In this Book
- Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3
- 2020
- Book
- Published by: Leuven University Press

Exploring
“assemblage theory” in relation to the arts and to artistic research
The concept of
assemblage has emerged in recent decades as a central tool for describing,
analysing, and transforming dynamic systems in a variety of disciplines. Coined
by Deleuze and Guattari in relation to different fields of knowledge, human
practices, and nonhuman arrangements, “assemblage” is variously applied today
in the arts, philosophy, and human and social sciences, forming links not only
between disciplines but also between critical thought and artistic practice. Machinic Assemblages focuses on the
concept’s uses, transpositions, and appropriations in the arts, bringing
together the voices of artists and philosophers that have been working on and
with this topic for many years with those of emerging scholar-practitioners. The
volume embraces exciting new and reconceived artistic practices that discuss
and challenge existing assemblages, propose new practices within given
assemblages, and seek to invent totally unprecedented assemblages.
Contributors: Gareth Abrahams, Burcu Baykan, Ian Buchanan, Edward Campbell, Iain Campbell, Rogério Luiz Costa, Annita Costa Malufe, Paul Dolan, Lilija Duobliene, Vanessa Farfán, Silvio Ferraz, José Gil, Barbara Glowczewski, Christoph Hubatschke, jan jagodzinski, Niall Dermot Kennedy, George E. Lewis, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo, Clara Maïda, Thomas Nail, Tero Nauha, Alex Nowitz, Morgan O’Hara, Yota Passia, Peter Pál Pelbart, Anne Sauvagnargues, Niamh Schmidtke, Chris Stover, Ron Wigglesworth, Audronė Žukauskaitė
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Table of Contents
- Half-title, Title
- pp. 1-4
- Table of Contents
- pp. 5-8
- Editors' Preface
- pp. 9-10
- Part 1: Music
- Machining the Bird
- pp. 155-162
- Part 2: Art
- How to Dance with Robots
- pp. 209-222
- Machines with Organs: Model 5052
- pp. 223-234
- The Machinic Desire of Cinema
- pp. 249-260
- Part 3 Ecosophy
- Assemblages, Black Holes, and Territories
- pp. 284-297
- Ethology of Images as Machinic Assemblages
- pp. 310-319
- Live Transmission
- pp. 430-445
- Online Materials
- pp. 446-447
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 448-455