Ian Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 120053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4864-6495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
End your weekend”: Populism, identity, and the politics of energy transition assemblages in Australia
Haraway against Deleuze, or, Must We Like Pets
Haraway criticises Deleuze and Guattari for disparaging women and animals in their work on the notion of becoming-animal, but in doing so betrays the fact that she has not properly understood their concept. Her criticisms are disingenuous, though, because her own position on animals fails to live up to her proclaimed refusal of anthropocentrism. Her companion species project ignores or glosses over the extent to which human exceptionalism prevail…
Covid‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom
The appearance and integration of e‐bikes in public space is a source of much debate worldwide. This paper offers insights to these debates by reflecting on how Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage as territory helps us to understand the uptake of e‐bike commuter cycling during the Covid‐19 pandemic through empirical material from a study conducted in Sydney, Australia. Here we conceptualise commuter journeys in terms of processes of dete…
Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well-being
Cycling has cut across public health and policy forums in the last decade given trends in urban governance for liveability and uptake of cycling during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review discusses work that helps understand where, how, and why time spent cycling can contribute to health and well-being. The review discusses how cycling geographies offers an alternative to biomedical approaches that measure the risks versus the medical benefits of …
The languishing bike: Depleting Capacities of Cycling-Bodies
This article focuses on what may be depleting people’s capacity to ride a bike in cities. ‘Capacity to cycle’ is here understood not as a behavioural trait or in terms of infrastructure provision, but, taking our lead from Deleuze and Guattari, as a desiring cycling-machine. We argue this offers a way to envisage depleting, or enhancing, capacities to cycle as a working socio-material arrangement that make, remake, and unmake cycling-bodies and s…
The OECD policy-making assemblage
Recent analyses of education policy have used the concept of the assemblage to explain how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s education work contributes to global policy convergence and new forms of policy mobility. These analyses often use Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of assemblage to designate relations between things (as actors) and people (as actors). In this paper, we argue that Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage t…
Ungrievable lives and the ensemble of opinions
Cyclists are understood as vulnerable road users, but when cyclists are killed by drivers, media reports shared to social media are often accompanied by comments that aggressively rearticulate hierarchies of automobility. This article explores the news reporting, public social media sharing, and public social media comments about the deaths of two cyclists – Mike Hall and Cameron Frewer. To assemble an archive of relevant media material, we have …
The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari
20 essays written over a 20-year period that each, in their own way, attempt to invent a way of doing schizoanalysis Collects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world’s leading commentators on Deleuze and Guattari Provides a single place to encounter Buchanan’s work on Deleuze and Guattari Frames the text through schizoanalysis, which provides a stepping-off point as well as a guiding thread through the collection App…
Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari
Assemblage Theory and Method
What do we mean when we talk of an 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? Any and every thing, or more precisely, any and every kind of collection of things, could now be called an assemblage. The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the term’s range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there is in using this term and not some other term, or indeed no term…
Embodied spatial mobility (in)justice: Cycling refrains and pedalling geographies of men, masculinities, and love
This paper seeks to better understand spatial mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of cycling, discerned here as different pedalling rhythms in emergent territories that our participants narrate as “love.” Differential or striated mobility is not just the result of gendered, classed, and racialised social norms but is productive of the frictions and affordances of these social hierarchies. We build on these arguments by asking…
Critical antagonisms: Cycling and Territory
Slower speed limits and regulated passing distances between motor vehicles and bicycles are now taken-for-granted in policies aimed at increasing cycling participation rates by addressing safety concerns in societies dominated by cars. Rather than understanding distance as a measurement between two points, this paper addresses the sensibilities of proximity. This paper draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and the related concepts of assembla…
Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales
This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringi…
Assemblage Theory, or, the Future of an Illusion
If the development of assemblage theory does not need to be anchored in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, as increasingly seems to be the case in the social sciences, then cannot one say that the future of assemblage theory is an illusion? It is an illusion in the sense that it continues to act as though the concept was invented by Deleuze and Guattari, but because it does not feel obligated to draw on their work in its actual operation or develo…
Certeau, Michel de (1925–1986)
Born in 1925 in Chambéry, France, Michel de Certeau obtained degrees in classics and philosophy at the universities of Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1950 and was ordained in 1956. He completed a doctorate on the mystical writings of Jean‐Joseph Surin at the Sorbonne in 1960 and taught in Paris and San Diego. He died of stomach cancer in 1986
Space after Deleuze
Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognized as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the breadth of his engagements with space, place and movement. Focusing on pressing global issues such as urbanization, war, migration, and climate change, Arun Saldanha presents a detailed Deleuzian rejoinder to a number of theoretical and political questions about globalization in a variety of disciplines. This…
Assemblage Theory and Its Discontents
At least since the publication of Taylor Webb’s landmark work Teacher Assemblage there has been a high level of interest in Deleuze and Guattari’s work in Education Studies. Undoubtedly the major reason for this interest is the perceived close connection between Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage and Foucault’s concepts of power and governmentality. Webb explicitly situates his work at this intersection of these three concepts, with…
Jameson, Fredric
The Antinomies of Anti-Capitalism
A review of Liza Featherstone and United Students Against Sweatshops's Students against Sweatshops (Verso, New York, 2002
February 13, 2008, or the Baleful Enchantments of an Apology
This essay argues that the 2006 Ray Lawrence film Jindabyne can be read as a national allegory (in Fredric Jameson's sense of the word) for the cultural politics of the national apology to the indigenous people of Australia made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. It argues that the film portrays the cultural politics of that apology as both fraught and ambivalent
Gilles Deleuze
This chapter contains sections titled: The Person and the Context The Work Impact and Assessment Bibliography
Desire and Ethics
This paper argues that it is problematic for the future of Deleuze studies that it is difficult if not impossible to answer the question ‘what is the right thing to do?’ from a Deleuzian perspective. It then argues that one of the key reasons Deleuze studies has made limited progress in this area is its over-emphasis on desire and the corresponding tendency to extrapolate ‘ought’ from ‘is’, which as Hume showed is a category mistake. It proposes …
Deleuze and Politics
Chapter 1 Power, Theory and Praxis
Deleuze and politics
Against recent critique of Deleuze as a non-political thinker this text explores the specific innovations and interventions that Deleuze's profoundly political concepts bring to political thought and practice.
Assemblage Theory and Its Discontents
At least since the publication of Taylor Webb’s landmark work Teacher Assemblage there has been a high level of interest in Deleuze and Guattari’s work in Education Studies. Undoubtedly the major reason for this interest is the perceived close connection between Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage and Foucault’s concepts of power and governmentality. Webb explicitly situates his work at this intersection of these three concepts, with…
The Problem of the Body in Deleuze and Guattari, Or, What Can a Body Do
You never reach the Body without Organs, you can't reach it, you are forever attaining it, it is a limit. People ask, So what is this BwO? - But you're already on it, scurrying like vermin, grouping like a blind person, or running like a lunatic: desert traveller and nomad of the steppes. On it we sleep, live our waking lives, fight - fight and are fought - seek our place, experience untold happiness and fabulous defeats; on it we penetrate and a…
Assemblage Theory, or, the Future of an Illusion
If the development of assemblage theory does not need to be anchored in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, as increasingly seems to be the case in the social sciences, then cannot one say that the future of assemblage theory is an illusion? It is an illusion in the sense that it continues to act as though the concept was invented by Deleuze and Guattari, but because it does not feel obligated to draw on their work in its actual operation or develo…
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity: Towards an Agenda for Children’s Political Inclusion
