ABSTRACT

This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic and futural.

Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History performs a transdisciplinary philosophy of aesthetic history via the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cy Twombly, Marina Abramović, Paul Celan, Cecil Taylor, Italo Calvino, Candida Höfer, and others by focusing on the□artistic and historiographic labor that differentiates artworks from other modes of creation.

chapter I|17 pages

Introduction: “Visions and Auditions”

To survive our “plague year”

chapter II|48 pages

Twenty-first Series of Aesthetic History

chapter III|25 pages

Twenty-first Series of Aesthetic History

Hypomnemata

chapter IV|3 pages

Sibyl of Cumae, or Indiscernibility

chapter V|17 pages

From Oceanic Chaos… A Luminous Wave

Transmissibility in the Aesthetic Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

chapter VI|4 pages

Imperceptibility, or The Ear of the Future

chapter VII|32 pages

To Transmit and Receive Vibrations and Waves

Italo Calvino as Aesthetic History