Deleuze & Guattari

by Kaufman, Eleanor; Heller, Kevin Jon

• ISBN13: 9780816630288
• ISBN10: 0816630283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

During their lives, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were two of France's most prominent thinkers, and their work continues to be a vital and influential part of critical theory. The essays in this collection, written by prominent scholars, offer a new approach to their work. Unique in its emphasis on Guattari, both in conjunction with Deleuze and independently, this volume features an essay by Deleuze himself and includes a comprehensive bibliography of Guattari's and Deleuze's work. The body of work explored here spans three decades and cuts across the lines of philosophy, political theory, geography, literature, aesthetics, and even the applied sciences. Readers unfamiliar with Deleuze and Guattari will gain a broad sense of their work from these pages; specialists will discover new and different methods of understanding the contributions of these writers. The essays map out a set of applications that, rather than explain Deleuze and Guattari, aim to extend and reinvent their thought in new and "real life" domains, from cinema to the Gulf War, from quantum mechanics to the L.A. riots, and from Israel's deportation of Palestinians to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's masochism. Overall, the collection demonstrates the wide range of potential applications of Deleuze's and Guattari's theories and expands current readings of their work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Having an Idea in Cinema (On the Cinema of Straub-Huillet)	p. 14
The Withering of Civil Society	p. 23
Requiem for Our Prospective Dead (Toward a Participatory Critique of Capitalist Power)	p. 40
From Schizophrenia to Social Control	p. 65
Capital/Cinema	p. 77
To Each Its Own Sexes? Toward a Rhetorical Understanding of Molecular Revolution	p. 96
Subjectivity and Space: Deleuze and Guattari's BwO in the New World Order	p. 112
415 Men: Moving Bodies, or, The Cinematic Politics of Deportation	p. 127
From Text to Territory: Felix Guattari's Cartographies of the Unconscious	p. 145
Guattari's Schizoanalytic Semiotics: Mixing Hjelmslev and Peirce	p. 175
Becoming a Body without Organs: The Masochistic Quest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 191
Quantum Ontology: A Virtual Mechanics of Becoming	p. 211
Madness and Repetition: The Absence of Work in Deleuze, Foucault, and Jacques Martin	p. 230
The Place of Ethics in Deleuze's Philosophy: Three Questions of Immanence	p. 251
Another Always Thinks in Me	p. 270
Select Bibliography	p. 281
Contributors	p. 299
Index	p. 303
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