Representing a sustained engagement with the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, covering more than two decades and on a wide range of topics, from aesthetics and literature to capitalism and Marxism, Kenneth Surin takes politics as the thematic thread to this collection.
Deleuze and Guattari: Selected Writings tackles both central political issues, such as the State, globalization, and the citizen, as well as the political qualities of topics generally considered outside this realm, such as the animal, the image, and the literary. Surins pursues theoretical interventions inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's scholarship in relation to Marxism and specifically materialism and notions of political solidarity, which they did not engage with extensively or explicitly themselves, but which extend their critique along new lines of flight.
This book demonstrates the breadth and lasting relevance of Deleuze's and Guattari's legacy by tracing the affinities between Deleuze and both Marxist sociologist, Antonio Negri, and Raymond Williams, one of the founders of cultural studies as a discipline.
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Kenneth Surin is Professor of Literature and Professor of Religion and Critical Theory at Duke University, USA. In addition to books and articles in theology and the philosophy of religion, he has published articles on political economy, political philosophy, French and German philosophy, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of education, sports and philosophy, the philosophy of literature, and cultural anthropology. His is the author of Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order (2009).
Inhalt
Preface
Abbreviations
1 The 'Epochality' Of Deleuzean Thought
2 Deleuze's Three Ontologies
3 Was Deleuze A Materialist?
4 Force As A Deleuzean Concept
5 On Producing The Concept Of The Image-Concept
6 "A Question Of An Axiomatic Of Desires": The Deleuzian Imagination Of Geoliterature
7 "Existing Not As A Subject But As A Work Of Art"- The Task Of Ethics? Or Aesthetics?
8 The Socius And Life
9 "1000 Political Subjects"
10 The Radical Event?
11 On Producing (The Concept Of) Solidarity
12 What Is Becoming-Animal? The Politics Of Deleuze And Guattari "Strange Notion"
13 The Society Of Control And The Managed Citizen
14 The Undecidable And The Fugitive: Mille Plateaux And The State-Form
15 "Reinventing A Physiology Of Collective Liberation": Going Beyond Marx In The Marxism(S) of Negri, Guattari, And Deleuze
Bibliography
Index