Deleuze and Political Activism Deleuze Studies Volume 4: 2010 (Supplement)

by Svirsky, Marcelo

• ISBN13: 9780748640522
• ISBN10: 0748640525
• Edition: Supplement
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

When Deleuze and Guattari wrote Anti-Oedipus they hoped it would be a resource to arms for dissidents and political activists. Rather than set out a program of change, they tried to isolate the political, cultural and economic factors that inhibit change. In so doing they created a work that was instantly recognised as a philosophical watershed. It changed the landscape of political theory in a single sweep. In this volume, both critical theorists and activists analyse Deleuze and Guattari's critical tools on radical politics. The essays integrate theoretical elaborations and case-study problematisations on different political spaces and times, offering new ways to reflect on, and experiment with transformative politics.

Table of Contents

Special Issue on Deleuze and Political Activism
Editor's Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction: Beyond the Royal Science of Politics	p. 1
Articles
Desire, Apathy and Activism	p. 7
'To Believe In This World, As It Is': Immanence and the Quest for Political Activism	p. 28
The Common as Body Without Organs	p. 46
Activist Materialism	p. 64
Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and Foucault	p. 84
Politics in the Middle: For a Political Interpretation of the Dualisms in Deleuze and Guattari	p. 104
The Greek Gloom and the December 2008 Uprising	p. 127
Life Resistance: Towards a Different Concept of the Political	p. 142
Defining Activism	p. 163
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