Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures v
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Foreword viii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Asynchronous Present Past 11
8. 2 (Dis)enchanted Taiwanese Cinema, Schizoanalytic Belief and the Actuality of Animism 21
9. 3 Attractors and Locked-In Art: Art History as a Complex System 39
10. 4 Enduring Habits and Artwares 61
11. 5 Mood (Stimmung) / Blandness (Fadeur): On Temporality and Affectivity 81
12. 6 The Plasticity of the Real: Speculative Architecture 99
13. 7 Expressive Things: Art Theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro Reconsidered 113
14. 8 Gothic Ontology and Sympathy: Moving Away from the Fold 131
15. 9 Serpentine Life: The Nature of Movement in Gothic, Mannerism and Baroque 163
16. 10 Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After 185
17. 11 Speculation, Critique, Constructivism: Notions for Art History 203
18. 12 The Potentiality of Art, the Force of Images and Aesthetic Intensities 225
19. 13 Impossible! Bergson after Duchamp after Caillois 245
20. 14 Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant’s New Babylon and Contemporary Capitalism 265
21. 15 From Étienne Souriau’s The Shadow of God to Mats Ek’s Shadow of Carmen 281
22. Notes on Contributors 291
23. Index 297