A Politics of Peripheries: Deleuze and Guattari as Dependency Theorists

Given that Deleuze and Guattari came to prominence after May 1968, many readers attempt to determine the political significance of their work. The difficulty that some encounter finding its political implications contrasts with Deleuze and Guattari\u27s commitment to radical causes. In response, Patton and Thoburn elaborate on the Marxist elements in the pair\u27s oeuvre, a line of analysis I continue. Focusing on A Thousand Plateaus, I discuss their references to the theorisation of the ‘dependency theorists’, a group of Marxist-inspired scholars who became influential during the 1960s. Does their engagement with dependency theory provide the basis for a political project

Deleuze, Haraway, and the Radical Democracy of Desire

In response to suggestions that Deleuze and Guattari are the “enemy” of companion species, this essay explores the tension between Donna Haraway’s attacks against Deleuze and Guattari and their philosophy of becoming animal. The essay goes on to contextualize Deleuze and Guattari’s statements against pet-owners through a discussion of the psychoanalytical refiguration of desire and shows how their ostensible attack against pet owners fits into their larger critique against capitalism. The essay illustrates why Deleuze and Guattari and Haraway are more in agreement than first meets the eye, finding commensurability through Haraway’s early work on embryology. Becoming animal does not begin and end with either humans or animals and the essay explores the high stakes of focusing on intensities rather than actual animal bodies

Un film postmoderne et rhizomatique

Sans jamais mentionner le mot « postmodernisme », Deleuze et Guattari formulent pourtant, lorsqu’ils développent leur concept de « rhizome », un des meilleurs modèles pour concevoir un texte postmoderne, et La Mort de Molière en est un. Le « rhizome » qui se définit selon Deleuze et Guattari par six principes – la connexion, l’hétérogénéité, la multiplicité, la rupture asignifiante, la cartographie et la décalcomanie – permet d’élucider les caractéristiques et spécificités d’une telle oeuvre, et ceci aussi bien quant à sa structure ou son agencement que quant aux effets de lecture que provoque un texte d’une telle ouverture.Although they never mention the word “ postmodernism ”, nevertheless Deleuze and Guattari develop a kindred concept, the “ rhizome ”, which is one of the best models for understanding a postmodern text like La Mort de Molière. According to Deleuze and Guattari, the rhizome is defined by six principles – connection, heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, cartography, and decalcomania – which serve to elucidate the specific characteristics of this work, its structure and organization, as well as the reading-effects provoked by such an opened text

The Risomorphous Concept of Time and History in Postmodernism

The article discusses the understanding of ‘’Rhizome’’ established by Gilles Deleuze and Guattari in French post-modernism. We make a historical model analysis of history and time, description of linear time. Eventually we combine all hitherto existing historical paradigms in the fundamental metaparadigm. New understanding of metaparadigm of history and time is described in the article which is based on the understanding of ‘’Rhizome’’ established by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari

Pro Republica, contra Imperium

El objetivo del presente texto es comparar y aproximar dos filosofías políticas bien diferentes: el republicanismo de Philip Pettit y el constructivismo de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Escrutaremos, principalmente, "Republicanism. A Theory of Freedom and Government" de Pettit y Mille plateaux. "Capitalisme et schizophrénie II" de Deleuze y Guattari. En nuestra lectura, subrayamos el sentido pragmático de las propuestas de ambos pensadores y mostramos sus posibles coincidencias

Complicating not explicating: Taking up philosophy in learning disability research

This article provides an introduction to some theoretical ideas and practices from the so-called “philosophers of difference” – Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari. They afford an opportunity to think differently about the construction of learning disability and to envision new forms of learning. Two key concepts – Foucault’s transgression and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome – are introduced and examples from research on learning disability and other dimensions of disability are given to illustrate their potential. The theoretical practices of deconstruction, developed by Derrida, and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic analysis are also presented and exemplified. I argue that these these theoretical concepts and practices, if taken up, shift the researcher towards an ethics of research and to greater responsibility. The implications of this are discussed in the final part of the paper

Reconceptualising transition to Higher Education with Deleuze and Guattari

This article draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to reconceptualise transition to Higher Education. In doing so it contributes a new theoretical approach to understanding transition to Higher Education which largely remains under-theorised, uncritical and taken-for-granted. Drawing on data from two projects, the article activates Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of assemblage, rhizome and becoming to contest the established view of transition as a linear pathway or series of ‘critical incidents’. The article illuminates how Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts are of value both in theorising the multiplicity and heterogeneity of transition and in refocusing attention on the lived specificities of students’ experiences within a complex web of institutional and affective practices. The article ends with a consideration of how Deleuze and Guattari recast understandings of transitions theory and practice

Affective Witnessing: [Trans]posing the Western/Muslim Divide to Document Refugee Spaces

Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture. It reflects on the legacy and influence of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the uptake of affect in architectural discourse and practice, and stresses the importance of the political in discussions of affect. It is a timely antidote to an enduring fixation on architectural phenomenology in the field. The contributors offer a variety of approaches to the challenge

The Writer as an Acrobat: Deleuze and Guattari on the Relation between Philosophy and Literature (and How Kierkegaard Moves in-between)

Throughout his work, Deleuze not only draws on literature in order to address philosophical problems but he seeks to map out the ‘mobile relations’ between philosophy and literature. After an initial overview, I will focus on A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a book co-authored with Guattari, and in particular, on plateaus “1874: Three Novellas or ‘What happened?’” and “1730: Becoming-intense, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible…” In doing so, I aim to explore: (a) how the relation between literature and philosophy is refracted in Novellas Plateau and (b) the way in which Deleuze and Guattari articulate their key philosophical notion of becoming-imperceptible via Kierkegaard’s knight of faith. The novella as a literary genre by essentially relating to secrecy also advances a distinctive way of relation between the three dimensions of time (the past, present and future). I argue that novella-time could be extended beyond the limits of the literary genre ‘novella.’ To this end, I propose a reading of Kierkegaard’s Repetition (1843) and selected entries from his Journals in order to identify his contribution as a religious writer to the discussion of philosophy as literature. I conclude that time, change and faith stand out as a common problematic of philosophy, literature, and life

The sexuality assemblage: Desire, affect, anti-humanism

Two theoretical moves are required to resist the ‘humanist enticements’ associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally-specific sexual knowledgeabilities. A second anti-humanist move is then needed to overturn anthropocentric privileging of the human body and subject as the locus of sexuality. In this paper we establish a language and landscape for a Deleuze inspired anti-humanist sociology of sexuality that shifts the location of sexuality away from bodies and individuals. Sexuality in this view is an impersonal affective flow within assemblages of bodies, things, ideas and social institutions, which produces sexual (and other) capacities in bodies. Assemblages territorialise bodies’ desire, setting limits on what it can do: this process determines the shape of sexuality, which is consequently both infinitely variable and typically highly restricted. We illustrate how this anti-humanist ontology may be applied to empirical data to explore sexualityassemblages, and conclude by exploring the theoretical and methodological advantages and disadvantages of an anti-humanist assemblage approach to sexuality