Anne Sauvagnargues - Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon

ARTMACHINES

ARTMACHINES

Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon

Anne Sauvagnargues

Translated by Suzanne Verderber with Eugene W. Holland

Introduction by Gregory Flaxman

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Anne Sauvagnargues, 2016
Preface and English translation Suzanne Verderber and Eugene W. Holland, 2016
Introduction Gregory Flaxman, 2016

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Deleuze et les cartographies du style, Les styles de Deleuze, ed. Adnen Jdey (Brussels: Les impressions nouvelles, 2011), 15782. The English translation included in this volume originally appeared as: Cartographies of Style: Asignifying, Intensive, Impersonal, Qui Parle 23:1 (Fall/Winter 2014), 21338. Reproduced by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.

Diagnostic et construction de Concepts, La gophilosophie de Gilles Deleuze, entre esthtiques et politiques, ed. M. Carbone, P. Broggi and L. Turarbek (Milan and Paris: Mimesis, Vrin, 2012), 2746.

Ecologie des images et machines dart, Pourparlers: Deleuze entre art et philosophie, ed. Fabrice Bourlez and Vinciguerra Lorenzo (Rheims: Presses Universitaires de Rheims, 2013), 16582.

Le concept de modulation chez Gilles Deleuze et lapport de Simondon lesthtique deleuzienne, Concepts (January 2002), 16599, Special Issue on Deleuze. Reproduced with thanks to Sils Maria.

Limage, Deleuze, Bergson et le cinma, Limage, ed. Alexander Schnell (Paris: Vrin, 2007), 15776. Le sujet cinmatographique, de larc sensorimoteur la voyance, CINMAS, Revue dtudes cinmatographiques/ Journal of Film Studies 16:23 (2006), 96114. Reproduced by permission of Vrin publishers, Paris.

La table des catgories comme table de montage, Gilles Deleuze et les images, ed. Franois Dosse and Jean-Michel Frodon (Paris: Cahiers du Cinma, INA, 2008), 11728.

Ritournelles des temps, Chimeres 79 (July 2013), 4459.

Guattari: Un cavalier schizoanalytique sur le plateau du jeu dchecs politique, Multitudes 34, Leffet Guattari (2008), 3040. Previous English translation: A Schizoanalytic Knight on the Chessboard of Politics, The Guattari Effect, ed. ric Alliez and Andrew Goffey (London and New York: Continuum, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011), 17285.

Les symptmes sont des oiseaux qui cognent du bec contre la fentre, Chimeres 72 (2010), 99113.

Previously unpublished.

Machines, comment a marche? Chimres 77 (2012), 3546.

Machines dsirantes, 5 articles, published online in 2007, at http://jeancletmartin.blog.fr

Visiagit, 3 articles, published online in 2007, at http://jeancletmartin.blog.fr

Works by Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari

Works by Gilles Deleuze

Works by Flix Guattari

Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon contains thirteen essays by French philosopher Anne Sauvagnargues, only two of which have previously appeared in English. Unlike Sauvagnarguess previous collection, Deleuze and Art, published in France in 2005 and in English in 2013, Artmachines is not a translation of a collection first published in France. This unique collection came about through my fortuitous encounter with Sauvagnargues in Lisbon, at a Deleuze Studies conference and seminar. Listening to Sauvagnargues teach, I realised that her work addressed a philosophical problem I had faced in my own historical research on medieval subjectivity: how do we analyse individuated forms of subjectivity without simultaneously presupposing the existence of an individual, in other words, without presupposing the existence of that which we are purporting to explain? How do we speak of the emergence of any individualised entity as a process, rather than as a fait accompli or as a substance endowed with essence? In a sort of flash of regret coupled with excitement (I had already published my study) I realised that Sauvagnargues was creating the philosophy I needed for the historical questions I was trying to pose. Through a redeployment and transformation of the concepts of Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, and those of a wide range of other thinkers, Sauvagnargues positions any individuation, human or otherwise, as transitory and as occurring on a plane of actualisation that is always set in relation to a virtual plane of immanence. This has the implication of making us see that any individuation is dynamic, provisional and subject to time and becoming. Perceiving the originality and usefulness of this approach, I expressed as much to Sauvagnargues, along with the offer to translate her work into English to make it more widely available. Within weeks she had sent me at least twenty essays, from which we selected the thirteen contained in the present volume.

Be forewarned. Artmachines begins in medias res. In the three essays , Individuation on Three Planes: Literature, Philosophy, Art, Sauvagnargues projects us immediately onto the plane of immanence and shows how this repositioning transforms basic assumptions about literature, language, art, history and philosophy. The most immediate effect of this change in position is the falling away of habitual anchors of thought: in literature and art, that of the human author or artist viewed as a genius standing behind a work that in turn is seen to be a representation of reality; in philosophy and history, the assumption that a cause floating above historical and social conditions teleologically orients development; and again in art, the assumption that art exists on a spiritual plane separate from biological and technical modes of production.