Deleuzian Politics?

New Formations 68:

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new formations a journal of culture/theory/politics

68: Deleuzian Politics?

Jeremy Gilbert and Chrysanthi Nigianni (guest editors)

Editorial

This issue of new formations reflects on the 'turn to Deleuze' in the English-speaking world in recent years (looking in particular, but not exclusively, at his work with Félix Guattari). The writings of Deleuze and Guattari can be seen as natural resources and allies for those working in the tradition of cultural studies - in their efforts to delineate a fully materialist ontology and a fully social and political theory of the psychic, and to give expression to a politics which is at once libertarian and radically collectivist in its orientation; and in the radical and militant interdisciplinarity which is characteric of their work. The essays in this volume represent a range of work that demonstrates, and occasionally questions, the usefulness of Deleuzian ideas for addressing key cultural theoretical questions in novel and politically productive ways. The issue includes an extensive critical review of the work of Deleuze by Jeremy Gilbert, and a round-table discussion between four leading commentators on 'Deleuzian politics'. Several essays explore the possible radical implications of Deleuze's thought for a reformulation of sexual politics, while other themes include vitalism; affirmative ethics; arguments with Antonio Negri; transcendental empiricism; and the political figure of the militant.

Contributors: Éric Alliez, Véronique Bergen, Rosi Braidotti, Jorge Camacho, Claire Colebrook, Jeremy Gilbert, Peter Hallward, Patricia MacCormack, Chrysanthi Nigianni, Katrina Schlunke and Nicholas Thoburn.

Cover Image: Richard Lindner, Boy with Machine, 1954. Reproduced courtesy of estate of Richard Lindner.

CONTENTS 

Jeremy Gilbert Editorial
Jeremy Gilbert Deleuzian Politics? A Survey and Some Suggestions
Véronique Bergen Politics as the Orientation of Every Assemblage
Rosi Braidotti On Putting the Active Back into Activism
Jorge Camacho A Tragic Note: On Negri And Deleuze in The Light of the 'Argentinazo'
Claire Colebrook Queer Vitalism
Patricia MacCormack Becoming Vulva: Flesh, Fold, Infinity
Chrysanthi Nigianni Becoming-Woman by Breaking The Waves
Nicholas Thoburn Weatherman, the Militant Diagram, and the Problem of Political Passion
Éric Alliez, Deleuzian Politics? A Roundtable Discussion
Claire Colebrook, Peter Hallward, Nicholas Thoburn 

REVIEWS 
Katrina Schlunke Sexual Temporalities
Katrina Schlunke Organising Modern Emotions 

BOOKNOTES
David W. Hill, Andrew Blake, Kate O'Riordan