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In Deleuze’s writing, concepts are nomadic things: always on the move, always being created anew. Nevertheless, in an early thesis submitted for his professorship, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, Deleuze began to articulate a philosophy of immanence which never subsequently disappeared from his thought, though it went by several other names. The logics of sense or ‘becoming’ in Deleuze’s more well-known works are but mutations of the logic of expression that he reads into his beloved Spinoza, ‘the “prince” of philosophers’.1
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Jonathan Cole, About Face: a Natural History of the Face, and an Un-Natural History of Those Who Live Without It, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
Gita Sukthanker, ‘Face Recognition: A Critical Look at Biologically-Inspired Approaches’, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2000.
I take this phrase from Rivers’s Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier and Zola, Madison, WI, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
Johann Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Written in the German Language by John Caspar Lavater. and Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft …[etc.], 10th edn, London: Tegg, 1858.
Alphonso Lingis, Phenomenological Explanations, Dordrecht and Boston, MA: M. Nijhoff, 1986, p. 100.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, trans. Graham Birchill and Hugh Tomlinson, London and New York: Verso, 1994, p. 160.
Georg Simmel, ‘The Aesthetic Significance of the Face’, in K. H. Woolf, ed., Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics, New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Ibid., p. 277.
Ibid., p. 276.
Ibid., p. 277.
Ibid., p. 104.
Frank Willett, An Introduction to African Art, London: Thames & Hudson, 1970, p. 213.
Alan Tormey, The Concept of Expression: A Study in Philosophical Psychology and Aesthetics, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971, p. 39.
Ibid.
See Valentin Volshoninov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, trans. Ladislav Matejka and I. R. Titunik, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986, p. 85. This text and its alternative approach to expression would seem to have informed that of Deleuze and Guattari, mentioned in passing in a footnote in A Thousand Plateaus (p. 523, n. 5).
Alan Trachtenberg, ‘Lincoln’s Smile: Ambiguities of the Face in Photography’, Social Research, 67(1), 2000, p. 1.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Prose of the World, trans. Claude Lefort, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973, p. 75.
See J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2nd edn, ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975, pp. 52, 76, 148.
The following explication of this triadic structure is based around that made in Robert Piercy, ‘The Spinoza-Intoxicated Man: Deleuze on Expression’, Man and World, 29, 1996, pp. 269–81.
My guide here has been David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles, 2nd rev. edn), Weinheim: Wiley VCH, 2008.
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Bayly, S. (2011). Logics of Expression. In: A Pathognomy of Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306936_7
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