Description
This volume addresses the issue of freedom in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. This is all the more challenging in that Deleuze-Guattari almost never use the term freedom, preferring instead, the concept of the refrain. The essays collected in the volume show that freedom has been understood in a remarkably narrow sense and that in fact freedom operates as the refrain in every realm of thought and creation. The motivating approach in these essays is Deleuze-Guattari’s emphasis on the irreality of media and capitalistic sign regimes, which they perceive to have taken over even the practices of philosophy, the arts, and science. By offering a clear and engaging treatment of the underexplored issue of freedom, this volume moves the discussion of Deleuze-Guattari’s philosophy forward in ways that will appeal to researchers in Continental philosophy and a wide range of other disciplines.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Freedom’s Refrains, Deleuze, Guattari, and Philosophy
Dorothea Olkowski
Translator’s Prologue
Constantin V. Boundas
Part I: Infinite Speeds and the Machine
1. Deleuze and the Freedom of the Machines
Jean-Clet Martin
2. Infinite Speeds and Practical Reason: A Kinematics of the Concept in What is Philosophy?
Michael Ardoline
Part II: Philosophy and Language
3. Try Madness: Creation and the Crystalline Brain
Dorothea Olkowski
4. Sense and Literality: Why There Are No Metaphors in Deleuze’s Philosophy
Daniel W. Smith
5. Who are Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae?
Gregg Lambert
Part III: Beyond Politics
6. Kafka and Melville: The Same Struggle for a People to Come?
Catarina Pombo Nabais
7. Affective Politics and "Crisis": The Examples of the HIV-positive Women’s Public Denouncement and of the Refugees’ Confinement
Sotiria-Ismini Gounari
8. Political Improvisation and "the Long March through the Institutions"
Eugene W. Holland
9. Geophilosophy and Revolution in Gilles Deleuze
Mohamed Moufli
Part IV: Art and Creation
10. Dismantling the Land(scape), Dismantling the Face
Philippe Mengue
11. Intensive Difference and Subjectivations
Pascale Criton
Part V: Deleuze and Others
12. Pluralism = Monism: What Deleuze Learns from Nietzsche and Spinoza
Alan Schrift
13. Deleuze and Guattari’s Geodynamism and Husserl’s Geostatism:
Two Cosmological Perspectives
Alain Beaulieu
14. Affirmations of the False and Bifurcations of the True: Deleuze’s Dialetheic and Stoic Fatalism
Corry Shores
