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Deleuze and Guattari’s Historiophilosophy: Philosophical Thought and its Historical Milieu
This paper will examine the relation between philosophical thought and the various milieus in which such thought takes place using the late work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It will argue that Deleuze and Guattari's assessment of this relation involves a rearticulation of philosophy as an historiophilosophy. To claim that Deleuze and Guattari promote such a form of philosophy is contentious, as their work is often noted for implementing an ontological distinction between becoming and history, whereby the former is associated with the act of creation and the latter with retrospective representations of this creative process. Furthermore, when elaborating on the creative nature of philosophical thought, Deleuze and Guattari explicitly refer to philosophy as a geophilosophy that is in contrast to history. Nevertheless, this paper will demonstrate that far from abandoning the category of history, Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of the relations between philosophical thought and relative milieus suggests to us an historical ontology and methodology that is a critical part of philosophy's nature.
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From Structuralism to Poststructuralism
As the immediate precursor to poststructuralism, the movement or paradigm of structuralism was naturally responsible for determining many of poststructuralism’s salient features. But what was structuralism, and how are we to understand its transformation into poststructuralism? In this chapter I will address these issues by first outlining the contours of what might be called the image of structuralism. An appreciation of this image is necessary for a full understanding of the shift from structuralism to poststructuralism. Nevertheless, an acknowledgement of its limitations, of the inconsistencies it suppresses and the inaccuracies it perpetrates, is equally necessary. As I will therefore demonstrate,
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Who Are Our Nomads Today?: Deleuze's Political Ontology and the Revolutionary Problematic
This paper will address the question of the revolution in Gilles Deleuze's political ontology. More specifically, it will explore what kind of person Deleuze believes is capable of bringing about genuine and practical transformation. Contrary to the belief that a Deleuzian programme for change centres on the facilitation of 'absolute deterritorialisation' and pure 'lines of flight', I will demonstrate how Deleuze in fact advocates a more cautious and incremental if not conservative practice that promotes the ethic of prudence. This will be achieved in part through a critical analysis of the dualistic premises upon which much Deleuzian political philosophy is based, alongside the topological triads that can also be found in his work. In light of this critique, Deleuze's thoughts on what it is to be and become a revolutionary will be brought into relief, giving rise to the question: who really is Deleuze's nomad, his true revolutionary or figure of transformation?
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Why wasn’t Capitalism born in China? – Deleuze and the Philosophy of Non-Events
[...]I will set out Deleuze and Guattari's immediate answer, canvassing their machinic ontology and the significance that they place on immanence to the emergence of capitalism. \"11 Thus axioms do not offer their own exegeses, but rather provide the formal system and operational field in which differential relations and capitalizations occur. Because of this, the axiomatic axis of capitalism is uniquely positioned to interface with the processes of decoding and becoming that define its other side. [...]let us momentarily focus on the particular word in this phrase that invokes the realm of possibility (by which I mean, in Deleuze's terminology, virtuality): could. [...]the question of capitalism's non-birth in China draws our attention to not only the contingency of history, but the historical nature of contingency and creativity.
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Deleuze's Untimely: Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche
This chapter studies the expression of Nietzsche's untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. The concepts of immanence and the outside form a relation throughout Deleuze and Guattari's work that leads to their radical conception of the event, and in particular the historical event. As we see in What is Philosophy?, in conjunction with Foucault's actual and Péguy's aternal, the Nietzschean untimely provides a touchstone for Deleuze and Guattari's explanation of creativity in the historical event: the unhistorical is located as both the force and the site from which the sedimentations of history emerge. But while Deleuze and Guattari share in Nietzsche's attempt to facilitate creations counter to our historical present, it cannot be said that they explicitly mirror (or indeed faithfully recount) Nietzsche's analysis of history, its terms, and its effects in society. By tracing the various uses of the untimely throughout Deleuze's work, a differential ‘becoming/history’ materialises that simultaneously enhances aspects of Nietzsche's thoughts on the untimely whilst conflating others.This conflation can be located on both sides of the differential: while the forces that form Nietzsche's untimely topology – the ahistorical and the suprahistorical – are transformed into synonyms of ‘becoming’, ‘history’ also undergoes a transmutation that effectively attaches to it forms of historicism to which Nietzsche was opposed. The result of these conflations is the replacement of Nietzsche's project of developing a history for the future with a Deleuzian philosophy of the future, and consequently a hostility towards the figure of history.
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The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism
This Companion surveys the challenges and provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva, Irigaray, Barthes and Baudrillard. For students and researchers in philosophy, literature, art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies.
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Deleuze's Untimely: Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche
This chapter studies the expression of Nietzsche's untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. The concepts of immanence and the outside form a relation throughout Deleuze and Guattari's work that leads to their radical conception of the event, and in particular the historical event. As we see in What is Philosophy?, in conjunction with Foucault's actual and Péguy's aternal, the Nietzschean untimely provides a touchstone for Deleuze and Guattari's explanation of creativity in the historical event: the unhistorical is located as both the force and the site from which the sedimentations of history emerge. But while Deleuze and Guattari share in Nietzsche's attempt to facilitate creations counter to our historical present, it cannot be said that they explicitly mirror (or indeed faithfully recount) Nietzsche's analysis of history, its terms, and its effects in society. By tracing the various uses of the untimely throughout Deleuze's work, a differential 'becoming/history' materialises that simultaneously enhances aspects of Nietzsche's thoughts on the untimely whilst conflating others.
This conflation can be located on both sides of the differential: while the forces that form Nietzsche's untimely topology - the ahistorical and the suprahistorical - are transformed into synonyms of 'becoming', 'history' also undergoes a transmutation that effectively attaches to it forms of historicism to which Nietzsche was opposed. The result of these conflations is the replacement of Nietzsche's project of developing a history for the future with a Deleuzian philosophy of the future, and consequently a hostility towards the figure of history.
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