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Deleuze and the Social is the first book to focus on the implications of Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari's thinking on the social sciences and organization. Topics include order, subjectivity, art, capitalism, and the construction of a social ontology. Each chapter shows the strength of a Deleuzian and Guattarian approach and raises further questions. How is social order constituted? How is resistance possible between the rush of capitalism and the overcoding of the State? How are thinking and living possible?
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Chapter Title i Deleuze and the Social Deleuze Connections ‘It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.’ Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues General Editor Ian Buchanan Editorial Advisory Board Keith Ansell-Pearson Rosi Braidotti Claire Colebrook Tom Conley Gregg Lambert Adrian Parr Paul Patton Patricia Pisters Titles in the Series Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory Ian Buchanan and John Marks (eds), Deleuze and Literature Mark Bonta and John Protevi (eds), Deleuze and Geophilosophy Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (eds), Deleuze and Music Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert (eds), Deleuze and Space Ian Buchanan and Adrian Parr (eds), Deleuze and the Contemporary World Forthcoming Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), Deleuze and Philosophy Chapter Title iii Deleuze and the Social Edited by Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sørensen Edinburgh University Press © in the edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2006 © in the individual contributions is retained by the authors Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in 10.5/13 Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester, and printed and bound in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wilts A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0 7486 2092 3 (hardback) 978 0 7486 2092 0 (hardback) 0 7486 2093 1 (paperback) 978 0 7486 2093 7 (paperback) The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Chapter Title v Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Deleuze and the Social: Is there a D-function? Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sørensen vii 1 I. Order and Organisation 19 1 Order, Exteriority and Flat Multiplicities in the Social Paul Patton 2 The Trembling Organisation: Order, Change and the Philosophy of the Virtual Torkild Thanem and Stephen Linstead 3 The Others of Hierarchy: Rhizomatics of Organising Martin Kornberger, Carl Rhodes and René ten Bos 21 39 II. Subjectivity and Transformation 75 4 In the Mean Time: Vitalism, Affects and Metamorphosis in Organisational Change Peter Lohmann and Chris Steyaert 5 I Knew there were Kisses in the Air Thomas Bay 6 Becoming-Cyborg: Changing the Subject of the Social? Chris Land 58 77 96 112 III. Art and the Outside 133 7 Practical Deleuzism and Postmodern Space Ian Buchanan 8 Anti-Oedipus – Thirty Years On (Between Art and Politics) Éric Alliez 135 151 vi Contents IV. Capitalism and Resistance 9. The Concepts of Life and the Living in the Societies of Control Maurizio Lazzarato 10 Nomad Citizenship and Global Democracy Eugene W. Holland 11 Deleuze, Change, History Jussi Vähämäki and Akseli Virtanen 169 171 191 207 V. Social Constitution and Ontology 229 12 Society with/out Organs Niels Albertsen and Bülent Diken 13 Deleuzian Social Ontology and Assemblage Theory Manuel DeLanda