Paul Ardoin (editor) - Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

Series Editors

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

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Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism ,

edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Edited by

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

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Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison, 2014

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Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism / edited by S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, Laci Mattison.

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1. Deleuze, Gilles, 19251995Criticism and interpretation. 2. Modernism (Aesthetics) 3. LiteraturePhilosophy. I. Gontarski, S. E., editor of compilation. II. Ardoin, Paul, editor of compilation. III. Mattison, Laci, editor of compilation.

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Contents

Marco Altamirano teaches in the philosophy department at Louisiana State University. His research pursues questions concerning time, nature, society, science, and technology. He is currently working on a book on Deleuze and the philosophy of nature for Edinburgh University Press.

Paul Ardoin is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a doctoral candidate at the University of Antwerp. He is one of the general editors of the Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series, and his work appears or is forthcoming in Studies in the Novel; Critique; Philosophy and Literature; LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory ; and the Journal of Modern Literature .

Nadine Boljkovac (PhD, Cambridge, 2010) is author of Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), co-editor of Deleuze and Affect , and has published in Deleuze Studies, Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture , and Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text . Most recently the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Pembroke Fellow at Brown University, her new book project, Beyond Self and Screen , explores womens self-portraiture through art, film, and philosophy.

Patrick M. Bray is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at the Ohio State University. He has published articles on Paul Virilio, Marcel Proust, Gilles Deleuze, and others. His first book, The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013), explores how maps in the novels of Stendhal, Sand, Nerval, Zola, and Proust provide a figure of the self in space and time. His next book project, The Price of Literature , examines the role of theory in the novel, as literature attempts to define its own worth.

Ian Buchanan is director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research at the University of Wollongong. He is founder and editor of the international journal Deleuze Studies and also editor of multiple book series: Deleuze Connections , Critical Connections , Plateaus , and Deleuze Encounters . He is author of Deleuzism: A Metacommentary (Duke University Press, 2000), Deleuze and Guattaris Anti-Oedipus (Continuum, 2008), Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (Continuum, 2006), Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist (Sage, 2000). He has also co-edited many books on Deleuze.

Claire Colebrook is professor of English literature at Penn State University. She is the author of New Literary Histories (Manchester University Press, 1997), Ethics and Representation (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 1997), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002), Understanding Deleuze (Allen and Unwin, 2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska University Press, 2002), Gender (Palgrave, 2003), Irony (Routledge, 2004), Milton, Evil and Literary History (Continuum 2008), Deleuze and the Meaning of Life (Continuum, 2010), and William Blake and Digital Aesthetics (Continuum, 2011). She co-authored Theory and the Disappearing Future with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller (Routledge, 2011), and co-edited Deleuze and Feminist Theory with Ian Buchanan (Edinburgh University Press, 2000), Deleuze and History with Jeff Bell (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Deleuze and Gender with Jami Weinstein (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and Deleuze and Law (Palgrave) with Rosi Braidotti and Patrick Hanafin. She has written articles on visual culture, poetry, literary theory, queer theory, and contemporary culture. She is completing a book on human extinction.

Garin Dowd is professor of film and literature at the University of West London. His publications include Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari (Rodopi, 2007), Leos Carax (Manchester University Press, 2003, co-author with Fergus Daly) and, as editor (with Lesley Stevenson and Jeremy Strong), Genre Matters (Intellect Books, 2006).

Aden Evens is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. His research addresses formal symbolic systems, measuring their epistemological and ontological weight. He is completing a monograph on the constraints to creativity imposed by digital technologies and has begun research toward his next book on the uses of mathematics in philosophical and literary contexts. Aden also continues to pursue questions around music and technology, which was the subject of his 2005 book, Sound Ideas . He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, which makes it easy to walk to work but hard to get to an airport.

S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. His most recent books are Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism (ed. with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison), Bloomsbury, 2013. His critical, bilingual edition of Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desire was published as Un tram che si chiama desiderio / A Streetcar Named Desire in the series Canone teatrale europeo / Canon of European Drama from Edizioni ETS in Pisa, 2012; he has also edited The Beckett Critical Reader: Archives, Theories, and Translations and The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts , both from Edinburgh University Press, 2012 and 2014, respectively; and a revised edition of his On Beckett: Essays and Criticism has appeared from Anthem Press, 2013. He is general editor of the following book series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism (with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison) from Bloomsbury, Anthem Studies in Drama and Performance from Anthem Press, London, and Other Becketts from Edinburgh University Press.