Art as abstract machine -- The artist-philosopher : Deleuze, Nietzsche, and the critical art of affirmation -- Spinoza : mystical atheism, and the art of beatitude -- We need new signs : towards a cinematic image of thought -- A freedom for the end of the world : painting and absolute deterritorialisation -- Songs of molecules : the chaosmosis of sensation -- The agitations of convulsive life : painting the flesh -- Conclusion, a break, a becoming, and a belief.