Six authors - two fine artists, a dancer, a creative writer, a designer and a philosopher - participate in the first systematic reading of Gilles Deleuze's mature philosophy through the lens of creative practice. For arts practitioners, this book provides a way to engage creatively with the ideas of Deleuze; for philosophers, it maintains a rigorous relationship to Deleuze's texts including Difference and Repetition and A Thousand Plateaus, and demonstrates how to engage conceptually with arts practitioners.
Practising with Deleuze is focused around key aspects of production: forming, framing, experiencing, encountering and practising. These multiple dialogues reflect the engagement of contemporary creative practices with the generative philosophy of Deleuze.
About the Author: Suzie Attiwill is Associate Professor of Interior Design and deputy dean of Learning & Teaching, RMIT University School of Architecture and Design. She also has an independent practice that involves the design of exhibitions, curatorial work, writing and collaborating on a range of interdisciplinary projects in Australia and overseas. She is a founding member of the Urban Interior Laboratory and the current executive editor of the IDEA Journal (2014-2016). She has contributed to a number of journals mainly on interior design and architecture.
Terri Bird is an artist and a Senior Lecturer in the Fine Art Department at MADA, Monash University. She has published essays on the artworks of Ardi Gunawan, Bianca Hester and Fiona Abicare.
Andrea Eckersley is a Lecturer in Fashion Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. She recently completed a PhD in Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University. Andrea is the art editor at the Deleuze Studies journal and exhibits regularly in Australia.
Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, transformation, ethical capacity, thought, movement and joy. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009- ), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You'll Feel was published in 2019 with Rabbit Poets Series and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award (2020). She is co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Badiou's Deleuze (Acumen 2012). He is the co-author of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage II (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-editor of a number of volumes on 20th-century French thought.
Philipa Rothfield is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She writes on philosophy of the body largely in relation to dance. She is interested in the work of Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Klossowski and Deleuze, to see what each of these philosophers can bring to dance and also to see what dance brings to philosophy.
