ESAA09 Deleuze and Art

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2026
Rozsah
1/1/1. 5 kr. Doporučované ukončení: k. Jiná možná ukončení: zk.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
prof. Dr. phil. Jakub Mácha, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Dr. phil. Jakub Mácha, Ph.D.
Seminář estetiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: prof. Dr. phil. Jakub Mácha, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Seminář estetiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Čt 14:00–15:40 K24, kromě Po 20. 4. až Pá 24. 4.
Předpoklady
intermediate knowledge of English
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 50 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 21/50, pouze zareg.: 0/50, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/50
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 12 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Anotace
This course explores Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of art through the artworks and artists he directly engaged with — from Francis Bacon and Marcel Proust to Refik Anadol. We move chronologically and conceptually through Proust and Signs, Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, The Fold, and What Is Philosophy?.

Each week pairs a Deleuzian concept (sensation, sign, fold, diagram, simulacrum, becoming, etc.) with a concrete artwork. We ask how painting, literature, theatre, and digital media think — how they create concepts in the form of percepts and affects. The course follows Deleuze’s claim that “art thinks no less than philosophy, but it thinks through affects and percepts.”
Výstupy z učení
Students will be able to:
1. Explain and contextualise Deleuze’s major aesthetic concepts.
2. Interpret concrete artworks through these concepts.
3. Articulate the continuity between Deleuze’s early and late writings on art.
4. Produce critical or creative work demonstrating how philosophy and art co-create meaning.
Klíčová témata
  • 1. Introduction: Deleuze and the Thinking of Art — Art as thought; percept, affect, concept (What Is Philosophy?, ch. 7).
  • 2. Francis Bacon: Painting Sensation — The Figure, rhythm, and diagram (Logic of Sensation, ch. 1).
  • 3. Marcel Proust: The Apprenticeship of Signs — Signs, involuntary memory, essence of art (Proust and Signs).
  • 4. Andy Warhol: Seriality and the Simulacrum — Repetition for itself; habit, memory, and death (Difference and Repetition, p. 294).
  • 5. J. M. W. Turner: Light and Movement — Chaos and order; colour-force; sensation of matter (Logic of Sensation).
  • 6. Paul Klee / Wassily Kandinsky: Lines, Rhythm, Colour — Rhythm, refrain, pure sensation (A Thousand Plateaus, “Of the Refrain”).
  • 7. Diego Velázquez: The Diagram of Visibility — The gaze, representation versus sensation (Logic of Sensation, ch. 10).
  • 8. Johannes Vermeer: The Revelation of Essence — Artistic sign, perception, truth through art (Proust and Signs, Part III).
  • 9. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Baroque Fold — Fold, inflection, infinite movement (The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque).
  • 10. Hieronymus Bosch: Multiplicity and Becoming-Animal — Delirium, multiplicity, plane of immanence (A Thousand Plateaus).
  • 11. Franz Kafka: Minor Literature and Collective Expression — Deterritorialisation, assemblage, minor use of language (Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature).
  • 12. Antonin Artaud: The Body without Organs — Cruelty, language breakdown, creation of the body (Difference and Repetition; Anti-Oedipus).
  • 13. Lewis Carroll and Samuel Beckett: Surface and Exhaustion — Sense/nonsense, paradox, minimal event (Logic of Sense; Essays Critical and Clinical).
  • 14. Refik Anadol: The Digital Diagram — Machinic perception, data-sensation, algorithmic fold (What Is Philosophy?; A Thousand Plateaus).
Studijní zdroje a literatura
  • Proust and signsthe complete text. Edited by Gilles Deleuze. New York: Continuum, 2008, ix, 126 p. ISBN 9780826442789. info
  • An introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Edited by Jean Khalfa - Gilles Deleuze. New York: Continuum, 2003, x, 211 p. ISBN 082645996X. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles. Difference and repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, xxii, 350. ISBN 0231081588. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles a Félix GUATTARI. A thousand plateaus :capitalism and schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. London: Athlone Press, 1988, xix, 610 s. ISBN 0-485-12058-5. info
  • DELEUZE, Gilles a Félix GUATTARI. Anti-Oedipus : capitalism and schizophrenia. Edited by Michel Foucault, Translated by Robert J. Hurley - Mark Seem - Helen R. London: Athlone Press, 1984, xxiv, 400. ISBN 0485300184. info
Přístupy, postupy a metody používané ve výuce
lectures, class discussion, group projects, guest lectures
Způsob ověření výstupů z učení a požadavky na ukončení
class attendance and short quizzes (50 %), group project (50 %)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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