Feminism, Art, Deleuze, and Darwin: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz

Kontturi, Katve-Kaisa; Tiainen, Milla

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“…She notes, for example, that for Darwin, ‘the very machinery for generating biological difference is sexual difference. This informs Irigaray’s work, and it makes a very convincing and powerful argument for the ontological status of sexual difference’ (Kontturi and Tiainen, 2007: 249). And, we might add, for a feminist politics of and for the body, insofar as it is this difference that is so often glossed by philosophic, as well as geographic, work on bodies, corporeality and aesthetics.…”

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“…This is, perhaps, another abyssal move, but one that does not depart from an understanding of the conditions for aesthetics and artistry being predicated on ‘nature as a dynamic open-endedness’ (Kontturi and Tiainen, 2007: 225). It is a move that, to be sure, refuses to pin back the aesthetic for careful scrutiny, and the enunciation of proper procedures for such an examination.…”

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Dixon

Hawkins

Straughan

2012

Dialogues in Human Geography

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In our response, below, we undertake a deeper engagement with one of the authors, Elizabeth Grosz, that a number of the respondents have evoked, implicitly as well as explicitly, in their response to our text and, in particular, Grosz's arguments on art as of the chaotic and of the animal. Whilst our comments on the bowerbird speak to the artistry involved in a sexuated mode of reproduction that increases biological difference, we emphasise an abyssal moment in our initial text wherein we move from a consideration of sexual selection to symbiosis and accretion as productive of diversity, terms that no longer sit quite so comfortably in the lexicon of the ‘animal’. Rather, we implicate aesthetics and an artistry across and down chemical concentration gradients.

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Hawkins

Straughan

2012

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…Engaging with the arts beyond representation but rather as an on-going in-becoming of meaning and meaning making means taking part in what happens here and now in its very materiality (Kontturi & Tiainen, 2007;Alaimo & Hekman, 2008;Bennett, 2010). Since 2017, Lena Haselmann, Janke Klok, and Lilli Mittner have explored, on the basis of the white, Western, classical canon, how to make middles matter (Tianinen et al, 2020) by creating dramatic assemblages in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari (1987).…”

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Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world

Mittner,

Meling,

Maxwell

2023

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The cultural sector is a potential instigator of change due to its experimental, performative, and relational nature. However, like everywhere else, the cultural sector re-enacts and thus conserves inequalities of various kinds through its outreach to wider audiences and its deep engagement in socio-cultural practices. By taking our actions within the ERASMUS+ project ‘Voices of Women’ as a creative catalyst, this paper scrutinizes a set of items for further discussion of arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more (gender) equal world. We discuss the ability of the arts to engage, educate, and transform power relations through three pathways towards sustainable transformation: 1. Canon critique; 2. Decolonization; and 3. New materialism. We argue that all three pathways enable novel forms of knowledge creation and actions in arts-based research, arts education, the cultural sector, and beyond. Cover image: Still picture from film: Music and Gender in Balance (Mittner and Bergli, 2018)

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“…It is this insight that made Deleuze's Darwinian and Bergsonian intuitions interesting to feminists. Instead of viewing sexual differences as a problem to be overcome, it is acknowledged as the basis of all becoming (Kontturi and Tiainen, 2007). In her reading of Deleuze's Bergsonism, Grosz draws on this distinction between 'external differences' or 'differences of nature' which constitute different entities and render them comparable, and 'constitutive or internal differences', which produce these differences of nature.…”

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Gender and visionary leading: rethinking ‘vision’ with Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari

Painter‐Morland

Deslandes

2013

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In this article, we investigate the charge that women leaders fall short when it comes to ‘vision’. We track the roots of this charge, and the effects this has on women in the workplace, back to the binary representationalist logic that underpin gender stereotypes. We challenge these representationalist stereotypes by offering a more material account of how identities come into being, drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In the last part of the article we explore an alternative understanding of ‘visionary leadership’ by drawing on Henri Bergson’s philosophy and ethics and that of Deleuze, which allows for the development of an alternative understanding of both agency and epistemology. We also rely heavily on Elizabeth Grosz’ reading of Deleuze and Bergson, and her valuable perspectives on the implications of these authors’ work for gender discourses.

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Feminism, Art, Deleuze, and Darwin: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz

Cited by 18 publications

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Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world

Gender and visionary leading: rethinking ‘vision’ with Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari

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