PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Bernd Herzogenrathis Professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster (1999) and An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (2010) and editor of The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams (2012) and Deleuze|Guattari & Ecology(2009). His latest publications include the collections The Films of Bill Morrison. Aesthetics of the Archive (2017), Film as Philosophy (2017), and Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020).
In this bold collection, Bernd Herzogenrath has gathered together an extraordinary cadre of global authors to explore 'concept creation,' a legacy that the oeuvre of Deleuze and Guattari has left us with. As a 'travelogue,' it is a call to the field to decenter its Western Philosophical bias of English as the lingua franca, and to grasp 'a media philosophy' that infiltrates thought where 'materiality' is always in play. The 33 essays explore the relays between philosophy, art and science, creating 'interesting, remarkable, and important' concepts that open up new worlds and vistas. * Jan Jagodzinski, Professor, Visual Art and Media Education, University of Alberta, Canada * This book carves out a space for the multiplicity of concepts, offering a contribution not only to philosophy and media theory, but also to the cultural politics of academia: whose language are we writing in? Against the hegemony of Anglo-American language - and the standardized format of writing the global academia is meant to be pressed in - the joyful encounters between languages are here one contribution to the on-going task of decolonizing the expressive qualities of thinking. * - Jussi Parikka, Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark, and FAMU, Czech Republic *
