Jeremy Gilbert and Chrysanthi Nigianni (guest editors)
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
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