Political Theory After Deleuze
- London Bloomsbury 2012
- 197p
includes index and biblioraphy
1 The ontological turn in political theory 1 `Strong` versus `Weak` ontology 8 Abundance and lack 11 Immanence and transcendence 17 2 Deleuze`s ontology 21 An ontology of`sense` 21 Difference in itself 27 Virtual and actual; differentiation and differenciation 35 Repetition and the event 41 The simulacrum and the simulation of identity 53 3 Deleuze`s Nietzsche 61 A new ontology of sense and force and a new method of critique 63 Nietzschean and Hegelian masters and slaves 71 The will to truth and nihilism; the Overman and eternal return 79 4 Desire and desiring-machines 89 Desire as lack and the subject of lack 94 Desiring-machines; social machines 105 Territorial, despotic and capitalist social machines 114 5 Micropolitics 123 Thought`s dogmatic image 125 The many levels of politics 129 The place of the subject? 135 The ethics of making yourself a body without organs 141