Art & politics & fiction & sex & death & aesthetics & reading & psychobiography & dialectics & philosophy & horror & sleeping & reading & music & intensity & jouissance &... 8 speakers negotiate diverse positions mapping the radical terrain of the ampersand http://www.ica.org.uk/ MARIA FUSCO IS PATRICIA MacCORMACK Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer. She is Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College, and the editor of The Happy Hypocrite, a new journal for and about experimental writing. Patricia MacCormack is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published on Continental Philosophy & the ethics of aesthetics. Talk: The ecosophy of art - a monstrous hybrid event. Art itself is an '&' traversal. Deleuze and Guattari and Serres claim art is produced through a mapping of chaos which is an ethical production (cf Spinoza) - an ecosophic territory. For D&G philosophy describes the creation of concepts which are the result of problems, that is, the incommensurability of two ideas. Concepts and philosophy always require an '&', not an 'or' and the '&' is not causal or chronocentric but immanent, neither element precedes or follows. Symposium convened by John Russell & Alun Rowlands, Department of Fine Art, University of Reading. Less