Deleuze and Guattari
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Kenneth Surin Duke University, USA
For Alastair and Rebecca
This collection of sixteen essays (five previously unpublished) contains essays Ive written on Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari in the last couple of decades. The first essay (Chapter 14) was published in 1991, the most recent in 2018.
Nearly every essay was written in response to invitations to give lectures or conference presentations, as well contributions to journals or essay collections. The task of revising the essays to efface all traces of oral delivery or obvious conformity to the prescribed agenda of a journal issue or book collection would have been impossible. Ive limited myself to forms of updating that remain within the realm of plausibility, the addition and removal of paragraphs here and there, and of course correcting typographical errors. Where the same passages are to be found in more than one essay, Ive allowed them to stand so as not to compromise the flow or coherence of my argument in that particular essay.
The essays range fairly widely. One (Essay 1), for a commemorative issue of Theory, Culture and Society shortly after Deleuzes death, is an attempt, futile of course, to assess his philosophical legacy. Four (Essays 2, 3, 4, 5) deal fairly specifically with Deleuzean themes and conceptshis ontologies (Essay 2), his materialism (Essay 3), his concept of force (Essay 4), and his theory of the image-narrative-concept (Essay 5). A couple deal with his relation to other thinkers (Essays 11 [Raymond Williams] and 15 [Antonio Negri]). One deals with Deleuze and literature (Essay 6), another with Deleuze and ethics/aesthetics (Essay 7). The remaining essays deal with themes in political philosophy, especially Marxism.
I am grateful to Janell Watson for much help given in countless ways while most of these essays were written. My indebtedness to others is expressed in the individual essays.
I thank the publishers for permission to reprint material from the following articles and book chapters:
The Epochality of Deleuzean Thought, Theory, Culture, and Society 14 (1997), pp. 921.
Force, in Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, ed. Charles J. Stivale (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2005), pp. 1930.
On Producing the Concept of the Concept-Image, in Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, ed. Robert Mitchell and Jacques Khalip (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 17180, 2667.
A Question of an Axiomatics of Desires: The Deleuzean Imagination of Geoliterature, in Deleuze and Literature, ed. Ian Buchanan and John Marks (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), pp. 16793.
Existing Not as a Subject but as a Work of Art: The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?, in Deleuze and Ethics, ed. Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 14253.
1000 Political Subjects, in Deleuze and the Social World, ed. Adrian Parr and Ian Buchanan (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 5778.
On Producing (the Concept) of Solidarity, Rethinking Marxism 23 (2010), pp. 44657.
Control Societies and the Managed Citizen, Junctures 8 (2007), pp. 1125.
The Undecidable and the Fugitive: Mille Plateaux and the State-Form, SubStance, #66 (1991), pp. 10213.
Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation: Going Beyond Marx in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze, Rethinking MARXISM, 7 (1994), pp. 927.
Maos On Contradiction, Mao-Hegel/Mao-Deleuze. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.3 (2018):
References to the works below are given in the text using the following abbreviations. The abbreviations are followed by two paginations, the first to the English translation cited in the Bibliography, the second to the French original, also given in the Bibliography. Translations that have been modified on occasion will be acknowledged as such.
AO | Deleuze, Gilles, and Guattari, Flix. (1977) Anti-Oedipus, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (New York: Viking). |
B | Deleuze, Gilles. (1988) Bergsonism, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (New York: Zone Books). |
CLU | Guattari, Flix, and Negri, Antonio. (1990) Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance, trans. Michael Ryan (New York: Semiotext(e)). |
D | Deleuze, Gilles, and Parnet, Claire. (1987) Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (New York: Columbia University Press). |
DI | Deleuze, Gilles. (2004) Desert Islands and Other Texts, ed. Sylvre Lotringer, trans. Michael Taomina (New York: Semiotext(e)). |
DR | Deleuze, Gilles. (1994) Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press). |
ECC | Deleuze, Gilles. (1997) Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). |
EPS | Deleuze, Gilles. (1990) Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Zone Books). |
ES | Deleuze, Gilles. (1991) Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on HumesTheory of Human Nature, trans. Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). |
F | Deleuze, Gilles. (1986) Foucault, trans. Sen Hand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). |
FLB | Deleuze, Gilles. (1993) The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). |
KCP | Deleuze, Gilles. (1983) Kants Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). |
LS | Deleuze, Gilles. (1990) The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester with Charles Stivale, ed. Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia University Press). |
M | Deleuze, Gilles. (1989) Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, trans. Jean McNeil and Aude Willm (New York: Zone Books). |
MI | Deleuze, Gilles. (1986) Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986). |
N | Deleuze, Gilles. (1995) Negotiations, 19721990, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press). |
NP | Deleuze, Gilles. (1983) Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press). |
PI | Deleuze, Gilles. (2001) Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life, trans. Anne Boyman, intro. John Rajchman (New York: Zone Books). |
PS | Deleuze, Gilles. (2000) Proust and Signs: The Complete Text, trans. Richard Howard (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). |
SPP | Deleuze, Gilles. (1988) Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, trans. Robert Hurley (San Francisco: City Lights). |
TI | Deleuze, Gilles. (1989) |
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