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Intersects the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and anarchist thought
While both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May '68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy, there is no sustained or explicit discussion of anarchism in their work. This book offers a new analysis of Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism from both an anthropological and historical perspective.
This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the concept of anarchism as they conceived of it themselves. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and is referred to in very different senses throughout their work. The essays also highlight the relationship between anarchism and anthropology as referenced through the work of Pierre Clastres.
This map of Deleuze and Guattari's thought intersects with both classic and contemporary anarchist discourse and practices in both academia and society at large.
Chantelle Gray van Heerden is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa. Aragorn Eloff is an independent researcher with a long-standing interest in the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Section I: Deleuze and Guattari and Anarchism1. Crowned Anarchy-Anarchy-Anarchism - Countereffectuating Deleuze and Guattari's Politics
Aragorn Eloff
2. No Gods! No Masters!: From Ontological to Political Anarchism
Thomas Nail
3. Absolutely Deterritorial: Deleuze, Indigeneity and Ethico-Aesthetic Anarchism as Strategy
Andrew Stones
4. Micropolitics and Social Change: Deleuze and Guattari for Anarchist Theory and Practice
Paul Raekstad
Section II: Theoretical Perspectives5. Deleuze and the Anarchist Tradition
Nathan Jun
6. Immanent Ethics and Forms of Representation
Elizabet Vasileva
7. Deleuze and Stirner: Ties, Tensions and Rifts
Elmo Feiten
8. Anarchy and Institution: A New Sadean Possibility
Natascia Tosel
Section III: Relays of a Different Kind9. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?: Coming to Terms With Deleuze
Jesse Cohn
10. Deterritorialising Anarchist Geographies: A Deleuzian Approach
Alejandro de la Torre and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre
11. 'Visible Invisibility' as Machinic Resistance
Christoph Hubatschke
12. Pierre Clastres and the Amazonian War Machine
Gregory Kalyniuk
13. From the Autochthonousphere to the Allochthonousphere: Escaping the Logics of Plantations and the Moving Target
Chantelle Gray van Heerden
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Chantelle Gray van Heerden is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa.Aragorn Eloff is an independent scholar and a Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa.
Summary
This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also expands it in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State.
