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This book provides a thorough application of theoretical ideas from Deleuze and Guattari to a series of examples drawn from contemporary film and new media arts. Chapters demonstrate examples of how to do schizoanalysis in philosophically informed cinema studies, new media, and arts based education. Schizoanalysis, as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari in distinction to Lacanian psychoanalysis, provides an imaginary basis to address the precarity of the contemporary world order: from the growing populism with its authoritarian fascist tendencies tothe growing concerns regarding climate change within the Anthropocene. Part I of this book initiates this understanding through cinematic examples. Part II calls for a schizoanalytic pedagogical imagination, which is needed to provide insight into the structures of desire as they circulate in media, especially videogames, and the tensions between analogue and digital technological manifestations. Such pedagogy enables an understanding of the "new materialism" where nonhuman and inhuman (AI) agencies are taken into account. To this end schizoanalytic pedagogy calls for a "new earth" of transformed values and relationships. 

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Introduction

1-26

Schizo times in cinematic thought

29-42

Repeating the butterfly effect

43-65

Migrant subjectivity and territory rethought

67-80

The schizos of the broken circle breakdown

81-94

Dreamland welcomes you

95-116

The Batman trilogy

117-145

The prosthetics of video games

149-165

Between war and edutainment

167-181

Explorations of the analog-digital

183-199

Artistic speculations and pedagogical challenges

201-226