Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures

201 Pages·2022·7.226 MB·English

by  Chantelle Gray

Anarchism After Deleuze
and Guattari
Deleuze and Guattari Encounters
Series Editor: Ian Buchanan, Director of the Institute for Social
Transformation Research, University of Wollongong, Australia
Titles available in the series:
Cinema After Deleuze
Richard Rushton
Philosophy After Deleuze
Joe Hughes
Political Theory After Deleuze
Nathan Widder
Theology After Deleuze
Kristien Justaert
Music After Deleuze
Edward Campbell
Space After Deleuze
Arun Saldanha
Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari
Chantelle Gray
Anarchism After Deleuze
and Guattari
Fabulating Futures
Chantelle Gray
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To Aragorn, and Britta
vi
Contents
List of figures viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations x
Introduction: The Deleuze-Guattari-anarchism machine 1
1 Statist realism 11
2 Axiomatics of the State 33
3 Capital: A nervous condition 57
4 Hacking for our lives 77
5 To believe in this world again 101
6 Constructing the revolution 125
Lines of leakage: The black flag, for life 149
Notes 153
Bibliography 160
Index 174
Figures
1 Bernie Sanders/Subcomandante Marcos image.
Courtesy of Carla Saunders and Anastasya Eliseeva 12
Acknowledgements
Heartfelt thanks to Aragorn Eloff, Jesse Cohn, Delphi Carstens, Evelien
Geertz, Anné Verhoef and Joff Bradley for reading parts, or all, of the
manuscript and providing me with invaluable comments and advice.
I would also like to say a very special thank you to the two blind
peer reviewers who offered thoughtful feedback for incorporation.
To Carla Saunders and Anastasya Eliseeva, my gratitude for helping
me render the Bernie Sanders/Subcomandante Marcos image. I am
grateful to Ian Buchanan for encouraging me to take up the project
but, more importantly, for camaraderie and academic generosity. My
appreciation goes out to Jade Grogan, Suzie Nash and the Bloomsbury
team for all their hard work. To my friends who supported me
through this project, and to the School of Philosophy at North-West
University, three cheers! Finally, to the many scholars and anarchists
who have shaped my thoughts and actions over the years, I am deeply
appreciative.