Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze's work. These 14 essays apply Deleuze'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.

Establishes new approaches for future readings of animality in Deleuze across a variety of fields. Makes Deleuze contemporary and relevant for arguably one of the most crucial and foregrounded fields in philosophy: human-animal studies in the age of the Anthropocene. Contributors include John Q Maoilearca, Charles Stivale and Joanna Bednarek.

About the Author
Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies in the departments of Art, Film and Media Studies, the History of Art and Architecture, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474422741
Author Colin Gardner
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press