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Author:   Alistair Macaulay ,  Timothy Deane-Freeman ,  Antonia Pont
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031979682

ISBN 10:   3031979680
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   29 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Challenge of Artistic Agency.- Chapter 2: Bacon and Deleuze on the Act of Painting: The Expression of Painterly Intentions and the Formation of Forms.- Chapter 3: Colour as Force.- Chapter 4: The Problematics of Art and Agency in the Field of Dance.- Chapter 5: Intentionality Without Ends and the “As-If” Agent: Reading Klossowski’s Nietzsche Alongside Practising Theory.- Chapter 6: Artistic Agency: An East-West Dialogue.- Chapter 7: Making Music Stutter: Reconstructing Jazz Improvisation Between Derrida and Deleuze.- Chapter 8: The Corporealisation of Language Through the Body of Music: Revisitng Barthes’s “Musica Practica”.- Chapter 9: The Aesthetic Underground: Alain Badiou’s Collective Subject in Art.- Chapter 10: Embedded Rupture: Castoriadis on Creating the New.-  Chapter 11: “I’ve Led a War Against the Aesthetic”—Laruelle and Artistic Agency.- Chapter 12: Hybrid Artistic Agency: Experiment and Reflection with Creative AI.- Chapter 13: Informatic Agency: Feedback and Control in Norbert Weiner and Jimi Hendrix.

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Alistair Macaulay is a scholar working across multiple universities in Melbourne, Australia. His research concerns the intersection between art and philosophy, publishing on the significance of improvisation. Timothy Deane-Freeman is Associate Lecturer of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. His research is primarily dedicated to the intersection of politics and aesthetics. He is the author of Deleuze, Digital Media and Thought (2024). Antonia Pont is Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Australia. She is the author of A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2021).

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