Torsional Materialism: Artwork beyond the Immanence/Transcendence Divide

ARTWORK BETWEEN IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE As sketched in the introductory part of this paper, much of the contemporary philosophy and theory inspired by Guattari and Deleuze-the so-called new materialisms-has developed in an attempt to forge new models of thinking about art, society and nature away from the (postmodern, poststructuralist) linguistic model. [...]the body (of the artwork) is exhausted in its relational becoming. According to Garcia, in vectorial ontologies "what is in the world is not identity but difference, trajectory, becoming . . According to Deleuze and Guattari the book, but any other body and any other artwork as well, is always already opened toward the exteriority compared to the root-book.