This article examines the relationship between children, young people and the world of politics. Whilst the past decade or so has seen the development of initiatives that draw children within the political sphere, there are powerful political and social forces that position children as dependent subalterns and thus exclude them from political participation.We address this ambiguous situation by referring to competing discourses on childhood: the …
Language and Symbolic Power
Embodied spatial mobility (in)justice: Cycling refrains and pedalling geographies of men, masculinities, and love
This paper seeks to better understand spatial mobility justice with reference to the bodily sensations of cycling, discerned here as different pedalling rhythms in emergent territories that our participants narrate as “love.” Differential or striated mobility is not just the result of gendered, classed, and racialised social norms but is productive of the frictions and affordances of these social hierarchies. We build on these arguments by asking…
Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales
This paper seeks to better understand the lively city with reference to recent analysis of sonic affects, bodily sensations and emotions. The notion of ‘hearing contacts’, as it is usually deployed in discussion of the lively city, emphasises the social interactions with other people in a rather narrow anthropocentric way. Yet, it overlooks the diversity of felt and affective dimensions of city sounds. This paper takes up this challenge by bringi…
What's Left of Theory
The question about poetry after Auschwitz has been replaced with that of whether you could bear to read Adorno and Horkheimer next to the pool (Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism, p. 248).\nIn Cultural Studies today, the answer to this question would undoubtedly be no: theory and leisure cannot be enjoyed at the same time.\nA brief anecdote is a useful way of illustrating this. During a tutorial on Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (part of a course on popul…
The languishing bike: Depleting Capacities of Cycling-Bodies
This article focuses on what may be depleting people’s capacity to ride a bike in cities. ‘Capacity to cycle’ is here understood not as a behavioural trait or in terms of infrastructure provision, but, taking our lead from Deleuze and Guattari, as a desiring cycling-machine. We argue this offers a way to envisage depleting, or enhancing, capacities to cycle as a working socio-material arrangement that make, remake, and unmake cycling-bodies and s…
Covid‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom
The appearance and integration of e‐bikes in public space is a source of much debate worldwide. This paper offers insights to these debates by reflecting on how Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage as territory helps us to understand the uptake of e‐bike commuter cycling during the Covid‐19 pandemic through empirical material from a study conducted in Sydney, Australia. Here we conceptualise commuter journeys in terms of processes of dete…
Critical antagonisms: Cycling and Territory
Slower speed limits and regulated passing distances between motor vehicles and bicycles are now taken-for-granted in policies aimed at increasing cycling participation rates by addressing safety concerns in societies dominated by cars. Rather than understanding distance as a measurement between two points, this paper addresses the sensibilities of proximity. This paper draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and the related concepts of assembla…
Desire and Ethics
This paper argues that it is problematic for the future of Deleuze studies that it is difficult if not impossible to answer the question ‘what is the right thing to do?’ from a Deleuzian perspective. It then argues that one of the key reasons Deleuze studies has made limited progress in this area is its over-emphasis on desire and the corresponding tendency to extrapolate ‘ought’ from ‘is’, which as Hume showed is a category mistake. It proposes …
The Interpretation of Human Rights in English Social Work: An Exploration in the Context of Services for Children and for Parents with Learning Difficulties
Human rights are a central part of a social worker's value base in contemporary practice, but the structures by which social work services are delivered can adversely affect practitioners’ abilities to uphold service user rights. This article describes the organizational development of social work services in England and the evolution of a rights focus for the practice of social work. It uses two cases, participation by children and young people …
Heterophenomenology, or de Certeau's theory of space
For de Certeau, space is not simply the location of everyday life, it is its product. Thus, bodies do not exist in space; space is, rather, the means by which bodies are and can be connected. From this it follows that space itself is bodily. This is another way of saying that not only is there always something at stake in an interrogation of space, but that an interrogation of space must always begin with the body
Non‐places: Space in the age of supermodernity
I seemed to need a new place' she said. 'Not necessarily an interesting place.Just a strange place. Without associations. A place where I would be very much alone. Like an hotel.' (Raymond Chandlery The Lady in the Lake.)\nHere, at once, we are faced with a familiar paradox: a known place that is still a strange place. The paradox is familiar, even if it is only infrequently phrased as such, because it describes one of the most striking features …
