Demystifying Deleuze: An Introductory Assemblage of Crucial Concepts
The theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze has transformed cultural studies and has made a significant impact on disciplines as diverse as sociology, queer theory, feminist studies, film, music, and philosophy. Until recently his books were notorious for their density and eccentric flair. While there are a wide array of introductions that complement and clarify his work, this assemblage stands apart by shedding his concepts of jargon and stressing the crucial, radical core of his philosophical ideas. Demystifying Deleuze is a timely and approachable primer for students, scholars and critically-minded readers.
Book Details
Edited by: Rob Shields & Mickey Vallee
ISBN: 978-1-926958-20-0
Year: 2012
Price: $24.50 USD
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Actualization 11
Affects 13
Animal/Becoming-Animal 17
Arboroscent (compare Rhizomatic) 21
Art and Creativity 25
Assemblage 29
Becoming 33
Body without Organs (BwO) 37
Control/Societies of Control 41
Desire 47
Difference 51
Duration 53
Ecosophy 55
Emergence 59
Event 61
Fabulation 65
Faciality 67
Flow 69
Fold 71
Force 75
Haecceities 79
Image of Thought 83
Immanence/Plane of Immanence 87
Imperceptible (Becoming) 91
Intensity/Intensive 95
Line, Line of Flight 99
Machine 103
Machinic Assemblage 107
Majoritarian/Minoritarian 111
Minor 113
Molar/olecular 117
Multiplicity 121
Nomadic 125
Percepts 129
Plane of Composition 133
Plane of Consistency 137
Potential 141
Power 145
Refrain 149
Rhizome/Arborescent 153
Schizoanalysis 157
Sense 161
Smooth Space 163
Strata 167
Striated Space 171
Subject 175
Subjectification 179
Time Image/Action Image 183
Virtual/Actual 189
War Machine 195
Praise
“…an extraordinary accomplishment… assembles in one place all of Deleuze’s major concepts, and explains them in a manner that is clear, concise, and utterly precise… If Deleuze’s work really is, as he often said, a box of tools, then here are the most useful ones, sharpened, tempered, and ready to be put to work.”
Charles Barbour, University of Western Sydney, author of The Marx Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology
