Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0012
Christoph Hubatschke
This chapter discusses Deleuze, Guattari and anarchism in terms of contemporary anarchist praxis. Specifically, Christoph Hubatschke thinks about the politics of the face. In the wake of the events of 1968, Guattari, impressed by this extraordinary revolutionary upheaval, wrote a short text entitled Machine and Structure. In this text, Guattari introduced the notion of the machine for the first time in order to describe a new form of chaosmotic organising – a form of revolutionary politics without a party, without a specified programme and, most importantly, without representation.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0004
A. Stones
Andrew Stones accounts in this chapter for the ways in which relative and absolute deterritorialisation are used strategically by indigenous activists and theorists. In particular, he thinks about the relations between struggles ‘for’ freedom – or against the structure of domination – and struggles ‘of’ freedom – or struggles that take place within the structure of domination. Turning to examples of both anarchist and indigenous struggles in India, Africa and Australia, he shows how Deleuze’s concepts of ‘relative’ and ‘absolute’ deterritorialisation offer concrete strategic resources for resistance to settler colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0008
E. Feiten
In this chapter, the author demonstrates the potential that a combination of Deleuze and Stirner holds for (post)anarchism. A critical reading of Deleuze’s depiction of Stirner in his work on Nietzsche opens up the possibility of combining their thought. The comparative analysis of Deleuze and Stirner goes beyond the work of Saul Newman and draws on Gabriel Kuhn’s application of schizo-revolutionary thought and minoritarian becoming to an anarchist, anti-fascist mode of existence, highlighting the strong links to Stirner’s creative nothingness and the self-dissolving, never-being ego.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0009
Natascia Tosel
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the concept of anarchy in relation to that of institutions, both conceived of in a Deleuzian way of thinking. The starting point is the remark which Deleuze made about Sade in Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty (1967), where Deleuze talks about the possible strategies to criticise law. According to Sade, law belongs to a second nature and depends on a principle which belongs, instead, to the first nature: this principle is anarchy, understood like an institution. Following Sade, Deleuze seems to understand the possibility to link the institution and anarchy and it is this connection that forms the basis of this chapter.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0006
Nathan J. Jun
In this chapter, the author draws on ideas from Michael Freeden’s theory of ideology to show that the so-called anarchist tradition is best regarded as a constellation of diffuse and evolving concepts rather than a bounded historical reality. This, in turn, allows one to distinguish between what he calls “anarchist” thought (i.e., thought that emerges within and in response to historical anarchist movements) and “anarchistic” thought (i.e., thought that emerges outside historical anarchist movements but is conceptually harmonious with various fundamental “anarchist” commitments).
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0003
Thomas Nail
The aim of this chapter is to clarify one the most significant misunderstandings of Deleuze and Guattari’s political theory: the difference between their conceptions of ontological anarchism and political anarchism. The author’s thesis is that equating these two kinds anarchism undermines the theory and practice of political anarchism. He also argues more generally that there is no necessary relation between ontological anarchism and political anarchism and, finally, shows the practical and analytic strength of a strictly political theory of anarchism derived from Deleuze and Guattari’s work.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0011
Alejandro de la Torre Hernández, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre
This chapter outlines a geography of historical anarchism (between 1871 and 1918) from three main ideas in which the authors bring together interdisciplinary contributions from geography and history, with a number of theoretical postulates from Deleuze and Guattari. The first examines the symbolic geography and imaginaries regarding anarchism; the second the militant migration and the connexions between groups around the world, analysed through anarchist newspaper records; and the third covers the prior two issues by contrasting capitalism expansion with anarchism expansion.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0007
Elizabeth N. Vasileva
Among the many recurring themes in Deleuzeʼs writings is the problem of representation. This can be traced as early as Difference and Repetition, but his critique of representation also played a major role in his collaborations with Guattari and continue in later writings such as What is Philosophy? This chapter aims at extending and applying this critique to ethics and, more specifically, to (post)anarchist ethics.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0013
Gregory Kalyniuk
In addressing the relation between Deleuze’s philosophy and anarchism, no discussion would be complete without considering Pierre Clastres’ ethnographic research on the stateless peoples of the Amazon basin, which forms a key source for the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This chapter focuses on Clastres’ analysis of political power in primitive societies—particularly its regulation through collective levelling mechanisms which avert social division by means of a systematic dispersal of power.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439077.003.0002
Aragorn Eloff
In this chapter I propose that Deleuze and Guattari's work does in fact suggest an anarchist political sensibility; an anarchism that is able both to analyse and respond effectively to the conditions of the present and to propose and create something genuinely new. In fact, I argue, it is perhaps only anarchism - a life politics of anarchism that is the differenciation of anarchy as the becoming of the crowned anarchy and nomadic distributions of the virtual - that sufficiently responds to the full scope of the political philosophy Deleuze and Guattari developed throughout their lives, which is perhaps why so many anarchists have come to recognise aspects of their theories and practices in the active nihilism of joyful encounters.
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