This has been Ian Buchanan’s guiding motto throughout his academic career and continues to inform his reading of Deleuze and Guattari. In these 20 essays written over a 20-year period, Buchanan shines a light on the experimental nature of the work of Deleuze and Guattari. He shows it to be constitutively incomplete as their project was an attempt to understand our contemporary situation which is constantly changing and can therefore never be understood in a complete way.
Introduction
Part I: Method
1. A Brief History of Schizoanalysis
2. Desire and Ethics
3. The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs
Part II: Film
4. Five Theses for an Actually Existing Schizoanalysis of Cinema
5. Schizoanalysis and The Birds
6. Symptomatology and Racial Politics in Australia
Part III: Space
7. Treatise on Militarism
8. Occupy Without Counting
9. Schizoanalysis and Space
10. Space in the Age of Non-Place
11. The Disappearance of Boredom
12. Architecture and Control Society
Part IV: Analysis
13. Schizoanalysis and the Internet
14. Deleuze and ‘Life’
15. Deleuze and American (Mythopoeic) Literature
16. Schizoanalysis and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
17. Schizoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Part V: Assemblages
18 The ‘Clutter Assemblage’
19. The Little Hans Assemblage
20. The Self-Help Assemblage.
Ian Buchanan has long been a leading figure in Deleuze and Guattari studies whose clear, original voice has been an inspiration to many. This collection of essays now makes the diversity of Buchanan’s work available in a single place in what will no doubt become an essential secondary source.
In this engaging study, Buchanan combines clear exegesis, pithy summary, humorous asides and provocative examples to promote schizoanalysis as a new, open-ended mode of engaging issues across a wide range of disciplines. Bracing and insightful, this is an essential contribution to Deleuze and Guattari studies.