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ItemEditorial introduction: A creative life( 2006)In seeking authors who might address the relationship between the notions of philosophy and of creativity, the call for papers for this special issue of Angelaki invited consideration of the physical terms of each of these pursuits – philosophy and creative invention. The daily praxes of individual authorial and artistic pursuits are what have drawn us close to these selected texts. Individual authors’ obsessions and obsessive interests highlight the immense variation in how aesthetics operates as a determinant mode for those individuals and the communities with which they choose to engage.
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ItemDeleuze's kiss: the sensory pause of screen affect( 2005)Imagine, if you will, that screening on the wall in front of you is American artist Andy Warhol’s 1963 film Kiss. Warhol’s anthropological documentary-style fifty minute film is of fixed camera head-shots of same and opposite sex couples french-kissing; passionately. The duration of the kiss on screen is dependent upon the length of 16mm film that Warhol had in his silent Bolex camera at the time, usually 100 feet – enough to make four minutes of screen kiss time. Kiss invokes the screen issues for the reading of this essay: desire, gender, duration, spectatorship, and affect.