Simon O'Sullivan

Biographic Data

ID4532738
NAMESimon O'Sullivan
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMEO'Sullivan
SIGNATURESULLIVAN S O
AFFILIATIONSa Department of Visual Cultures , Goldsmiths College , New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK E-mail
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS57
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • From Myth-Work to Grief Work: Encountering and Re-Versioning the Folkton Drums

    Simon O’sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Archaeology2026

    Is there a sense in which archaeological artefacts can be activated within the present, perhaps even to call forth different futures? This article involves a personal account – alongside archaeological analysis (and some theoretical speculation) – of an encounter with the Folkton Drums and how a kind of “re-versioning” of them in and for the present allows other affects and meanings to foreground themselves. At stake here especially is a relation…

  • A Life between the Finite and Infinite: Remarks on Deleuze, Badiou and Western Buddhism

    Open AccessSimon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEDeleuze Studies2014

    This article explores the resonances between certain concepts of Deleuze and Badiou and a Western Buddhism that is figured, in Foucault's terminology, as a particular ‘technology of the self’. In particular Deleuze's readings of Bergson and Spinoza are brought into encounter with Buddhist doctrine and practice alongside a consideration of the figure of the bodhisattva who is further compared to Badiou's account of the subject. At stake in these e…

  • Deleuze and Contemporary Art

    Simon O'Sullivan, Simon O’sullivan et al.BOOKDeleuze and Contemporary Art2010

  • Guattari's Aesthetic Paradigm: From the Folding of the Finite/Infinite Relation to Schizoanalytic Metamodelisation

    Open AccessSimon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEDeleuze Studies2010

    This article offers two commentaries on two of Félix Guattari's essays from Chaosmosis: ‘The New Aesthetic Paradigm’ and ‘Schizoanalytic Metamodelisation’. The first commentary attends specifically to how Guattari figures the infinite/finite relation in relation to what he calls the three Assemblages (pre-, extant, and post-capitalism) and then even more specifically to the mechanics of this relation – or folding – within the third ‘processual’ A…

  • From Stuttering and Stammering to the Diagram: Deleuze, Bacon and Contemporary Art Practice

    Open AccessSimon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEDeleuze Studies2009

    This article attends to Deleuze and Guattari's idea of a ‘minor literature’ as well as to Deleuze's concepts of the figural, probe-heads and the diagram in relation to Bacon's paintings. The paper asks specifically what might be usefully taken from this Deleuze–Bacon encounter for the expanded field of contemporary art practice

  • One Day in the Life of a City (21 July, 2006)

    John Lynch, Simon D O''Sullivan et al.ARTICLEParallax2007

  • Contours and case studies for a dissenting subjectivity: Or, How to Live Creatively in a Fearful World

    Simon D O''Sullivan, Simon O''Sullivan et al.ARTICLEAngelaki2006Cited by: 1

    Contours and Case Studies for a Dissenting Subjectivity : (or, how to live creatively in a fearful world

  • From Possible Worlds to Future Folds (Following Deleuze): Richter's Abstracts, Situationist Cities, and the Baroque in Art

    Simon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEJournal of the British Society…2005

    In this article I want to think through the notion of possible worlds as developed in Gilles Deleuze’s book on Proust and, more significantly, his book on Leibniz. In particular I want to produce an encounter between certain philosophical concepts - such as the monad and the fold - and a specific art practice, in this case the abstract paintings (or “Abstracts”) of the German contemporary artist Gerhard Richter. The art practice here is meant not…

  • Art encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation

    Simon O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanBOOKArt encounters Deleuze and Guattari2005

    In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this book attempts to map out an affirmative and specifically materialist attitude to modern and contemporary art. The volume begins with the mapping out of the philosophical terrain 'beyond representation', and beyond the so-called crisis of representation (deconstruction). The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorisation of ar…

  • Writing on Art (Case Study: (The Buddhist Puja)

    Simon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEParallax2001Cited by: 1

  • The Aesthetics of Affect: Thinking art beyond representation

    Simon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEAngelaki2001Cited by: 52References: 12

    2001). THE AESTHETICS OF AFFECT: Thinking art beyond representation. Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 125-135

  • In Violence: Three Case Studies Against the Stratum

    Simon D O''Sullivan, Simon O'SullivanARTICLEParallax2000Cited by: 3