Tag: deleuze

Eric Dean Rasmussen explores Lynne Tillman's "cognitive aesthetic," suggesting that her work is powered by the generative disconnect between asignifying affect and signifying emotion. He argues that her 1998 novel, No Lease on Life, examines the role of affectively sustained universal values in responding politically to the neoliberal city.

Stephen Hawkins engages with the "web of counterintuitive, paradoxical, contentious and yet important claims" that he identifies in
Gilles Deleuze's Proust and Signs.

Linda Marie Walker writes an involved meditation on the concept of the interface and its relation to place.

Steven Shaviro reviews Shelley Jackson's Half Life, the first print-based novel by a pioneering hypertextualist.

Yves Abrioux approaches Woman and Men (1987) as an extended novelistic medition on cognition and action.

Kiki Benzon on narrative ecology and the "fradulence paradox" of Oblivion.

Alex Reid examines a cross-section of essays in Prefiguring Cyberculture, a work that historicizes the future as neither alarmist nor utopian.

Joseph Tabbi reviews Joe Conte's Design and Debris and gauges the argument for chaotics-as-aesthetics across media.

Martin Rosenberg discusses Kiki Smith's feminist visual art and cognitive science.

Linda Brigham reviews Incorporations, the most recent collection from Zone Books.