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Book SynopsisThese 14 essays apply Deleuze and Guattari's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Undoing Anthropocentrism: Becoming-Animal and the Non-Human; 1. Ahuman Abolition by Patricia MacCormack; 2. Brutal Thoughts: Laruelle and Deleuze on Human Animal Stupidity by John Q Maoilearca; 3. The Oedipal Animal? Companion Species and Becoming by Joanna Bednarek; Part 2: Vectors of Becoming-Imperceptible: the Multiplicity of the Pack; 4. Louis Malle's Kleistian War Machine: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Imperceptible in Black Moon (1975) by Colin Gardner; 5. Ant and Empire: Myrmetic Writing, Simulation, and the Problem of Reciprocal Becomings" by Zach Horton; 6. Music-becoming-animal in works by Grisey, Aperghis and Levinas by Edward Campbell; 7. Un/Becoming Claude Cahun: Zigzagging in a Pack by Renee C. Hoogland; Part 3: Animal Politics, Animal Death: Transversal Connectivities and the Creation of an Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm; 8. Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari through Metamodelization: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us About Animal Politics by Colin Gardner; 9. Becoming-shewolf and ethics of solidarity in Once Upon a Time: Feminist and posthumanist re-assembling of Little Red Riding Hood by Nur Ozgenalp; 10. Hannibal aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres by Charles Stivale; 11. The Unmournable Animal Death by Laurence Rickels Part 4: Animal Re-territorializations in Art and Cinema; 12. Five Meditations on How to Make a Territory with the Work of Art? by Gregg Lambert; 13. Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative by Dennis Rothermel; 14. Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable and Godard's Adieu au langage"by Ronald Bogue Part 5: Transverse Animalities: Ecosophical Becomings; 15. Interkingdoms of Alcohol: Interspecies Assemblages, Sobriety, and Intoxication by Gary Genosko; 16. Becoming-Wolf: From Wolfman to the Tree Huggers of Turkey" by Serazer Pekerman.
