Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures

Deleuze and Guattari's work resonates with core anarchist principles such as prefiguration, careful experimentation, and emergent strategies to create a feeling that life is worth living. This involves affirming all of chance and fabulating new modes of existence.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Deleuze and Guattari, despite not explicitly identifying as anarchists, exhibit a profound understanding of revolutionary subjectivity and engage in active political experimentation. Their individual and collective work defies the apparent oversight by consistently exploring the concept of revolutionary subjectivity and employing innovative strategies to create a sense of worth in life. Chantelle Gray contends that while we cannot categorically label them as anarchists, their work aligns closely with fundamental anarchist principles such as prefiguration, cautious experimentation, and emergent approaches aimed at fostering a positive perception of existence. This entails embracing both joyous affects and melancholic passions, necessitating the affirmation of chance and the imaginative exploration of new modes of being. By integrating the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with the theories and practices of anarchism, this book showcases that the act of fabricating the future is a noetic endeavor, transforming what initially appeared senseless into a reasonable proposition.

Deleuze and Guattari, despite not explicitly identifying as anarchists, exhibit a profound understanding of revolutionary subjectivity and engage in active political experimentation. Their individual and collective work defies the apparent oversight by consistently exploring the concept of revolutionary subjectivity and employing innovative strategies to create a sense of worth in life. Chantelle Gray contends that while we cannot categorically label them as anarchists, their work aligns closely with fundamental anarchist principles such as prefiguration, cautious experimentation, and emergent approaches aimed at fostering a positive perception of existence. This entails embracing both joyous affects and melancholic passions, necessitating the affirmation of chance and the imaginative exploration of new modes of being. By integrating the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with the theories and practices of anarchism, this book showcases that the act of fabricating the future is a noetic endeavor, transforming what initially appeared senseless into a reasonable proposition.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350334915