Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Music Chapter One
MUSICA NATURANS: DETERRITORIALIZING THE REFRAIN
Music and Cosmos in Antiquity
Rhythm and the Refrain
From Milieus to Territories
Messiaen and the Composition of Time
The Music of the Birds
Chapter Two
MUSIC IN TIME: HISTORY AND BECOMING
Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Child
Transverse Becomings of Musical Invention
Classical Form, Romantic Variation
The Problem of the People
Varese and the Modern Sound Machine
Cosmic People and the History of Discernibility
Chapter Three
NATURA MUSICANS: TERRITORY AND THE REFRAIN
Ethology and Territoriality
Von Uexkull and Musical Milieus
Ruyer and the Melodies of Developmental Biology
Structural Coupling and Natural Drift
Function and Aesthetics
The Autonomous Refrain
Part II: Painting
Chapter Four
FACES
Hand and Mouth, Tool and Face
Regimes of Signs and the Faces of Power
White Wall, Black Hole
The Abstract Machine of Faciality
The Face and the Gaze
From the Gaze to the Face
Deterritorializing the Face
Primitive Heads, Christ-Face, Probe Heads
Chapter Five
FORCES
The Figural
Systole and Diastole
The Brutality of Fact
Forces
Chapter Six
COLOR
Analogical Modulation
Haptic and Optic
Ground and Foundation
Excursus on the Gothic Line
Haptic Colorism
Analogue Diagrammatic Modulation
Part III: The Arts
Chapter Seven
SENSATION AND THE PLANE OF COMPOSITION
Sensation
Plane of Immanence, Plane of Composition
Virtual and Possible
Conclusion
Specific Domains
Elective Affinities
Notes
Works Cited
Index