Dark Deleuze
Andrew Culp
Manifold Edition
Rekindling Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world
Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of joyous affirmation and rhizomatic assemblages. Andrew Culp argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Culp unearths an underground network of references to conspiracy, cruelty, the terror of the outside, and the shame of being human to rekindle Deleuze’s opposition to what is intolerable about this world.
"Dark Deleuze is an important contribution to Deleuze scholarship—and to radical political thought." —Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”
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Andrew Culp is visiting assistant professor of emerging media and communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Dark Deleuze is an important contribution to Deleuze scholarship—and to radical political thought.
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