From Chaos to Creation: Deleuze, Francis Bacon, 'On Painting', and 'The Logic of Sensation' with Charles J. Stivale

What happens when the painter’s hand breaks free from the eye,
and chaos reorganizes the entire field of vision? In this episode
of Acid Horizon, we join Charles Stivale, translator of On
Painting and The Logic of Sense, to explore Gilles Deleuze’s rare
1981 seminar on painting. Together we trace how concepts like
catastrophe, diagram, and modulation emerge from Deleuze’s live
philosophical “laboratory” and feed into his landmark work
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Along the way, we uncover
the historical, conceptual, and translational stakes of bringing
this dynamic moment in Deleuze’s thought into English for the
first time.


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Link to the seminar: Painting and the Question of Concepts,
https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/seminar/painting-and-question-concepts/


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