Paul Patton - Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics

This book draws on essays previously published, although not always in the form in which they appear here. I am grateful to the publishers for permission to reprint material from the following articles and chapters:

Mobile Concepts, Metaphor and The Problem of Referentiality in Deleuze and Guattari, in Maria Margaroni and Effie Yiannopoulou, eds., Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006, 2746. With the permission of Editions Rodopi.

Future Politics, in Paul Patton and John Protevi, eds., Between Deleuze and Derrida. London and New York: Continuum, 2003, 1529. By kind permission of Continuum Publishing.

Concept and Politics in Derrida and Deleuze. Critical Horizons, 4:2, October 2003, 157175. With permission of Brill Publishing.

Redescriptive Philosophy: Deleuze and Guattaris Critical Pragmatism, in Patricia Pisters, ed., Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari, 2942. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2001. Extracts reproduced with permission of Amsterdam University Press.

Events, Becoming, and History, in Jeffrey Bell and Claire Colebrook, eds., Deleuze and History , 3353. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Reproduced with the permission of Edinburgh University Press.

The Event of Colonisation, in Ian Buchanan and Adrian Parr, eds., Deleuze and the Contemporary World, 195220. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Reproduced with the permission of Edinburgh University Press.

Becoming-Animal and Pure Life in Coetzees Disgrace . ARIEL: a review of international english literature , Special Issue: Law, Literature, Postcoloniality, 35:12 Spring 2006, 101119. Reproduced with the permission of the Board of Governors, University of Calgary, AB.

Deleuzes Practical Philosophy, in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 10:1, Spring 2006, 285303. Extracts reproduced with the permission of the editor.

Deleuze and Democracy. Contemporary Political Theory , 4:4, December 2005, 400413. Reproduced with the Permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

Deleuze and Democratic Politics, in Lars Tnder and Lasse Thomassen, eds., Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack , 5067. Manchester, UK, and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. Extracts reproduced with the permission of Manchester University Press.

Becoming-democratic, in Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn, eds., Deleuze and Politics , 178195. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Extracts reproduced with the permission of Edinburgh University Press.

Order, Exteriority and Flat Multiplicities in the Social, in Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sorensen, eds., Deleuze and the Social , 2138. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Extracts reproduced with the permission of Edinburgh University Press.

Utopian Political Philosophy: Deleuze and Rawls . Deleuze Studies, 1:1, 2007, 4159. Extracts reproduced with the permission of Edinburgh University Press.

I am grateful to Hent de Vries for encouraging me to submit my book to this series. Many people have commented on earlier versions of the essays collected here, some in response to papers presented at conferences and seminars and some in response to written drafts. Among those who have provided me with helpful feedback and suggestions I would especially like to thank: Manola Antonioli, Miriam Bankovsky, Jane Bennett, Constantin Boundas, Sean Bowden, Rosi Braidotti, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, William Connolly, Simon Critchley, Chris Danta, Rosalyn Diprose, Simon Duffy, Bela Egyed, Martin Fuglsang, Moira Gatens, Gary Genosko, Eugene Holland, Duncan Ivison, Anthony Laden, Gregg Lambert, Craig Lundy, Catherine Malabou, Maria Margaroni, Paola Marrati, Todd May, Philippe Mengue, Dirk Moses, Adrian Parr, Patricia Pisters, John Protevi, Marc Rlli, Linnell Secomb, Daniel W. Smith, Bent Meier Sorensen, Charles J. Stivale, Kenneth J. Surin, Nicholas Thoburn, Lasse Thomassen, Lars Tnder, Simon Tormey, James Williams, and Effie Yiannopoulou.

Research for this book was supported under Australian Research Councils Discovery Projects funding scheme DP0772933.