Deleuze and Cultural Studies
Research Article| July 01 1997 Deleuze and Cultural Studies Ian Buchanan Ian Buchanan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (3): 483–497. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-3-483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Buchanan; Deleuze and Cultural Studies. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1997; 96 (3): 483–497. doi: https://doi.…
Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well-being
Cycling has cut across public health and policy forums in the last decade given trends in urban governance for liveability and uptake of cycling during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review discusses work that helps understand where, how, and why time spent cycling can contribute to health and well-being. The review discusses how cycling geographies offers an alternative to biomedical approaches that measure the risks versus the medical benefits of …
Ungrievable lives and the ensemble of opinions
Cyclists are understood as vulnerable road users, but when cyclists are killed by drivers, media reports shared to social media are often accompanied by comments that aggressively rearticulate hierarchies of automobility. This article explores the news reporting, public social media sharing, and public social media comments about the deaths of two cyclists – Mike Hall and Cameron Frewer. To assemble an archive of relevant media material, we have …
The utility of Empire
No one ever said that you could work hard—harder even than you ever thought possible—and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt (Ehrenreich, 2001). Today's reader of Anti-Oedipus cannot help but marvel at the fact that when it was first published in 1972 Deleuze and Guattari thought a revolutionary investment of desire was capable of sowing enough discord to actually bring about radical change at the world-historical level.…
On Perry Anderson's The Origins Of Postmodernity, Clint Burnham's The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics Of Marxist Theory, Steven Helmling's The Success And Failure Of Fredric Jameson: Writing, T…
On Perry Anderson's The Origins Of Postmodernity, Clint Burnham's The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics Of Marxist Theory, Steven Helmling's The Success And Failure Of Fredric Jameson: Writing, The Sublime, And The Dialectic Of Critique, Sean Homer's Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, Adam Roberts's Fredric Jameson and Christopher Wise's The Marxian Hermeneutics Of Fredric Jameson" published on 01 Jan 2002 by Brill
Introduction: Michel de Certeau-in the Plural
Spatial practice
Henri Lefebvre. The Production of Space (trans. Donald Nicholoson‐Smith). Oxford: Blackwell, 1991, Pb. & Cloth
Language and Symbolic Power
Reading the writing on the wall
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
Guest editor's introduction
Speaking of his deeply felt need to write a book about his great friend Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze said when 'someone that you like and admire dies, you sometimes need to draw their picture. Not to glorify them, still less to defend them, not to remember, but rather to produce a final likeness you can find only in death, that makes you realise "that's who they were"' (1995:102). I am not sure we have yet reached the stage of being able to pr…
Heterophenomenology, or de Certeau's theory of space
For de Certeau, space is not simply the location of everyday life, it is its product. Thus, bodies do not exist in space; space is, rather, the means by which bodies are and can be connected. From this it follows that space itself is bodily. This is another way of saying that not only is there always something at stake in an interrogation of space, but that an interrogation of space must always begin with the body
Deleuze and popular music, or, why is there so much 80s music on the Radio today
This paper examines the possibility of using Deleuze's work to analyse popular culture, noting that he himself had little or no time for the subject. The particular area of interest is nostalgia and popular music. What the paper sets outs to explain using a Deleuzian apparatus is why it is people want to listen to the same song over and over again. It suggests that one answer to this can be found in Deleuze's notion of the refrain
The Problem of the Body in Deleuze and Guattari, Or, What Can a Body Do
You never reach the Body without Organs, you can't reach it, you are forever attaining it, it is a limit. People ask, So what is this BwO? - But you're already on it, scurrying like vermin, grouping like a blind person, or running like a lunatic: desert traveller and nomad of the steppes. On it we sleep, live our waking lives, fight - fight and are fought - seek our place, experience untold happiness and fabulous defeats; on it we penetrate and a…
Deleuze and Cultural Studies
Research Article| July 01 1997 Deleuze and Cultural Studies Ian Buchanan Ian Buchanan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (3): 483–497. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-3-483 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Buchanan; Deleuze and Cultural Studies. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1997; 96 (3): 483–497. doi: https://doi.…
A Deleuzian Century?
