On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation

List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Contemporary Conditions and Diagrammatic Trajectory From Joy to the Gap: The Accessing of the Infinite by the Finite (Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson) The Care of the Self versus the Ethics of Desire: Two Diagrams of the Production of Subjectivity (and of the Subject's Relation to Truth) (Foucault versus Lacan) The Aesthetic Paradigm: From the Folding of the Finite-Infinite Relation to Schizoanalytic Metamodelisation (to Biopolitics) (Guattari) The Strange Temporality of the Subject: Life In-between the Infinite and the Finite (Deleuze contra Badiou) Desiring-Machines, Chaoids, Probeheads: Towards a Speculative Production of Subjectivity (Deleuze and Guattari) Conclusion: Composite Diagram and Relations of Adjacency Bibliography Index