S. O’Sullivan 
On the Production of Subjectivity 
Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation

This book offers a series of critical commentaries on, and forced encounters between, different thinkers. At stake in this philosophical and psychoanalytical enquiry is the drawing of a series of diagrams of the finite/infinite relation, and the mapping out of the contours for a speculative and pragmatic production of subjectivity.

Table des matières

List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Contemporary Conditions and Diagrammatic Trajectory From Joy to the Gap: The Accessing of the Infinite by the Finite (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson) The Care of the Self versus the Ethics of Desire: Two Diagrams of the Production of Subjectivity (and of the Subject’s Relation to Truth) (Foucault versus Lacan) The Aesthetic Paradigm: From the Folding of the Finite-Infinite Relation to Schizoanalytic Metamodelisation (to Biopolitics) (Guattari) The Strange Temporality of the Subject: Life In-between the Infinite and the Finite (Deleuze contra Badiou) Desiring-Machines, Chaoids, Probeheads: Towards a Speculative Production of Subjectivity (Deleuze and Guattari) Conclusion: Composite Diagram and Relations of Adjacency Bibliography Index

A propos de l’auteur

Simon O’Sullivan is Reader in Art Theory and Practice at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the author of
Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (2005),  co-editor, with Stephen Zepke, of
Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (2008) and
Deleuze and Contemporary Art (2010) and co-author, with Jorella Andrews, of 
Visual Cultures as…Objects and Affects (2013).