Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Illustrations viii
5. Introduction: Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art 1
6. POLITICS
7. Chapter 1 The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody 15
8. Chapter 2 A Shift Towards the Unnameable 34
9. Chapter 3 The Heterogenesis of Fleeing 43
10. Chapter 4 Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique 63
11. THE AESTHETIC PARADIGM
12. Chapter 5 Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus: Of Relational Aesthetics 85
13. Chapter 6 The Practice and Anti- Dialectical Thought of an ‘Anartist’ 100
14. Chapter 7 Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do? 116
15. Chapter 8 Fractal Philosophy (And the Small Matter of Learning How to Listen): Attunement as the Task of Art 133
16. SCENES AND ENCOUNTERS
17. Chapter 9 An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: The Logic of Scenes 157
18. Chapter 10 Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction 176
19. Chapter 11 From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari and Contemporary Art Practice 189
20. Chapter 12 Traps Against Capture 208
21. TECHNOLOGIES
22. Chapter 13 Sign and Information: On Anestis Logothetis’ Graphical Notations 227
23. Chapter 14 Anti- Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy 246
24. Chapter 15 Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition 266
25. Chapter 16 BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR 286
26. Notes on Contributors 310
27. Index 317