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A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

Edited by HENRY SOMERS-HALL, JEFFREY A. BELL and JAMES WILLIAMS

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Introduction
Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams

1 A book? What book? Or Deleuze and Guattari on the Rhizome
Miguel de Beistegui

2 One or Several Wolves: The Wolf-Mans Pass-Words
Brent Adkins

3 Who the Earth Thinks It Is
Ronald Bogue

4 Postulates of Linguistics
Jeffrey A. Bell

5 587 BCAD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs
Audrey Wasser

6 November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Organs?
John Protevi

7 Year Zero: Faciality
Nathan Widder

8 What Happened Next?: Hjelmslevs Net, Arachnes Web and the Figure of the Line
Helen Palmer

9 Micropolitics and Segmentarity
Eugene W. Holland

10 Memories of a Deleuzian: To Think is Always to Follow the Witches Flight
Simon OSullivan

11 Of the Refrain (The Ritornello)
Emma Ingala

12 1227: Treatise on Nomadology The War Machine
Paul Patton

13 7000 BC: Apparatus of Capture
Daniel W. Smith

14 The Smooth and the Striated
Henry Somers-Hall

15 Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines: Form and Function in A Thousand Plateaus
Ray Brassier

Miguel de Beistegui is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His most recent book, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject (Chicago University Press) will be out in late 2017. He is also the author of articles and books on Deleuze, including Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology (2005) and Immanence and Philosophy: Deleuze (2010), the aesthetics of metaphor (Proust as Philosopher and Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor, 2012), and Heidegger (Heidegger and the Political, Thinking with Heidegger, The New Heidegger).

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1996), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (2006), Deleuzes Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment (2009) and Deleuze and Guattaris What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (2016). He edited Deleuze and History (2009) with Claire Colebrook, and Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (2015) with Andrew Cutrofello and Paul Livingston.

Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Deleuze and Guattari (1989), Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts (2003), Deleuzes Wake (2004), Deleuzes Way (2007) and Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History (2010).

Ray Brassier is Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Palgrave, 2007) and the English translator of works by Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux. He is currently working on a book entitled Reasons, Patterns, and Processes: Sellarss Transcendental Naturalism.

Eugene W. Holland is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis (1993) and Nomad Citizenship (2011), as well as readers guides to Anti-Oedipus (Routledge, 1999) and A Thousand Plateaus (Bloomsbury, 2013). He is currently completing a book on Perversions of the Market.

Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is the co-editor, with Gavin Rae, of Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming), and has published various articles on Deleuze, Lacan and twentieth-century French philosophy.

Simon OSullivan, Professor of Art Theory and Practice in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, is the author of Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2005) and On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation (Palgrave, 2012). He is currently working on a collaborative volume of writings, with David Burrows, Mythopoesis, Myth-Science, Mythotechnesis (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press).

Helen Palmer is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, London. She is THE author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (2014). She has recently published articles on new materialism and gender, and is working on a book called Queer Defamiliarisation: A Reassessment of Estrangement.

Paul Patton is Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Deleuze and the Political (2000) and Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics (2010). He edited Deleuze: A Critical Reader (1996). He co-edited (with Duncan Ivison and Will Sanders) Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2000), (with John Protevi) Between Deleuze and Derrida (2003), (with Simone Bignall) Deleuze and the Postcolonial (2010) and (with Sean Bowden and Simone Bignall) Deleuze and Pragmatism (2015). His current research deals with the political philosophy of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, as well as issues in contemporary liberal political philosophy.

John Protevi is Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He is the author of Political Affect (Minnesota, 2009) and Life, War, Earth (Minnesota, 2013), as well as editor of the Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh, 2004).

Daniel W. Smith, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, is the author of Essays on Deleuze (2012) and has published widely on topics in contemporary philosophy. He is the translator of Gilles Deleuzes Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical and Clinical (with Michael A. Greco), as well as Pierre Klossowskis Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle and Isabelle Stengerss