S. O’Sullivan 
Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari 
Thought Beyond Representation

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics – an aesthetics of affect – and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts – the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc. – and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or ‘outside’ of representation – Simon O’Sullivan takes Deleuze’s thought into other milieus, allowing these ‘possible worlds’ to work back on philosophy.

Table of Content

Introduction: Three Beginnings Rhizomes, Machines, Multiplicities and Maps: Manifesto for an Expanded Art Practice (Beyond Representation) The Ethicoaesthetics of Affect and the Bloc of Sensations: Reaffirming the Specificity of Art (Against Representation) Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity From Geophilosophy to Geoaesthetics: The Virtual and The Plane of Immanence vs. Mirror Travel and The Spiral Jetty From Possible Worlds to Future Folds: Abstracts, Situationist Cities and the Baroque in Art Conclusion: Three Endings

About the author

SIMON O’SULLIVAN is Lecturer in Art History/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He has published widely in the area of aesthetics and art theory, including articles in
Parallax, Angelaki and
Pli. This is his first monograph.