In a nutshell, deleuze tries to explain how the logic behind senses that we describe in everyday parlance like common sense or making sense. Pdf gilles deleuze s logic of sense download full pdf. Pdf deleuze gilles francis bacon the logic of sensation. The painter francis bacon and the philosopher gilles deleuze agree with heraclitus. Its formulation was continued in their followup work, a thousand plateaus. There are six chairs imitating a forest arranged around a raised platform where a figure. Deleuzes section of this book is pretty good he develops his theory that sadism and masochism are not two sides of the same coin, but separate pathologies er, separate technologies of subversion. Reading the logic of sensation and getting a preliminary acquaintance with deleuzes unique perspective on philosophy, art and life, through the lectures in class and the variety of commentaries read for the writing of this paper, has opened intriguing windows and vistas. The current french edition contains only seven color plates. The way that bacon paints, the way that deleuze writes, and the concept of the logic of sensation connect in a complex rhythmic relation an already rich accumulation and coagu lation of. The book presents a deep engagement with bacons work and the nature of art.
Pdf on jan 11, 2018, jon bialecki and others published deleuze find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Deleuzes book on francis bacon remains his largest and most profound study of pictorial art. Sep 22, 2012 click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. The logic of sensation supplementary plates the first french edition is in two volumes. The logic of sensation demons and beefcake the other side of bacon sadomasochism and shoplifting sprees. Deleuze logic of the sensation free download as pdf file.
Deleuze creates in the logic of sensation a series of philosophical concepts, each of which not only relates to a particular aspect of bacons paintings but also finds a place in a general logic of sensation. I will conclude this analysis with my own assessment of bacon and deleuze s thoughts and present two reasons as to why bacon provides an enthralling understanding of the nature of. If difference and repetition concerns itself with ontology, the logic of sense turns instead to logic, language, discourse, meaning, and the paradoxes between sense and nonsense. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. This is the first critical study of the logic of sense, gilles deleuzes most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source of his vital philosophy of the event. Religion, politics, and ontology a series edited by creston davis, philip goodchild, and kenneth surin. Deleuze believes that numerous autonomous time modes coexist and operate at different levels and with varying degrees of intensity, thus creating unexpected effects bialecki. It was an argument since the time of aristotle and also, it was the beginning of the mark of difference between humans and animals. Deleuzes theses about painting in general, and about bacon in particular. Deleuzes and guattaris personnages conceptuel has affiliations with messiaens personnages rqthmiquc. The problem with classical empiricism and kant, according to deleuze, is that it assumes receptivity already has a constituted form and is therefore. Columbia university press, 1990 logique du sens, minuit, 1969galloway reading notes context and general notes the logic of sense, along with difference and repetition, represents the culmination of the first phase of deleuzes work on core philosophy, which roughly coincides with the decade of the. Deleuzes work on the painter francis bacon is one such book. The logic of sensation is his longawaited work on bacon,widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the twentieth century.
We have preferred personaand personaeto character and characters in order to empha. This allows me to show the eminent role of forces movement beneath the soil of visibility in the work of deleuze, which he inherits from. Deleuze s concept of the logic of sensation resonates with bacons painting practice including bacons own commentary on that practice in sylvester 1987. Paul patton brings together an outstanding collection of appraisals by french and englishspeaking scholars of gilles deleuze 19251995, one of the most important postwar french philosophers.
The logic of sensation in this paper i will look at three primary ways deleuze analyzes the works of francis bacon. For a serious critique of psychoanalysis, the logic of sense is the book to go to, not antioedipus. I will conclude this analysis with my own assessment of bacon and deleuzes thoughts and present two reasons as to why bacon provides an enthralling understanding of the nature of. Oct 19, 2009 summary notes from gilles deleuzes francis bacon. Dealer snatched bacon paintings away deleuze, gilles. Schizoanalysis acquires many different definitions during the course of its. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body.
The logic of sensation likewise creates a series of philosophical concepts, each of which relates to a particular aspect of bacons paintings, but which also find a place in a general logic of sensation. In particular, the book will analyze the way in which deleuze grounds this assertion by establishing a relation, the precise nature of which will be seen below, between the works representative of. While philosophy creates concepts, the arts create novel qualitative combinations of sensation and feeling what deleuze calls percepts and affects, and the sciences create quantitative theories based on fixed points of reference such as the speed of light or absolute zero which deleuze calls functives. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the place. Deleuze analyzes the distinctive innovations that came to mark. Deleuzes book is really about sensation itself, or rather, a notion of sensation that is not a kind of procedural, kantian containersensation. Understanding deleuzeextends to the reader deleuzes own invitation to think differently about cultural studies. Considered one of the most important works of one of frances foremost philosophers, and longawaited in english, the logic of sense begins with an extended exegesis of lewis carrolls alice in wonderland. Results 91 of discover book depositorys huge selection of gilles deleuze books online. Kwinter eds, incorporations, zone books, new york, pp. Bacons legacy revisited disputed bacon artworks go on display disturbed ground. Five paintings of francis bacon are used to illustrate deleuzes notion of meat more lucidly, the paintings thus. Francis bacon, traumatic memory and the gothic diving deep into darkness. Although already well known at the time, bacon was hardly a canonical painter and was.
