Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon : The Birth of Form

del Río, Elena

Edinburgh University Press（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399554770

Full Description

Both Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by Simondon's ideas on individuation as process, and by other major figures of process philosophy such as Raymond Ruyer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Brian Massumi, Elena del Rio delves deep into Viola's art and finds a politics of nature that is also a politics of the affects. In taking full account of the interrelation between collective affects and living milieus, this politics exceeds the still anthropocentric project of a politics reductively focused on environmental degradation.

The book works with a broad concept of ecology that encompasses a nature-culture continuum - from Simondon's associated milieu to Guattari's tripartite ecological praxis, from Deleuze and Guattari's existential territories to Massumi's affective events. Attending to this nature-culture continuum and activating our collective energies are prime strategies in tackling the overwhelming psycho-social and environmental crises we face.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert Simondon

Part I: Nature's Gestures
1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum
2. Artful Politics of Nature

Intermezzo: Video and the Digital Convergence

Part II: More-than-Human Ecologies
3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come
4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion
5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation
6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal Cinema

Coda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forward

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