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Author : Elizabeth A. Grosz
Release : 2008
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaos, Territory, Art by : Elizabeth A. Grosz
Download or read book Chaos, Territory, Art written by Elizabeth A. Grosz. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Acknowledgments1. Chaos. Cosmos, Territory, Architecture2. Vibration. Animal, Sex, Music3. Sensation. The Earth, a People, ArtNotes Bibliography Index.
Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Release : 2008-05-30
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 874/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaos, Territory, Art by : Elizabeth Grosz
Download or read book Chaos, Territory, Art written by Elizabeth Grosz. This book was released on 2008-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention and aesthetic. By regarding our most cultured human accomplishments as the result of the excessive, nonfunctional forces of sexual attraction and seduction, Grosz encourages us to see art as a kind of bodily enhancement or mode of sensation enabling living bodies to experience and transform the universe. Art can be understood as a way for bodies to augment themselves and their capacity for perception and affection-a way to grow and evolve through sensation. Through this framework, which knits together the theories of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jakob von Uexküll, we are able to grasp art's deep animal lineage. Grosz argues that art is not tied to the predictable and known but to new futures not contained in the present. Its animal affiliations ensure that art is intensely political and charged with the creation of new worlds and new forms of living. According to Grosz, art is the way in which life experiments with materiality, or nature, in order to bring about change.
Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Release : 2011-09-12
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 718/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Undone by : Elizabeth Grosz
Download or read book Becoming Undone written by Elizabeth Grosz. This book was released on 2011-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting series combining a strong teenage appeal with a clear structural syllabus.
Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Incorporeal by : Elizabeth Grosz
Download or read book The Incorporeal written by Elizabeth Grosz. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism—either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive—space, time, the void, and sense are the incorporeal conditions of all that is corporeal or material. In The Incorporeal Elizabeth Grosz argues that the ideal is inherent in the material and the material in the ideal, and, by tracing its development over time, she makes the case that this same idea reasserts itself in different intellectual contexts. Grosz shows that not only are idealism and materialism inextricably linked but that this "belonging together" of the entirety of ideality and the entirety of materiality is not mediated or created by human consciousness. Instead, it is an ontological condition for the development of human consciousness. Grosz draws from Spinoza's material and ideal concept of substance, Nietzsche's amor fati, Deleuze and Guattari's plane of immanence, Simondon's preindividual, and Raymond Ruyer's self-survey or autoaffection to show that the world preexists the evolution of the human and that its material and incorporeal forces are the conditions for all forms of life, human and nonhuman alike. A masterwork by an eminent theoretician, The Incorporeal offers profound new insight into the mind-body problem
Author : Martin Meisel
Release : 2016-01-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaos Imagined by : Martin Meisel
Download or read book Chaos Imagined written by Martin Meisel. This book was released on 2016-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passion, excitement, and compromises the act provokes. Meisel builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos. He uses examples from literature, philosophy, painting, graphic art, science, linguistics, music, and film, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. Discussions of Sophocles, Plato, Lucretius, Calderon, Milton, Haydn, Blake, Faraday, Chekhov, Faulkner, Wells, and Beckett, among others, are matched with incisive readings of art by Brueghel, Rubens, Goya, Turner, Dix, Dada, and the futurists. Meisel addresses the revolution in mapping energy and entropy and the manifold effect of thermodynamics. He then uses this chaotic frame to elaborate on purpose, mortality, meaning, and mind.
