A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

A collaborative close reading of A Thousand Plateaus by some of the world's leading Deleuze and Guattari scholars

This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.

A Thousand Plateaus represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory.

Henry Somers-Hall is Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation (SUNY Press, 2012) and Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh Unviersity Press, 2013), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is interested in the interrelations of German idealism, phenomenology, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze's Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

James Williams is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University. He has published widely on contemporary French philosophy and is currently working on a critique of the idea of extended mind from the point of view of process philosophy.

A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy: Introduction

1. "A book? What book?" or Deleuze and Guattari on The Rhizome
Miguel de Beistegui

2. One or Several Wolves: The Wolf-Man's Pass-Words
Brent Adkins

3. Who the Earth Thinks It Is
Ronald Bogue

4. Postulates of Linguistics
Jeffrey A. Bell

5. 587BC-AD70: On Several Regimes of Signs
Audrey Wasser

6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself A Body Without Organs?
John Protevi

7. Year Zero: Faciality
Nathan Widder

8.'What Happened Next?': Hjelmslev's Net, Arachne's Web and the Figure of the Line
Helen Palmer

9. Micropolitics and Segmentarity
Eugene W. Holland

10. Memories of a Deleuzian: To Think is Always to Follow the Witches Flight
Simon O'Sullivan

11. Of the Refrain (The Ritornello)
Emma Ingala

12. 1227 AD: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine
Paul Patton

13. 7000 BC: Apparatus of Capture
Daniel W. Smith

14. The Smooth and the Striated
Henry Somers-Hall

15. Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines: Form and Function in A Thousand Plateaus
Ray Brassier

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