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Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion Schizoanalytic Applications Schizoanalysis has the potential to be to Deleuze and Guattari’s work what deconstruction is to Derrida’s – the standard rubric by which their work is known and, more importantly, applied. Many within the field of Deleuze and Guattari studies would resist this idea, but the goal of this series is to broaden the base of scholars interested in their work. Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas are widely known and used, but not in a systematic way, and this is both a strength and weakness. It is a strength because it enables people to pick up their work from a wide variety of perspectives, but it is also a weakness because it makes it difficult to say with any clarity what exactly a ‘Deleuzo–Guattarian’ approach is. This has inhibited the uptake of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking in the more wilful disciplines such as history, politics, and even philosophy. Without this methodological core, Deleuze and Guattari studies risk becoming simply another intellectual fashion that will soon be superseded by newer figures. The goal of the Schizoanalytic Applications series is to create a methodological core and build a sustainable model of schizoanalysis that will attract new scholars to the field. With this purpose, the series also aims to be at the forefront of the field by starting a discussion about the nature of Deleuze and Guattari’s methodology. Series editors: Ian Buchanan, David Savat, and Marcelo Svirsky Other titles in the series: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema, edited by Ian Buchanan and Patricia MacCormack Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature, edited by Ian Buchanan, Tim Matts, and Aidan Tynan Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, edited by Ian Buchanan and Lorna Collins Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion Lindsay Powell-Jones and F. LeRon Shults Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Lindsay Powell-Jones, F. LeRon Shults, and contributors 2016 Lindsay Powell-Jones and F. LeRon Shults have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 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Contents Notes on Contributors vi Introduction Lindsay Powell-Jones 1 1 Deleuze’s Theory of Religion Brent Adkins 15 2 S chizoanalysis of the Eucharist: From Oedipal Repetition to Liberating Event Kristien Justaert 41 3 D ivine Life: Difference, Becoming, and the Trinity Christopher Ben Simpson 59 4 Deleuze and Guattari’s Machinic Animism Joshua Ramey 75 5 Th e Apocalyptic Unconscious: Schizoanalysis as Political Theology Aidan Tynan 95 6 Th e Bricolage of Images: Constructing the Cartographies of the Unconscious Inna Semetsky 117 7 D ivine Differentials: The Metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze and Its Significance for Contemporary Theologies Austin Roberts 145 8 The Atheist Machine F. LeRon Shults 163 Index 193 Notes on Contributors Brent Adkins is Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College, the United States. He is co-author of Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography (Bloomsbury Press, 2014) and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘A Thousand Plateaus’: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Kristien Justaert is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, where she is a coordinator of the Centre for Liberation Theologies. She is the author of Theology after Deleuze (Continuum, 2012). Lindsay Powell-Jones recently finished her PhD on Deleuze and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. She is currently preparing her thesis for publication. Joshua Ramey is an assistant professor at Grinnell College, the United States. His first book was The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal (Duke University Press, 2012), and his recent book is Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). Austin Roberts is a PhD student in theology and philosophy at Drew University, the United States. Inna Semetsky (PhD, Columbia University, New York) serves as a chief consultant to the new Institute for Edusemiotic Studies (IES) registered in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author/editor of nine books including Deleuze, Education and Becoming (Sense Publishers, 2006) and Deleuze and Education (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Her latest volume Edusemiotics – A Handbook is currently in production with Springer Science. F. LeRon Shults is Professor of Theology and Philosophy in the Institute for Religion, Philosophy and History at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His latest two books are Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Notes on Contributors vii Secretion of Atheism (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Theology after the Birth of God: Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture (Palgrave- Macmillan, 2014). Christopher Ben Simpson is Professor of Philosophical Theology at Lincoln Christian University, the United States. He is the author of Deleuze and Theology (Bloomsbury Press, 2012) and Modern Christian Theology (Bloomsbury Press, 2016). Aidan Tynan is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, the United Kingdom. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is currently editing a volume of essays on capitalism and religion titled Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money, which will appear from Rowman and Littlefield in 2017. Introduction Lindsay Powell-Jones 1. The schizoanalysis of religion In 1972 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari collaborated to produce Anti-Oedipus (L’anti-Oedipe), which they followed up in 1980 with A Thousand Plateaus (Mille Plateaux). Together, these texts form the Capitalism and Schizophrenia project, which they developed in response to what they saw as the pervasive force of the Oedipus construct in French psychiatry during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Challenging the reduction of the psyche to family relations and the elevation of the unified self, which dominated the theory and practice of psychiatry, Deleuze and Guattari instead posited a theory in which desire is understood in terms of a schizophrenic id rather than a neurotic ego. In this system there is no sense of what is ‘normal’, or what is individual in the human psyche. Deleuze and Guattari described this as a revolutionary ‘materialist psychiatry’ called ‘schizoanalysis’. In a system of schizoanalysis, ‘schizo flux’ and multiplicity are paramount. Since the publication of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, and their subsequent translation into English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Korean, the principles of schizoanalysis have been applied in contexts far removed from Deleuze and Guattari’s initial study of French psychiatry. There is a wealth of literature that connects Deleuze to subjects as varied as literature (Marks and Buchanan 2000; Buchanan et al. 2015), visual culture (Roberts and Rushton 2011; Buchanan and Collins 2014), as well as technology (Poster and Savat 1999), geo-philosophy (Bonta and Protevi 2004), queer theory (Nigianni and Storr 2009), performance (Cull 2009), space (Buchanan and Lambert 2005), architecture (Frichot 2013), race (Saldanha and Adams 2013), music (Buchanan and Swiboda 2004), the body (Guillaume and Hughes 2011), the postcolonial (Bignall and Patton 2010), sex (Beckman 2011), the schizoanalysis of cinema (Buchanan and MacCormack 2008), film music (Redner 2011), contemporary art (Zepke and O’Sullivan 2010), and more. While significant research has been
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