E-grāmata: concepts: a travelogue

In this bold collection, Bernd Herzogenrath has gathered together an extraordinary cadre of global authors to explore concept creation, a legacy that the oeuvre of Deleuze and Guattari has left us with. As a travelogue, it is a call to the field to decenter its Western Philosophical bias of English as the lingua franca, and to grasp a media philosophy that infiltrates thought where materiality is always in play. The 33 essays explore the relays between philosophy, art and science, creating interesting, remarkable, and important concepts that open up new worlds and vistas. * Jan Jagodzinski, Professor, Visual Art and Media Education, University of Alberta, Canada * This book carves out a space for the multiplicity of concepts, offering a contribution not only to philosophy and media theory, but also to the cultural politics of academia: whose language are we writing in? Against the hegemony of Anglo-American language and the standardized format of writing the global academia is meant to be pressed in the joyful encounters between languages are here one contribution to the on-going task of decolonizing the expressive qualities of thinking. * Jussi Parikka, Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark, and FAMU, Czech Republic * If concepts are a form of seeing-technology that helps us to see the world anew, then what could be more intellectually stimulating and enriching than a veritable smorgasbord of concepts gathered from all over the world? This is a truly remarkable multi-lingual collection of concepts that read together generates both resonance and noise as the world is seen through their coruscating light. * Ian Buchanan, Professor Critical Theory, University of Wollongong, Australia *