The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari

by Ian Buchanan

Overview

If all we do is bring to light what we already know, then what is the point of what we are doing?' This has been Ian Buchanan's guiding motto throughout his academic career and continues to inform his reading of Deleuze and Guattari. In these 20 essays written over a 20-year period, Buchanan shines a light on the experimental nature of the work of Deleuze and Guattari. He shows it to be constitutively incomplete as their project was an attempt to understand our contemporary situation which is constantly changing and can therefore never be understood in a complete way. Clustered around five main themes - Method, Film, Space, Analysis and Assemblages - Buchanan's book will appeal to experts as well as those new to Deleuze and Guattari working across literary criticism, film studies, cultural studies, political theory and philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474487887
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the founding editor of the journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies and the author of Assemblage Theory and Method (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Method

1. A Brief History of Schizoanalysis

2. Desire and Ethics

3. The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs

Part II: Film

4. Five Theses for an Actually Existing Schizoanalysis of Cinema

5. Schizoanalysis and The Birds

6. Symptomatology and Racial Politics in Australia

Part III: Space

7. Treatise on Militarism

8. Occupy Without Counting

9. Schizoanalysis and Space

10. Space in the Age of Non-Place

11. The Disappearance of Boredom

12. Architecture and Control Society

Part IV: Analysis

13. Schizoanalysis and the Internet

14. Deleuze and ‘Life’

15. Deleuze and American (Mythopoeic) Literature

16. Schizoanalysis and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed

17. Schizoanalysis and Literary Criticism

Part V: Assemblages

18 The ‘Clutter Assemblage’

19. The Little Hans Assemblage

20. The Self-Help Assemblage.

Editorial Reviews

Ian Buchanan has long been a leading figure in Deleuze and Guattari studies whose clear, original voice has been an inspiration to many. This collection of essays now makes the diversity of Buchanan’s work available in a single place in what will no doubt become an essential secondary source.

Southeastern Louisiana University Jeffrey Bell

In this engaging study, Buchanan combines clear exegesis, pithy summary, humorous asides and provocative examples to promote schizoanalysis as a new, open-ended mode of engaging issues across a wide range of disciplines. Bracing and insightful, this is an essential contribution to Deleuze and Guattari studies.

University of Georgia Ronald Lynn Bogue