Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series Stephen Zepke will be delivering the lecture entitled "Aesthetic Autonomy and Autonomist Aesthetics: Art and Life in Guattari".
Felix Guattari's 'Aesthetic paradigm' collapses the Modernist opposition of the autonomous art work and the avant-garde assimilation of art into life. For Guattari, the art-work is an autonomous aesthetic production whose alterity escapes capitalist subsumption, to embark on an autopoiesis creating new possibilities for life. Thus art offers a new and perhaps unlikely model for the production of subjectivity and the radical political tradition of Autonomia, a model that nevertheless challenges current assumptions underlying both contemporary art and the 'autonomous' left.
STEPHEN ZEPKE
Independent researcher living in Vienna. he is the author of "Art as Abstract Machine, Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari" (Routledge, 2005), and the co-editor with Simon O'Sullivan of" Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New" (Continuum, 2008), and "Deleuze and Contemporary Art" (EUP, 2010).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Dec 2009 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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