Deleuze and the Animal

The first volume to address the animal in Deleuze’s work, looking at philosophy, aesthetics and ethics

Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze’s work. These 16 essays apply Deleuze’s work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human. This collection creates new questions about what the age of the Anthropocene means by ‘animal’ and analyses and explores examples of the unclear boundaries between human and animal.

Key Features

• Establishes new approaches for future readings of animality in Deleuze across a variety of fields
• Makes Deleuze contemporary and relevant for arguably one of the most crucial and foregrounded fields in philosophy: human–animal studies in the age of the Anthropocene
• Contributors include John Ó Maoilearca, Charles Stivale and Joanna Bednarek

Notes on Contributors

Joanna Bednarek, philosopher, translator and writer.

Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, USA.

Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen.

Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.

renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.

Zach Horton, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, USA.

Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University London, UK.

Nur Ozgenalp, Aki-ArtEZ Enschede, SAE Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam University College and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Netherlands.

Serazer Pekerman, University of St Andrews, UK.

Laurence A. Rickels, Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany, and European Graduate School, Switzerland.

Dennis Rothermel, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at California State University, Chico, USA.

Charles J. Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.