ASAP: Philosophy and Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
1987 Fall
- A positive exercise in the affirmative, “nomad” thought called for in its companion volume, Anti-Oedipus. This series of essays address war and death, territoriality and the anthropology of groups, model theory, and psychosis.
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Kafka
Toward a Minor Literature
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
1986 Fall
- Instead of interpreting Kafka’s work according to pre-existing categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within.
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Cinema 1
The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze
1986 Fall
- A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
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The Postmodern Condition
A Report on Knowledge
Jean-François Lyotard
1984 Spring
- This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge-science, technology, and the arts-has undergone a change of status since the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s.