In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari claim that a general theory of society must be generalised flows. This is hardly straightforward claim, this paper attempts to examine the grounds for it. Why should socio-political based on flows rather than, say, social contract, or State, questions legitimation revolution, numerous other possible candidates? The concept flow (and related notions code stock), I argue, derived from contemporary economic theory, most notably John Maynard Keynes. remained...

Difference and Repetition might be said to have brought about a Deleuzian Revolution in philosophy comparable Kant's Copernican Revolution. Kant had denounced the three great terminal points of traditional metaphysics – self, world God as transcendent illusions, Deleuze pushes revolution its limit by positing transcendental field that excludes coherence favour an immanent differential plane impersonal individuations pre-individual singularities. In process, he introduces numerous conceptual...

In this paper, I would simply like to sketch out what take be the component elements of Deleuze's concept virtual. (1) My thesis is this: philosophy can accurately described as a transcendental philosophy--a empiricism, he himself puts it--although Deleuze defines field in completely different manner than does Kant, who invented term. Kant's genius, according Deleuze, was have conceived purely immanent critique reason, that did not seek, within errors produced by external causes, but rather...

This paper is a critical review article of Paul Patton's book, Deleuze and the Political , analyzes relationship between 'liberal' tradition political philosophy. It focuses on three concepts drawn from liberal - normativity, freedom judgment in each case shows how these are capable being transformed light Deleuze's For Deleuze, truly 'normative' principle must be creation as well critique: it not only provide norms for condemning abuses power, but also means transforming that have...

In an interview in 1995, shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze was asked by French scholar Didier Eribon about relationship with Jacques Lacan. response, told the following story: Lacan noticed me when he devoted a session of seminar to my book on Sacher-Masoch [1967].1 I told—although never knew anything more than this—that had hour book. And then came conference at Lyon, where teaching. He gave absolutely unbelievable lecture.... It there that uttered famous formula, " Psychoanalysis...