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Deleuze and Guattari: Aesthetics and Politics
Author(s): Robert Porter (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 25 Jun. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708321593
- ISBN-13: 9780708321591
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between aesthetics and politics based on the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (1925 1995) and Pierre-Felix Guattari (1930 1992), most famous for their collaborative works “Anti-Oedipus” (1972) and “A Thousand Plateaus” (1980). Porter analyses the relationship between art and social-political life and considers in what ways the aesthetic and political connect to each other. Deleuze and Guattari believed that political theory can have aesthetic form and that vice versa, the arts can be thought to be forms of political theory. Deleuze and Guattari force us to confront the idea that ‘art’, the things we call language, literature, painting and architecture, always has the potential to be political because naming, or language-use, implies a shaping or ordering of the ‘political’ as such, rather than its re-presentation.
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About the Author
Dr Robert Porter is Lecturer in the Media Studies Research Institute at the University of Ulster.
