From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence

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Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) Dr Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)

From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism

Philosophies of Immanence

Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada), Dr Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada), Terrance H McDonald (Brock University Canada)

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Bloomsbury Academic
27 July 2023

Philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Humanist & secular alternatives to religion; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Series: Theory in the New Humanities

Uncovering the theoretical and creative

interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this

volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman

theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new

pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental

discourses.

With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a

multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies – including

Spinoza and Nietzsche – to posthuman thought. As positions that insist,

respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and

the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism),

each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being,

thought, experience, and life.

The authors here take examples from a range of different

media, including literature and contemporary cinema, featuring films such as Enthiran/The

Robot (India, 2010) and CHAPPiE (USA/Mexico, 2015), and new

developments in technology and theory. In doing so, they investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and

perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics,

and social justice.

Countering the dualisms of Cartesian

philosophy and flattening the hierarchies imposed by Humanism, From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism launches vital

interrogations of established knowledge and sparks the critical reflection necessary

for life in the posthuman era.

Edited by: Christine Daigle (Brock University Canada), Dr Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada), Terrance H McDonald (Brock University Canada)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781350262263
ISBN 10: 1350262269
Series: Theory in the New Humanities
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Posthumanisms Through Deleuze, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) and Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada) 1. Posthuman Monism, Vital Neo-Materialisms, Affirmation, Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) 2. Deleuzean Traces: The Self of the Polyp, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) 3. The Art of Good Encounters: Spinoza, Deleuze and Macherey on Moving from Passive to Active Joy, Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) 4. Symmetry & Asymmetry in Conceptual and Morphological Formations: The Difference Plant Body Growth Can Make to Human Thought, Karen L. F. Houle (University of Guelph, Canada) 5. Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl’s and Deleuze’s Cosmologies, Alain Beaulieu (Laurentian University, Canada) 6. Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life, Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada) 7. Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema, Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 8. ‘Subaltern’ Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence: Enthiran and CHAPPiE, William Brown (Roehampton University, UK) 9. The Biopolitics of Posthumanism in ‘Tears in Rain’, Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside, USA) 10. Dis/abled Reflections on Posthumanism and Biotech, Martin Boucher (Laurentian University, Canada) 11. Becoming-Squid, Becoming-Insect, and the Refrain Of/From Becoming-Imperceptible in Contemporary Science Fiction: Or Scarlett the Post-Human Starlet, and Her ‘All too Human’ Male Counterparts, David H. Fleming (University of Stirling, UK) 12. Deleuze After Afro-Pessimism, Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA) 13. Incorporeal Transformations in Truth and Reconciliation: A Posthuman Approach to Transitional Justice, Mickey Vallee (Athabasca University, Canada)

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada, where she is also Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute. Terrance H. McDonald is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Posthumanism Research Network, Brock University, Canada. He is also the editor of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism.

Reviews for From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence

[T]he collection offers an important first step in a discourse ripe for theoretical inquiry, namely Deleuze, Guattari and Posthumanism. These theorists should be applauded for their sustained critique of Humanism and Anthropocentrism. --Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge A beautiful, ethically nuanced and radically divergent collection of invigorating contributions to the Deleuzio-Guattarian posthuman arena. This volume makes key concepts and applications relevant, sometimes devastatingly so, to the times in which we live, and in ethically living with these times. --Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, ARU, Cambridge, UK Emerging from generative precursors of Deleuzian immanence and interconnectivity, this superb collection offers multivalent musings on the theme of posthumanism. Mapping intersecting pathways across philosophy, aesthetics and politics, the essays subvert humanist thinking to reimagine life as an affective force for creative experimentation, diversification and joy. --Simone Bignall, Research Professor, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.