Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics

216 Pages·2015·15.71 MB·English

by  Brad Evans

Deleuze & Fascism
This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a
mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto
misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides
a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its relations
with liberalism and modernity in both historical and contemporary contexts.
It serves as a seminal intervention into the debate over the causes and consequences
of contemporary wars and global political conflicts as weIl as functioning as
an accessible guide to the theoretical utilities of Deleuzian thought for Inter
national Relations (IR) in a manner that is very much lacking in current
debates about IR.
Covering a wide array of topics, this volume will provide a set of original
contributions focused in particular upon the contemporary nature of war; the
increased priorities afforded to the security imperative; the changing designs
of bio-political regimes, fascist aesthetics; nihilistic tendencies and the mod
ernist logic of finitude; the politics of suicide; the specifie des ires upon which
fascism draws; and, of course, the recurring pursuit of power.
An important contribution to the field, this work will be of great interest to
students and scholars of international relations, fascism and international
relations theory.
Brad Evans is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of
Sociology, Politics and International Studies, the University of Bristol.
Julian Reid is Profe ssor of International Relations at the University of Lapland,
Finland.
Interventions
Edited by:
Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams,
University of Warwick
As Michel Foucault has famously stated, 'knowledge is not made for under
standing; it is made for cutting.' In this spirit the Edkins-Vaughan-Williams
Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge main
stream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to
contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize
and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.
Michael 1. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Mànoa, USA
The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars
working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have
chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of
important topics.
Tides in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology,
poli tics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and
textual studies in international politics.
Critical Theorists and International Governing Sustainable
Relations Development
Edited by Jenny Edkins and Partnership, protest and power at
Nick Vaughan-Williams the world summit
Carl Death
Ethics as Foreign Policy
Britain, the EU and the other
Insuring Security
Dan Bulley Biopolitics, security and risk
Luis Loba-GueTTera
Universality, Ethics and
International Relations
Foucault and International
A grammatical reading
Relations
Véronique Pin-Fat
New critical engagements
Edited by Nicholas 1. Kiersey and
The Time of the City
Doug Stokes
Politics, philosophy, and genre
Michael 1. Shapiro
International Relations and Indian Foreign Policy
Non-Western Thought The politics of postcolonial identity
Imperialism, colonialism and Pr(va Chacko
investigations of global moden1ity
Edited by Robbie Shilliam Poli tics of the Event
Time, movement, becoming
Autobiographical International Tom Lundborg
Relations
Theorising Post-Conftict
I,IR
Reconciliation
Edited by Naeem Ina)Jatullah
Agonism, restitution and repair
Edited by Alexander Kel1er Hirsch
War and Rape
Law, memory and justice
Europe's Encounter with Islam
Nicola Henry
The secular and the postsecular
Luca Mavelli
Madness in International Relations
Psychology, security and the global
Re-Thinking International Relations
governance of mental health
Theory via Deconstruction
Alison Howel1
Badredine Arfi
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl The New Violent Cartography
Schmitt Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn
Geographies of the nomos Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and
Edited by Stephen Legg Michael l. Shapiro
Politics of Urbanism Insuring War
Seeing like a city Sovereignty, security and risk
Warren Magnusson Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Beyond Biopolitics International Relations, Meaning
Theory, violence and horror in and Mimesis
world poli tics Necati Polat
François Debrix and
Alexander D. Barder The Postcolonial Subject
Claiming politics/governing others
The Politics of Speed in late modemity
Capitalism, the state and war in an Vivienne labri
accelerating world
Simon Glezos Foucault and the Politics of Hearing
Lauri Siisiiiinen
Politics and the Art of
Commemoration Volunteer Tourism in the
Memorials to strùggle in Latin Global South
America and Spain Giving back in neoliberal times
Katherine Hite Wanda Vrasti
Cosmopolitan Government Democratic Futures
in Europe Revisioning democracy promotion
Citizens and entrepreneurs in M;(ja Kurki
postnational politics
Owen Parker Postcolonial Theory
A critical introduction
Studies in the Trans-Disciplinary Edited by Sanjay Seth
Method
After the aesthetic turn More Than Just War
Michael J. Shapiro Narratives of the just war tradition
and military life
Alternative Accountabilities in Charles A. Jones
Global Politics
The scars of violence Deleuze & Fascism
Brent 1. Steele Security: war: aesthetics
Edited by Brad Evans and
CeIebrity Humanitarianism JuUan Reid
The ideology of global charity
Jlan Kapoor Feminist International Relations
'Exquisite Corpse'
Deconstructing International Mmysia Zalewski
Politics
Michael Dillon The Persistence of Nationalism
From imagined communities to
The Politics of Exile urban encounters
Elizabeth Dauphinee Angharad Closs Stephens
Deleuze & Fascism
Security: war: aesthetics
Edited by
Brad Evans and J"ulian Reid
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Includes bibliographical rel'erences and index.
1. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. 2. Fascism. 3. International relations. I.
Evans, Brad (International relations), editor of compilation. II. Reid, Julian
(Julian David McHardy), editor of compilation. III. Title: Deleuze and
fascism.
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Contents
List of contributors x
Introduction: fascism in a11 its forms
BRAD EVANS AND JULIAN REID
Desire and ideology in fascism 13
TODD MAY
2 Anti-fascist aesthetics 27
MICHAEL l SHAPIRO
3 Fascism and the bio-political 42
BRAD EVANS
4 Movement and human logistics: pre-emption, technology and
fascism 64
GEOFFREY WHITEHALL
5 A people of seers: the political aesthetics of post-war cinema
revisited 78
JULIAN REID
6 Waltzing the limit 96
ERIN MANNING
7 Politics on the line 126
LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES
8 Fascist lines of the tokk6tai 148
NICHOLAS MICHELSEN
9 Fascism, France and film 173
RUTH KITCHEN
Index 195
Contributors
Brad Evans is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Global Inse
curities Center, the School of Sociology, Poli tics and International Studies,
the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on the Liberal
bio-politics of security, contemporary war and political violence, the poli tics
of catastrophe, along with mediation's on post-liberal political thought. Brad
is the author of numerous books and edited volumes, most recently including:
Liberal Terror (Polit Y Press: 2013) and Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dan
gerously (forthcoming with Julian Reid, Polit y Press: 2014). He is the Founder
and Director of the Histories of Violence project (www.historiesofviolence.com)
and a member of the Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures.
Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University ofLapland,
Finland. He taught previously at King's College London, Sussex University,
and SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.
He is the author of numerous studies of the liberal biopolitics of war
including The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live (co-authored
with Michael Dillon) (New York and London: Routledge, 2009) and The
Biopolitics of the War on Ten'or: Life Struggles, Liberal Mo dern ity , and the
Defence of Logistical Societies (Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 2009, 2007 and 2006).
Leonie Ansems de Vries is Assistant Professor of International Relations at
the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. She holds a PhD from the
Department of War Studies at King's College London. Her doctoral thesis
draws upon insights from modem political theory, continental philosophy
(especially Deleuze and Foucault) to pro duce a novel account of political
life. At the heart of this research lies a concern with the notion of political
life understood as a question of ordering and disordering: the management
and disruption of conflicting daims regarding what life may be and become
politically. Her current research continues the exploration of the relation
ship between politics and life from a multidisciplinary perspective. A second
research strand interrogates the relationship between governance and resistance.
Before joining the Malaysia Campus in 20 Il, Leonie taught at the Department
of Politics and Intenlational Relations, Queen Mary University of London.