Michel Foucault once suggested that the twentieth-century would be known as 'Deleuzian'; certainly, in the field of contemporary art, this prediction appears to have been accurate. But what, we might ask, is at stake in this take up of Deleuze and Guattari's thought? What are its limits and its possibilities? Deleuze and Contemporary Art addresses these questions in presenting a series of experimental and explorative inflections on the 'and' of the book's title.

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art: An Introduction, Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke; I - Politics; 1. The Politics of the Scream in a Threnody, Gustavo Chirolla Ospina; 2. A Shift Towards the Unnameable, Suely Rolnik; 3. The Heterogenesis of Fleeing, Gerald Raunig; 4. Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique, Stephen Zepke; II - The Aesthetic Paradigm; 5. Capitalism and Schizophrenia and Consensus. Of Relational Aesthetics, Eric Alliez; 6. The Practice and Anti-dialectical Thought of an 'Anartist', Maurizio Lazzarato; 7. Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?, Jussi Parikka, 8. Fractal Philosophy (and the small matter of learning how to listen): Attunement as the Task of Art, Johnny Golding; III - Scenes and Encounters; 9. An Art Scene as Big as the Ritz: the Logic of Scenes, David Burrows; 10. Abstract Humour, Humorous Abstraction, Robert Garnett; 11. From Aesthetics to the Abstract Machine: Deleuze, Guattari, and Contemporary Art Practice, Simon O'Sullivan; 12. Traps Against Capture, Edgar Schmitz; IV - Technologies; 13. Sign and Information: on Anestis Logothetis' Graphical Notations, Claudia Mongini; 14. Anti-Electra: Totemism and Schizogamy, Elisabeth von Samsonow; 15. Unimaginable Happenings: Material Movements in the Plane of Composition, Barbara Bolt; 16. BLOODCRYSTALPOLLENSTAR, Neil Chapman and Ola Stahl; Notes on Contributors; Index.