The first volume contained deleuze s essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons. Logic of sensation michigan technological university. Simon duffy logic of expression quality, quantity and. The logic of sensation the issue humans are rational animals and all nonhumans are nonra tional animals. Gilles deleuze had several paintings by francis bacon hanging in his paris apartment, and the painters method and style as well as his motifs of seriality. Jan 01, 2010 if you think childlike, youll stay young. Joshua ramey the hermetic deleuze philosophy and spiritual ordeal. While a phenomenological response to deleuzes philosophy is clearly needed, i show in this article how an approach taken in a recent paper by christian lotz proves inadequate. Smith university of minnesota press, 2005 ump amazon the cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Rachel fensham monash university, australia reference deleuze, gilles 1992, mediators in j. There are many quotable passages of pellucid prose that render the work more approachable and intimate, giving one the sense the philosopher owned some of the great painters work and had spent many well rewarded hours in their indelible company. Deleuzes main thesis, as expressed in logic of sensation as i see it is twofold. Deleuzes main thesis, as expressed in logic of sensation, as i see it, is twofold. As this passage demonstrates, contrary to baughs reading that holds that for deleuze sensation is the ultimate ground of metaphysics, sensation is itself something that must be accounted for.
I think many readers of deleuze get caught up in deleuze s originality and forget that he didnt try to describe a completely new system of everything, but rather wanted to describe more precisely the logic of a creative ontology. But by using prime examples from carrolls alice in wonderland, he goes on to say at least buyer beware. Logic of sensation 1991 and pierre klossowskis nietzsche and the vicious circle forthcoming. Gilles deleuze 192595 was a prolific french philosopher best known for his 1968 magnum opus difference and repetition deleuze 1994, which developed an approach to metaphysics derived from a. I read francis bacon, the logic of sensation from the perspective of the heraclitean flux. Carl raschke at the university of denver on the first half of gilles deleuze s logic of sense. Reprint from art history after deleuze and guattari isbn 978 94 6270 115 1 leuven university press, 2017 art history ater deleuze and guattari reprint. The first volume contained deleuzes essay, while the second volume consisted exclusively of fullpage reproductions of bacons. In general, deleuze will locate the conditions of sensibility in an intensive conception of space and a virtual. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the place where sense and. Pdf engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of spinoza presented by gilles deleuze in expressionism in philosophy 1968.
Seminar on deleuzes logic of sense, part 1 youtube. Greco is a pho tographer and freelance translator based in paris. Lotz argues that through deleuzes refusal to accept the place of representation in art. Deleuzes concept of the logic of sensation resonates with bacons painting practice including bacons own commentary on that practice in sylvester 1987. The logic of sensation by gilles deleuze translated by daniel w. Translators introduction deleuzes philosophical approach to the arts philosophy is an activity that consists in the creation or invention of concepts. Deleuze s phenomenological interpretation of bacons work is stunningly lucid and insightful. Deleuzes and guattaris personnages conceptuel has affiliations with messiaens personnages rqthmiquc, which brian massumi translates as rhythmic characters in gilles deleuze and felixguattari, a thousand plateaus london.
Gilles deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the twentieth century. Logic of expression quality, quantity and intensity in spinoza, hegel and deleuze. A number of these pieces address deleuzes original interpretations of key figures in the history of philosophy, including spinoza, kant, hegel and bergson. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, youre gunna stay young. Representation or sensation a critique of deleuzes. In it, deleuze creates a series of philosophical concepts, each of which relates to a particular aspect of bacons paintings but at the same time finds a place in the general logic of sensation. The logic of sensation is the record of deleuzes confrontation with the work of the irishborn british painter francis bacon 190992. Here he meditates upon the art work of francis bacon, firmly identifying with his paitiing the kind of becomings that exemplify his nietzschian philosophy of movement, non.
Nov 10, 2016 an analysis of gilles deleuzes francis bacon. Deleuze gilles francis bacon the logic of sensation. The aim of this present study is above all to examine and clarify the complex way in which deleuze asserts the ontological priority of events over substances in his 1969 work, the logic of sense. Abstractdeleuzes philosophy of painting can be seen to pose certain challenges to a phenomenological approach to philosophy. Merleauponty, deleuze, and the question singular 21 logic of sensation.
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