Table of Contents

Introduction Colin Gardner (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) PART 1: Therapy/Care/Affect/Poetics: Towards and Ecosophical Ethics Chapter 1. Schizosemiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary Clinical Practice. James Fowler and Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) Chapter 2. ‘An inside that lies deeper than any internal world’: On the Ecosophical Significance of Affect Jason Cullen (University of Queensland, Australia) Chapter 3. Care of the Wild: A Primer Aranye Fradenburg (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 4. Audubon in Bondage: Extinct Botanicals and Invasive Species. Penelope Gottlieb (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 5. From ‘Shipwreck of the Singular’ to Post-Media Poetics: Pierre Joris’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj as processual praxis Jason Skeet (Cardiff University, UK) PART 2: Ecosophical Aesthetics, ‘UIQOSOPHY’ and the Abstract Machine Chapter 6. UIQOSOPHY (or an Unmaking-of) Graeme Thomson and Silvia Maglioni (independent artists and filmmakers) Chapter 7. The Guattarian Art of Failure: An Ecosophical Portrait Zach Horton (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 8. Into the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics in the Films of Terrence Malick Colin Gardner (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 9. The Delirious Abstract Machines of Jean Tinguely Joff Bradley (Teikyo University, Japan) PART 3: The Shattered Muse: Ecosophy and Transverse Subjectivities Chapter 10. The Shattered Muse: Mêtis, Melismatics & The Catastrosophical Imagination Charlie Blake (University of Brighton, UK) Chapter 11. The Transversalization of Wildness: Queer Desires and Nonhuman Becomings in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood Alexandra Magearu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 12. Doing Something Close to Nothing: Marina Abramovic’s ‘War Machine!’ Renee C. Hoogland (Wayne State University, USA) Index

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Taking inspiration from the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book argues that aesthetics can open the human up to a more ethical relationship with the world.

About the Author

Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA where he teaches in the departments of Art, Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature and the History of Art and Architecture. Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, researching and writing on Deleuze, Guattari, Irigaray and Serres, poshumanism, ethics, animal rights, body modification, queer theory, transgression and horror film. She is the editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury 2014).

Reviews

A remarkable volume inspired by Guattarian ecosophy, advancing the complexity of ethico-aesthetic configurations and generating transversal flashes between carefully wrought contributions on multiple institutions and arts. Editors MacCormack and Gardner provide cartographies for creatively modifying existential territories, undertaken in the spirit of gentleness and modesty insisted upon by Guattari, and relevant to the responsibilities everyone is called upon to assume in the throes of the Anthropocene.
*Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada*

Ecosophical Aesthetics gathers an outstanding range of scholars who do not simply apply philosophy to questions of ecology, but allow the complexity of ecology to transform the ways in which we form philosophical questions. These essays will change the way we think about some of the most important questions of the future, including: what (and how) do we value and live in an age of threatened life?
*Claire Mary Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA*