Deleuze, Digital Media and Thought (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies)

Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze’s remarks about the digital to reveal both their origins and implications. In so doing, we encounter a position which is fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, digital techniques are intimately related to what Deleuze calls ‘societies of control’, which deploy them in order to close down potential spaces of creativity and resistance. On the other, digital images take up the mantle of cinema, displacing habitual forms of cognition and forcing us to think in new ways. Deane-Freeman traces these dual impulses through the images of cinema, television and social media, as well as explicating key Deleuzian concepts, including virtuality, immanence and the outside. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: An Art of the Unseen 1 Where is the Outside? 2 The Image and the Out-of-Field 3 A Politics of the Out-of-Field 4 The Digital Image 5 Cybernetic Information 6 Inland Empire 7 Art and the Digital Conclusion: The Digital Outside Bibliography Index