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Ecosophical Aesthetics Also available from Bloomsbury Deleuze and Art, Anne Sauvagnargues Aesthetics of Ugliness, Karl Rosenkranz Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy, edited by Constantin V. Boundas The Animal Catalyst, edited by Patricia MacCormack Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova General Ecology, edited by Erich Hörl and James Burton The Three Ecologies, Félix Guattari Ecosophy, Félix Guattari Schizoanalytic Cartographies, Félix Guattari Eco- Aesthetics, Malcolm Miles Anti- Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Ecosophical Aesthetics Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari Edited by Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2018 Copyright © Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner 2018 Patricia MacCormack and Colin Gardner have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. Cover image © Mark Mawson / Getty Images All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third- party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978- 1- 3500- 2619- 3 ePDF: 978- 1- 3500- 2620- 9 eBook: 978- 1- 3500- 2621- 6 Typeset by Newgen KnowledgeWorks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. For Louise and James Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements x List of Contributors xi Introduction Colin Gardner and Patricia MacCormack 1 Part 1 Therapy/ Care/ Affect/ Poetics: Towards an Ecosophical Ethics 1 Schizosemiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary Clinical Practice James Fowler and Patricia MacCormack 31 2 ‘An inside that lies deeper than any internal world’: On the Ecosophical Significance of Affect Jason Cullen 49 3 Care of the Wild: A Primer Aranye Fradenburg Joy 65 4 Audubon in Bondage: Extinct Botanicals and Invasive Species Penelope Gottlieb 95 5 From ‘Shipwreck of the Singular’ to Post- media Poetics: Pierre Joris’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-H allaj as Processual Praxis Jason Skeet 105 Part 2 Ecosophical Aesthetics, ‘UIQOSOPHY’ and the Abstract Machine 6 UIQOSOPHY (or an Unmaking- Of) Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni 127 7 The Guattarian Art of Failure: An Ecosophical Portrait Zach Horton 147 8 Into the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics in the Films of Terrence Malick Colin Gardner 173 9 The Delirious Abstract Machines of Jean Tinguely Joff P. N. Bradley 193 viii Contents Part 3 The Shattered Muse: Ecosophy and Transverse Subjectivities 10 The Shattered Muse: Mêtis, Melismatics and the Catastrosophical Imagination Charlie Blake 217 11 The Transversalization of Wildness: Queer Desires and Nonhuman Becomings in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Alexandra Magearu 245 12 Doing Something Close to Nothing: Marina Abramović’s War Machine renée c. hoogland 261 Index 277 Illustrations Figures 4.1 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Castilleja Cruenta Standl’ 97 4.2 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Hopea Shinkeng’ 98 4.3 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Otophora Unilocularis’ 99 4.4 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Extinct Botanicals: Valerianella Affinis’ 100 4.5 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Elaeagnus Umbellata’ 101 4.6 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Phyllostachys Nigra’ 102 4.7 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Rosa Laevigata’ 103 4.8 Penelope Gottlieb, ‘Invasive Species: Convolvulus arvensis’ 104 7.1 Diagram of Integrated World Capitalism 167 7.2 Diagram of ecosophy as integrative catalyst 168 9.1 Jean Tinguely, ‘Sketch for the “Philosophers” ’ display in his exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1988) 195 9.2 Jean Tinguely, ‘Hiroshima’ (1963) 198 9.3 Jean Tinguely, ‘Tokyo Gal’ (1967) 202 9.4 Jean Tinguely, ‘James Watt’ (1989) 206 12.1 Marina Abramović, ‘The Artist Is Present’ (2010) 263 12.2 Marina Abramović, ‘The Artist Is Present’ (2010) 264 Table 7.1 Dimensions of the three ecologies 165

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Inspired by the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book explores the many ways that aesthetics - in the forms of visual art, film, sculpture, painting, literature, and the screenplay - can act as catalysts, allowing us to see the world differently, beyond traditional modes of representatio
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