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Comics & Graphic Novels Literary

A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book

by (author) Douglas Ord

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2018
Category
Literary, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771832960
    Publish Date
    Oct 2018
    List Price
    $20.00

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Description

A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book is a playful experiment in what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze might call “crowned anarchy.? The crown of authority is worn by the format “colouring book,? in a style that repeats with difference. Anarchy enters via a swarm of figures from philosophical, literary, theological, and art history, each with a quotation. These distribute themselves over fifty-two drawings, producing little machines that are desirous of colour and driven by paradox, whose “organization of surface ... assures the resonance between two series.?

About the author

Douglas Ord, author of Tommy’s Farm and Oscar and Jeannie, spent his early years in Iroquois, Ontario, which was destroyed by a flood of biblical proportions when the St. Lawrence Seaway was built. As an anonymous escapee, he then lived in suburbs.

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Excerpt: A Schizo-Philosopher's Colouring Book (by (author) Douglas Ord)

Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. It is the craziest mosaic technique you can imagine. --Walter Benjamin (Letter to Gerhard Scholem (1924; translation Manfred R. and Evelyn M. Jacobson))