Politics in the Middle
For a Political Interpretation of the Dualisms in Deleuze and Guattari
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodrigo Nunes (0000-0002-1377-9899, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Rodrigo dos Santos Nunes (0000-0002-4523-8165, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | supplement |
| Pages | 104-126 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deleuze Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-2241 • E-ISSN: 1755-1684 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/dls.2010.0208 |
| OpenAlex | W4231625577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
The paper identifies three recent lines of interpretation of the politics that can be derived from Deleuze and Guattari, all of which share a way of reading the dualisms in their work that can be traced back to how they understand the actual/virtual partition, and to an alleged pre-eminence of the virtual over the actual. It is argued that this reading is not only inaccurate, but obscures the political dimension of Deleuze and Guattari's work. Clarifying the latter requires a reinterpretation of the dualisms involved (as dyads rather than binaries), of the relation between virtual and actual (as a formal distinction where one acts back upon the other), and the drawing of a clear distinction between what Deleuze calls a ‘transcendent exercise’ of thought and sensibility and the properly metaphysical exercise that sets up the distinction between virtual and actual. What then appears is an image of Deleuze's and Guattari's thought that is far more concerned with practical questions and with a situated political practice of intervention
Aesthetics · Deleuze and Guattari · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Negation · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Reinterpretation · Relation (database · Sensibility · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2015 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |