The Ethico-Aesthetics of the Figure Jay Hetrick Abstract In this essay, I argue that Gilles Deleuze’s logic of the figure – if abstracted and connected to certain other of Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts – provides the ground for not only artistic practice, but for any creative act, including what Guattari calls the ‘ethicopolitical.’ The first part of the essay analyses in some depth the concept of the figure before testing and further extending it through Henri Michaux’s art informel. I suggest that this logic of the figure – when we consider the closely related concepts of the line of flight, formlessness, as well as the new type of praxis it entails – may serve as a ground, more specifically, for the construction of a future post-autonomist politics, a ground in the sense of providing a non-dialectical political ontology. In conclusion, I propose that the scream of the figure – the scream that implies ‘another world is possible!’ as Isabelle Stengers has noted – is itself an ethico-political act that is in some ways superior to the idea of a political program. This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life ed. Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2014, pp. 205-235