Description
The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The "Deleuze and..." industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of representation.Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes: Text (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); Body (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway); Sex (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); Race (Jesus and the white faciality machine); and Politics (democracy, despots, pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsINTRODELEUZE (who and why?)Deleuze in TheoryThe Box and the MachineThe Deleuze AffectELand the Bible?1. TEXT (the Bible without organs)Part I: At the Bible Study with Foucault and DeleuzeWhat Is a Biblical Author?Knowledge, Power, DesirePart II: At the Bible Study with Deleuze and GuattariIn Flux, in AssemblageThe Book of Order-WordsA Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating NothingHow Do You Make Yourself a Bible without Organs?2. BODY (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway)Part I: The Eclipse of the Ancient BodyBodies Discoursed and PerformedBodies in a Noumenal NightPart II: The Ponderous Weight of the Incorporeal Synoptic BodyNonrepresenting the Synoptic BodyWhat Is a Body When It Is Incorporeal?The Mundane Miracle of Reading (Everywhere Enacted Daily)3. SEX (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses)Part I: The Deleuzian QueerDesiring and NamingThe Proletariat of Eros (Producing the Product Society Cannot Want)Part II: Queer MarkThe Coming, and Becoming, of ChristThe Crucified Body without OrgansThe Risen Body without Organs4. RACE (Jesus and the white faciality machine)Part I: The Matter of RaceWhite LightDark Matter, IJesus in JackbootsDark Matter, IIIs Race Structured Like a Language?Part II: Race and FaceAssembling RaceFacing RaceDefacing Race5. POLITICS (beastly boasts, apocalyptic affects)Unmethodological PreludeTweets from the Bottomless AbyssLarval Fascisms, Insect ApocalypsesHorrible HopePost-Beast PostscriptIndex
