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Deleuze and Guattari
Selected Writings
Kenneth Surin
Duke University, USA
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Contents
Preface viii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations x
1 The “Epochality” of Deleuzean Thought … 1
2 Deleuze’s Three Ontologies 15
3 Was Deleuze a Materialist? 23
4 Force as a Deleuzean Concept 31
5 On Producing the Concept of the Image-Concept 41
6 “A Question of an Axiomatic of Desires”: The Deleuzean
Imagination of Geoliterature 51
7 “Existing Not as a Subject but as a Work of Art”—The Task of
Ethics? or Aesthetics? 73
8 The Socius and Life 85
9 “1000 Political Subjects …” 91
10 The Radical Event? 117
11 On Producing (the Concept of) Solidarity 125
12 What Is Becoming-Animal? The Politics of Deleuze and Guattari’s
“Strange Notion” 139
13 The Society of Control and the Managed Citizen 147
14 The Undecidable and the Fugitive: Mille Plateaux and
the State-Form 163
15 “Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”: Going
“Beyond Marx” in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze 173
16 Mao’s “On Contradiction,” Mao-Hegel/Mao-Deleuze 191
Notes 203
Bibliography 238
Index 251
Preface
This collection of sixteen essays (five previously unpublished) contains essays
I’ve written on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the last couple of decades.
The first essay (Chapter 14) was published in 1991, the most recent in 2018.
Nearly every essay was written in response to invitations to give lectures or
conference presentations, as well contributions to journals or essay collections.
The task of revising the essays to efface all traces of oral delivery or obvious
conformity to the prescribed agenda of a journal issue or book collection would
have been impossible. I’ve limited myself to forms of updating that remain
within the realm of plausibility, the addition and removal of paragraphs here and
there, and of course correcting typographical errors. Where the same passages
are to be found in more than one essay, I’ve allowed them to stand so as not to
compromise the flow or coherence of my argument in that particular essay.
The essays range fairly widely. One (Essay 1), for a commemorative issue of
Theory, Culture and Society shortly after Deleuze’s death, is an attempt, futile
of course, to assess his philosophical legacy. Four (Essays 2, 3, 4, 5) deal fairly
specifically with Deleuzean themes and concepts—his ontologies (Essay 2),
his materialism (Essay 3), his concept of force (Essay 4), and his theory of the
image-narrative-concept (Essay 5). A couple deal with his relation to other
thinkers (Essays 11 [Raymond Williams] and 15 [Antonio Negri]). One deals
with Deleuze and literature (Essay 6), another with Deleuze and ethics/aesthetics
(Essay 7). The remaining essays deal with themes in political philosophy,
especially Marxism.
I am grateful to Janell Watson for much help given in countless ways while
most of these essays were written. My indebtedness to others is expressed in the
individual essays.
Acknowledgments
I thank the publishers for permission to reprint material from the following
articles and book chapters:
“The Epochality of Deleuzean Thought,” Theory, Culture, and Society 14
(1997), pp. 9–21.
“Force,” in Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, ed. Charles J. Stivale (Montreal:
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), pp. 19–30.
“On Producing the Concept of the Concept-Image,” in Releasing the Image:
From Literature to New Media, ed. Robert Mitchell and Jacques Khalip (Palo
Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 171–80, 266–7.
“‘A Question of an Axiomatics of Desires’: The Deleuzean Imagination of
Geoliterature,” in Deleuze and Literature, ed. Ian Buchanan and John Marks
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), pp. 167–93.
“‘Existing Not as a Subject but as a Work of Art’: The Task of Ethics or
Aesthetics?,” in Deleuze and Ethics, ed. Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 142–53.
“1000 Political Subjects,” in Deleuze and the Social World, ed. Adrian Parr and
Ian Buchanan (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 57–78.
“On Producing (the Concept) of Solidarity,” Rethinking Marxism 23 (2010),
pp. 446–57.
“Control Societies and the Managed Citizen,” Junctures 8 (2007), pp. 11–25.
“The Undecidable and the Fugitive: Mille Plateaux and the State-Form,”
SubStance, #66 (1991), pp. 102–13.
“‘Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation’: Going ‘Beyond Marx’
in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze,” Rethinking MARXISM, 7
(1994), pp. 9–27.
“Mao’s “On Contradiction,” Mao-Hegel/Mao-Deleuze.” CLCWeb: Comparative
Literature and Culture 20.3 (2018): <https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3248>