Non‐places: Space in the age of supermodernity
I seemed to need a new place' she said. 'Not necessarily an interesting place.Just a strange place. Without associations. A place where I would be very much alone. Like an hotel.' (Raymond Chandlery The Lady in the Lake.)\nHere, at once, we are faced with a familiar paradox: a known place that is still a strange place. The paradox is familiar, even if it is only infrequently phrased as such, because it describes one of the most striking features …
The stylistic inflection
Under the broad rubric of'style', I want to try to 'understand' the tenor ofCerteau's project by analysing its stylistic inflections. My rationale is that an analysis of style is at the same time an elucidation of a method because, in our time, according to Jameson at least, 'the search for the proper expression is the same as the search for the wholly adequate notion' (S, 67). On the evidence of a number of imaginative language experiments Certe…
Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist
This volume provides a critical introduction to the work and influence of Michel de Certeau. It discusses his relationship to theories of modern culture and society and ponders how his work would have developed had he not died prematurely
Deleuze's 'Immanent Historicism
It is not often noted, but The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson is explicitly presented as Deleuzian in spirit. It is, in effect, an experiment in immanent criticism, or what I would prefer to call ‘immanent historicism’, which like Deleuze and Guattari’s first great collaboration, The Anti-Oedipus, is concerned, in Jameson’s own words, ‘to reassert the specificity of the political content of everyday life and of individual fantasy-experi…
Introduction: Michel de Certeau-in the Plural
Schizoanalysis and Hitchcock: Deleuze and The Birds
Sometimes chaos is an immense black hole in which one endeavours to fix a fragile point as a centre. (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)\nI doubt one could find an area of research more thoroughly blighted by what Deleuze and Guattari only half-jokingly call “interpretosis” than Hitchcock studies. Long a kind sacred touchstone for psychoanalytic film critics, Hitchcock is a veritable red flag to the hypersensitive Deleuzist, or at least h…
On Perry Anderson's The Origins Of Postmodernity, Clint Burnham's The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics Of Marxist Theory, Steven Helmling's The Success And Failure Of Fredric Jameson: Writing, T…
On Perry Anderson's The Origins Of Postmodernity, Clint Burnham's The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics Of Marxist Theory, Steven Helmling's The Success And Failure Of Fredric Jameson: Writing, The Sublime, And The Dialectic Of Critique, Sean Homer's Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, Adam Roberts's Fredric Jameson and Christopher Wise's The Marxian Hermeneutics Of Fredric Jameson" published on 01 Jan 2002 by Brill
What is "Antiglobalization?" I Prefer Not To Say
What did Carlo Giuliani die for?1 If the "antiglobalization" movement is not to annihilate itself, it must never answer this question, except in some evasive, Bartleby-like way-"I prefer not to
Symptom or Diagnosis
What's Left of Theory
The question about poetry after Auschwitz has been replaced with that of whether you could bear to read Adorno and Horkheimer next to the pool (Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism, p. 248).\nIn Cultural Studies today, the answer to this question would undoubtedly be no: theory and leisure cannot be enjoyed at the same time.\nA brief anecdote is a useful way of illustrating this. During a tutorial on Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (part of a course on popul…
At globalisere Deleuze og Guattari
Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i en grundig læsning af Robert Brenners “The Economies of Global Turbulence”, udgivet i New Left Review-serien, 1998. I forlængelse af denne rejses spørgsmålet, hvorfor revolutionen ikke allerede har fundet sted, givet at det er almindeligt anerkendt, at tingene ikke kan forblive, som de er. Robert Brenner beskriver den hjælpeløshed, som neoliberale økonomer er fanget i, når de prøver at gøre rede for de økonomiske ver…
The utility of Empire
No one ever said that you could work hard—harder even than you ever thought possible—and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt (Ehrenreich, 2001). Today's reader of Anti-Oedipus cannot help but marvel at the fact that when it was first published in 1972 Deleuze and Guattari thought a revolutionary investment of desire was capable of sowing enough discord to actually bring about radical change at the world-historical level.…
Deleuze and Music
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618699); What would a Deleuzian music philosophy be like? For Deleuze, music informed his work on several levels. He did not merely write about music, it formed part of his thinking. Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the perspective of music and sound. Music is central to Deleuze's work from Difference and Repetition and the Logic of Sense to Kafka: Towards a Minor Lite…
Childhood, Politics and Ambiguity: Towards an Agenda for Children’s Political Inclusion
This article examines the relationship between children, young people and the world of politics. Whilst the past decade or so has seen the development of initiatives that draw children within the political sphere, there are powerful political and social forces that position children as dependent subalterns and thus exclude them from political participation.We address this ambiguous situation by referring to competing discourses on childhood: the …
Introduction Deleuze and Space
This introductory chapter begins with discussion of the development of conceptions of space and place in post-war Europe and America. It then considers the proliferation of new concepts of space in Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative works, and views this attention to the problem of space as something distinctive that belongs to their philosophy. The chapter then sets out the purpose of this book, which is to propose a series of partial descript…
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