pierre Joris’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj as processual praxis
PART 2: Ecosophical Aesthetics, ‘UIQOSOPHY’ and the Abstract Machine
Chapter 6: UIQOSOPHY (or an Unmaking-of)
Chapter 7: The Guattarian Art of Failure: An Ecosophical Portrait
Chapter 8: Into the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics in the Films of Terrence Malick
Chapter 9: The Delirious Abstract Machines of Jean Tinguely
PART 3: The Shattered Muse: Ecosophy and Transverse Subjectivities
Chapter 10: The Shattered Muse: Mêtis, Melismatics & The Catastrosophical Imagination
Chapter 11: The Transversalization of Wildness: Queer Desires and Nonhuman Becomings in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
Chapter 12: Doing Something Close to Nothing: Marina Abramovic’s ‘War Machine!’
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