Deleuze/Guattari have developed a concept of the abstract machine in which the machines appear neither as universals nor as ideals; rather, they are to be understood in terms of the assembly, transformation, and combination of connections on a plane of …
Invited by EXPRESSION art gallery, artist and curator William Jourdain aka Automatisme presents the collective digital art exhibition Les paysages autres from June 10th to September 10th 2023. For this multi-faceted exhibition that took almost four years to be shaped, …
Les paysages autres – An art exhibition on how to expand and remix the details of nature.
Click & GlitchWith Deleuze or Boulez, we can speak of rhythm in terms of transversal disjunction or non-periodic clicked music. When we listen to a piece, we always hear other things, which Deleuze describes as forces, duration, sensation, and lightness, …
Click & Glitch Mit Deleuze oder Boulez können wir vom Rhythmus im Sinne einer transversalen Disjunktion oder einer nicht-periodischen geklickten Musik sprechen. Wenn wir ein Stück hören, hören wir immer auch andere Dinge, die Deleuze als Kräfte, Dauer, Empfindung und …
Editor’s Note: This piece, written by several authors, oscillates between plural and singular voices, with the intended effect of collaging three perspectives together in a unified décollage. “I’ll never forget the time I went to Dimes Cafe at 4 am …
Negative Being The Body-without-Organs (BwO) is like the Tao, in that it just about always escapes definition, always evading the words. In simple terms, it is like a sheet of white paper. In more complex terms it is like “union” …
On Bodies, Musical Bodies, Dancing Bodies, and Bodies without Organs
“If there is a modern age, it is, of course, the age of the cosmic.” (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus) Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) are among the few contemporary thinkers who incorporate cosmological questioning into their …
The word minimalism, at some point, became lost. As many editorials have expressed, “minimal” became a dirty word from its attachment to a trend that occurred in the mid 2000s, particularly in Berlin, where a ‘new minimalist’ movement emerges from …
Non-Music Part II: On Minimalism, Affects and the Martial Art of Defensive Tripping
Wo beginnt der Stereoeffekt, der Punkt, an dem die Hi-Fi-Anlage so unbrauchbar raffiniert wird, dass die Musik in der Besessenheit von ihrer Wiedergabetreue verloren geht? Wo ist der Punkt, an dem das Soziale so nutzlos ausgefeilt wird, dass es selbst …
Part I: Non-Music, (N)Ontology, and Distinguishing Bubbles. It is important to remember from the offset that ‘non’ is not identical to ‘anti’ or ‘counter’, for example, ‘non-philosophy’ is not an ‘anti-philosophy’ in the sense of Badiou, although his work on …
Like advertising, fashion, and cinema before it, music rules today as a dominant ideogram of power. Not a reflection of a serious materialist power which emanates elsewhere and that precedes it, music is a real ruling laboratory of the age …
What is Rhythm? What is Rhythm? Rhythm is a temporally extended pattern in which information-transmitting processes take place. It can be described by the following parameters: spatial (distance, movement, neighbourhood), temporal (speed, limit of human perception, infinite time scales versus …