Narrating the Catastrophe

Preface 

Chapter 1: Act and Form 
Introduction: first words - The journey begins - A meaningful psychosis - What is philosophy? - What is art? - The nature of the concept - The concept visualised - What is science? The pre-eminence of the rhizome over the metaphor - Root, stem and rhizome - 1st Articulation - The rhizome as a conceptual construct: map and tracing

2nd Articulation: Interpreting Process in the Flux: The Return of Professor Challenger 

Chapter 2: Lost Worlds, Unfamiliar Landscapes: Conceptualising the Text 
The Text and the 'Other' - Language - Hermeneutics - Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) - Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) - Hermeneutics and Visual Understanding Hans George Gadamer (1900-2002) - Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)

3rd Articulation: The Dance of the Metaphor 

Chapter 3: Language and the Line: The Geometrical Abstract Line of Becoming 
Drawing on Conversation: Introduction - The relevance and irrelevance of language - Textual bilingualism - Interlanguage - Structure and the interpretation of the text - Depth - From looking to seeing: Alice and the architectural illusion - Narrative identity and 'The Idiot'

Chapter 4: Drawing Out Deleuze 
Documenting the Stone: The artist's voice - Practice and process: i: a passion for the line - ii: process and its histories - iii: the phenomenographical stone - iv: the drawing act - v: time, movement, becoming, cause, effect and 'confatalia' - The shift: structure to figuration.

4th Articulation: Mapping the Mark

Chapter 5: The 'Appleyness' of the Apple: On Cezanne and the Figure 
Head: Revisiting the shift: from figuration towards structure - Sensation - Love in twodimensions - Superficial anatomy - Anatomical architecture - The consequence of the heart - Autoethnography: the echoing artist's voice

Chapter 6: Ageless Children and Amputees 
Amputee: In the valley of interpretation - An artist for scientists, a scientist for artists - Reflexion, interpretation appropriation - Reflexive philosophy, narrative identity and the teleological context - Time, self, and appropriation beyond narrative - Representation, figuration and the figure: a folded text

5th Articulation: Bony Landmarks 

Chapter 7: Circling the Figure
The Dyer Drawing: Circling the Figure (Author's note) - Introduction - The Dyer drawing and the drawing act - John Deakin - Deakin and Muybridge: subject, object, form, function - Moving towards sensation - Practice: through which the child becomes the man - An autoethnographic account - The 'Diagram' - The 'Catastrophe' - Rhythm - The Body Without Organs - Exit the artist

Chapter 8: Figuring the Circle: The Final Refrain
Introduction - The hermeneutic circle - The Deleuzean 'Refrain' - Shadows of the Self and the eternal paradox: The autoethnographic trap - Last words - The interpretive journey of Narrating the Catastrophe