Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought

192 Pages·2021·0.74 MB·English

by  Gregg Lambert

Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought

Towards a Geopolitical Image
of Thought
Gregg Lambert
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations ix
Preamble 1
Who are Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘Conceptual Personae’? 15
Part I: ‘What is “continental” philosophy?’
1. Towards a Political Geology 49
2. The Question: ‘What is “continental” philosophy?’ 67
3. The Archipelago of Contemporary Reason 89
Part II: On the Pedagogy of Concepts
4. ‘Another Person’ (Autrui) 109
5. ‘In-Human Sex’ (‘Desiring-Machines’) 137
6. ‘Becoming-Animal’ and ‘Territory’ 159
Bibliography 177
Index 181

Acknowledgements
Earlier versions of some chapters have previously appeared in the fol-
lowing editions:
‘Who are Deleuze and Guattari’s Conceptual Personae?’, in Refrains of
Freedom, ed. Dorothea Olkowski and Constanine Boundas, Bloomington:
Indiana University Press (2019).
‘Two Meditations on “Becoming-Animal”, Territory and the
Origin of the Artwork’, in Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, ed.
Rosi Braidotti, Kin Yuen Wong and Amy K. S. Chan, Continental
Philosophy in Austral-Asia, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
‘Two Meditations on Becoming-Animal and the Work of Art’, in
Deleuze and the Animal, ed. Patricia MacCormack, Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2017.
‘The “Non-Human Sex” in Sexuality: “What are Your Special
Desiring Machines?”’, in Deleuze and Sex, ed. Frida Beckman, Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2011, pp. 135–52.
‘What the Earth Thinks’, in Deleuze and Space, ed. Ian Buchanan and
Gregg Lambert, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005, pp.
220–39.

Abbreviations
A Gilles Deleuze, Deleuze A to Z (DVD), trans. Charles Stivalle, New
York: Semiotext(e), 2011.
AO Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia, vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen
R. Lane, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
AOP Guattari, The Anti-Oedipus Papers, New York: Semiotext(e), 2006.
ATP Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
and Schizophrenia, vol. 2, trans. Brian Massumi, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
BN Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel E. Barnes,
New York: Washington Square Press, 1984.
CC Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith
and Michael A. Greco, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1997.
D Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans.
Georges Van Den Abbeele, Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1988.
DI Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts: 1953–1974, trans.
Michael Taormina, New York: Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2004.
DR Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton,
London: The Athlone Press, 1994.
E Jean-François Lyotard, Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History,
trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele, Palo Alto: Stanford University
Press, 2009.
I Jean-François Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, trans.
Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby, Palo Alto: Stanford
University Press, 1992.
LS Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester and Charles
Stivale, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
x Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought
N Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, trans. Martin Joughin, New York:
Columbia University Press, 1995.
NP Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
P Gilles Deleuze, Proust and Signs, trans. Richard Howard, London:
The Athlone Press, 2000.
PP Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, trans. Ted
Humphry, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishers, 1983.
WP Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? trans.
Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1994.
Z Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None,
trans. Adrian del Caro, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006.