Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and Politics
- 1 Power, Theory and Praxis
- 2 Deleuze and the Political Ontology of ‘The Friend’ (philos)
- 3 Molecular Revolutions: The Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze
- 4 Schizoanalysis, Nomadology, Fascism
- 5 What is a Militant?
- 6 Bourgeois Thermodynamics
- 7 The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism
- 8 Deleuze, Materialism and Politics
- 9 Becoming-Democratic
- 10 Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari
- 11 People and Fabulation
- 12 Micropolitical Associations
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
1 - Power, Theory and Praxis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and Politics
- 1 Power, Theory and Praxis
- 2 Deleuze and the Political Ontology of ‘The Friend’ (philos)
- 3 Molecular Revolutions: The Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze
- 4 Schizoanalysis, Nomadology, Fascism
- 5 What is a Militant?
- 6 Bourgeois Thermodynamics
- 7 The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism
- 8 Deleuze, Materialism and Politics
- 9 Becoming-Democratic
- 10 Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari
- 11 People and Fabulation
- 12 Micropolitical Associations
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
Whether we are Christians or atheists, in our universal schizophrenia, we need reasons to believe in this world.
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-ImageIn the long aftermath of May '68, an event which many French intellectuals came to think of as a ‘failed revolt’, the question of power – what it is, how it functions, who has it and who does not – was the principal concern of the majority of France's leading intellectuals. Along with the interrelated questions concerning the possibility of resistance and (more concretely) the possibility of political action itself, power was the uppermost concern of Louis Althusser, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Jean Baudrillard (albeit ambivalently), Pierre Bourdieu, Cornelius Castoriadis, Hélène Cixous, Régis Debray, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-François Lyotard, Nicos Poulantzas, Jacques Rancière and Paul Virilio. Very far from homogeneous in their political and philosophical allegiances, though most would own to a Left-orientation, providing it was clear that didn't mean they were Marxists (or, in the case of Althusser and Althusserians like Balibar and Rancière, they would own to a Left-orientation providing it was understood that meant they were a very particular type of Marxist), there is a surprising degree of consistency across the quite diverse body of work produced by these writers in the decade after May '68 concerning the question of power.
There was, for instance, broad acceptance of the idea that power is not a simple matter of coercion or repression, the domination of one group of people by another.
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- Deleuze and Politics , pp. 13 - 34Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2008