Deleuze and Anarchism
Edited by Chantelle Gray van Heerden, Aragorn Eloff
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
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.
AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction
Section I: Deleuze and Guattari and Anarchism
1. Crowned Anarchy-Anarchy-Anarchism – Countereffectuating Deleuze and Guattari’s Politics Aragorn Eloff
2. No Gods! No Masters!: From Ontological to Political AnarchismThomas Nail
3. Absolutely Deterritorial: Deleuze, Indigeneity and Ethico-Aesthetic Anarchism as StrategyAndrew Stones
4. Micropolitics and Social Change: Deleuze and Guattari for Anarchist Theory and Practice Paul Raekstad
Section II: Theoretical Perspectives
5. Deleuze and the Anarchist TraditionNathan Jun
6. Immanent Ethics and Forms of RepresentationElizabet Vasileva
7. Deleuze and Stirner: Ties, Tensions and RiftsElmo Feiten
8. Anarchy and Institution: A New Sadean PossibilityNatascia Tosel
Section III: Relays of a Different Kind
9. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?: Coming to Terms With DeleuzeJesse Cohn
10. Deterritorialising Anarchist Geographies: A Deleuzian ApproachAlejandro de la Torre and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre
11. ‘Visible Invisibility’ as Machinic ResistanceChristoph Hubatschke
12. Pierre Clastres and the Amazonian War MachineGregory Kalyniuk
13. From the Autochthonousphere to the Allochthonousphere: Escaping the Logics of Plantations and the Moving TargetChantelle Gray van Heerden
Notes on ContributorsIndex
This exciting collection opens valuable pathways for experimental political action and thinking beyond the dogmatic image of thought, urgently needed as bulwarks against the colonial-capitalist hegemony of territoriality, possessive accumulation and status hierarchy.
