Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism - Hardcover

by Rick Dolphijn (Editor), Rosi Braidotti (Editor)

In the first volume to place Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy in the context of contemporary fascism, international contributors uncover and reflect upon the anti- and non-fascist ethics situated in their framework and that of the scholarship that followed after.
The 'new philosophy' that Deleuze and Guattari propose to us is engaged and situated and it asks us to map urgent issues, not by opposing ourselves to it, but by mapping how it is part of the everyday, and of ourselves. The global rise of fascism today demands a rigid and careful analysis. The concepts and themes that Deleuze (and Guattari) handed to us in their extensive oeuvre can be of immense help in capturing its micropolitics and macropolitics.
All of the contributions in this volume have a keen eye on the practices of fascism today, meaning that they all show us, very much in line with Deleuze's thinking, how fascism works. The book is organized in three parts. The first part (21st century fascisms) focuses on the global threats technologies and algorithmic realities; the second part (situated fascisms) holds analyses of fascisms at work in different parts of the contemporary world; the third part deals with patriarchal fascism and offers concrete case-studies of sexualized and genderized modes of oppression.

Back Jacket

Anti- and non-fascist ethics are situated in the framework of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and of the scholarship that followed The philosophy that Deleuze and Guattari propose is engaged and situated and requires us to map urgent issues, not by opposing ourselves to it, but by mapping how it is part of the everyday, and of ourselves. The global rise of fascism today demands careful analysis. The concepts and themes that Deleuze and Guattari gave us, within the scope of their work, is immensely helpful in capturing its micropolitics and macropolitics. The range of international contributors to this volume have a keen eye on the practices of fascism today and, in line with Deleuze's thinking, they show us how fascism works. Organised into three parts: the first part - 21st century fascisms - focuses on the global threats of technologies and algorithmic realities; the second part - situated fascisms - analyses fascisms at work in different parts of the contemporary world; the third part deals with patriarchal fascism and offers concrete case-studies of sexualized and genderized modes of oppression. Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. Rick Dolphijn is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University.

Author Biography

Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University and is an Honorary Associate Professor at Hong Kong University. He is a member of the Sandberg Institute.

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. She holds honorary doctorates from Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013; is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), 2009; Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2014; Knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005). Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011), Columbia University Press; The Posthuman 2013 and Posthuman Knowledge 2019, Polity Press; in 2016 she co-edited with Paul Gilroy: Conflicting Humanities and in 2018 with Maria Hlavajova: The Posthuman Glossary, both with Bloomsbury Academic.