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 of Content

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

About the author

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).