Deleuze and Anarchism
Series: Deleuze Connections
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781474439084
Copyright date: 2019
Description: ### Explores Deleuze and Guattari’s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy

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 more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State.

Both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May ’68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy. However, they never explicitly sustained a discussion of anarchism in their work. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and they referred to in very different senses throughout their writings. This is the first collection to bring Deleuze and Guattari together with anarchism in a focused and sustained way.

### Key Features

* The only book to focus exclusively on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and anarchism
* Includes an anthropological perspective, a line of enquiry pioneered by Pierre Clastres, referred to by Deleuze and Guattari and recently renewed by contemporary anthropologists such as Eduardo Vivieros de Castro and Eduardo Kohn
* Provides historical overviews alongside current anarchist applications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work

### Contributors

**Jesse Cohn**, Purdue University Northwest, USA.

**Aragorn Eloff**, independent researcher and Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa.

**Elmo Feiten**, independent researcher.

**Chantelle Gray van Heerden**, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa.

**Christoph Hubatschke**, University of Vienna, Austria.

**Nathan Jun**, Midwestern State University, USA.

**Gregory Kalyniuk**, independent researcher.

**Thomas Nail**, University of Denver, USA.

**Paul Raekstad**, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

**Andrew Stones**, University of Warwick, UK.

**Alejandro de la Torre Hernández**, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico

**Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre**, University of Texas, Austin.

**Natascia Tose**, independent researcher.

**Elizabet Vasileva**, Loughborough University, UK.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction, Chantelle Gray van Heerden and Aragorn Eloff; label: I
title: Deleuze and Guattari and Anarchism; label: 1.
title: Crowned Anarchy-Anarchy-Anarchism – Countereffectuating Deleuze and Guattari’s Politics, Aragorn Eloff
pagenum: 11; label: 2.
title: No Gods! No Masters!: From Ontological to Political Anarchism, Thomas Nail
pagenum: 31; label: 3.
title: Absolutely Deterritorial: Deleuze, Indigeneity and Ethico-Aesthetic Anarchism as Strategy, Andrew Stones
pagenum: 47; label: 4.
title: Micropolitics and Social Change: Deleuze and Guattari for Anarchist Theory and Practice, Paul Raekstad
pagenum: 65; label: II
title: Theoretical Perspectives; label: 5.
title: Deleuze and the Anarchist Tradition, Nathan Jun
pagenum: 85; label: 6.
title: Immanent Ethics and Forms of Representation, Elizabet Vasileva
pagenum: 103; label: 7.
title: Deleuze and Stirner: Ties, Tensions and Rifts, Elmo Feiten
pagenum: 120; label: 8.
title: Anarchy and Institution: A New Sadean Possibility, Natascia Tosel
pagenum: 136; label: III
title: Relays of a Different Kind; label: 9.
title: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?: Coming to Terms With Deleuze, Jesse Cohn
pagenum: 155; label: 10.
title: Deterritorialising Anarchist Geographies: A Deleuzian Approach, Alejandro de la Torre and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre
pagenum: 182; label: 11.
title: ‘Visible Invisibility’ as Machinic Resistance, Christoph Hubatschke
pagenum: 202; label: 12.
title: Pierre Clastres and the Amazonian War Machine, Gregory Kalyniuk
pagenum: 218; label: 13.
title: From the Autochthonousphere to the Allochthonousphere: Escaping the Logics of Plantations and the Moving Target, Chantelle Gray van Heerden
pagenum: 237; title: Notes on Contributors
pagenum: 256; title: Index
pagenum: 260