Entering Deleuze's Political Vision

Tampio, Nicholas

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“…This is because the molecular and multivalent operations of their critique are fundamentally opposed to the kind of ‘molar’ organisation required in order for a programmatic or ‘party’ politics to adhere − a claim we might apply to Deleuze’s philosophy more broadly. Yet as numerous commentators have noted (Widder 2012; Tampio 2015; Sibertin-Blanc 2016) political concerns are nevertheless so marbled throughout the Deleuzian corpus, and so consistently dedicated to a clutch of recurrent themes − capitalism, organisation, minority, resistance, control − that we must read such remarks with the sceptical attention they deserve. Indeed, in the same breath (or at least in the following volume) Deleuze and Guattari will also write, in an apparently paradoxical and somewhat grandiose moment, that ‘schizoanalysis, as the analysis of desire, is immediately practical and political… for politics precedes being’ (2005, 203).…”

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An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film

Deane-Freeman

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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In this paper, I defend a conception of Deleuze’s two volumes dedicated to film – Cinema I: The Movement-Image, and Cinema II: The Time-Image – as protracted expressions of his political philosophy. In this context, I will elaborate the difficult and entwined political claims Deleuze makes on behalf of cinema: that it is capable of engendering a tentative ‘belief in the world’, such as is the necessary correlate of political action; that it captures the contemporary political fact that ‘the people are missing’, as a unified or coherent political agent; and finally that it might reveal those ‘impossible’ or ‘intolerable’ situations which would provoke such a people into being. In advancing this conceptual triumvirate, I will argue that the claims made here on behalf of cinema overspill the art form itself, linking up with Deleuze’s broader political ontology of thought and constituting a generalised political philosophy proper to so-called ‘late-capitalism’.

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An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film

Deane-Freeman

2022

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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“…Nicholas Tampio (2015) argues that becoming-political "means generating new ways of thinking, acting, feeling, and seeing" (p.69). For us becoming-political is about embracing our failure and wounds for it is only through failure and wounds can we begin to "think about how to construct a joyful order, one that has enough stability to make possible enchanting lines of flight for those who wish to take that risk" (Tampio, 2015, p.85).…”

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The production of the academicwritingmachine

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Loch³

2016

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Abstract:The organisational territory of academia has become heavily gridded by consuming requirements to produce publications that 'count'. To survive, the scholar must plug herself into this machine -a heaving, monstrous academicwritingmachine. She must invest libidinal energy into the process of counting if she desires to be counted. This troubles us, who write for both 'work' and 'pleasure', who

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“…Bringing Deleuze more centre stage in contemporary democratic political theory is an important motivation for Tampio, and one he has also expressed elsewhere (see Tampio, 2014). To this end, putting Deleuze into conversation with Rawls and demonstrating his value for expanding our established liberal notion of pluralism is important.…”

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Kantian courage: Advancing the enlightenment in contemporary political theory

Widder

2014

Contemp Polit Theory

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Tampio sums up the aim of his book by asking: 'Is it possible to envision a new Left, or a new Enlightenment, that somehow combines all of the different post-Kantian traditions into, say, a poststructuralist political liberalism?' (p. 108). These traditions are represented primarily by John Rawls's political liberalism and Gilles Deleuze's poststructuralist philosophy, but Tampio adds to the conversation reflections from committed Kantians such as Alan Wood and from Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan. The objective in engaging this array of thinkers is to construct a path for political theorists committed to Enlightenment values of freedom, equality and pluralism to rework them so as to constitute alliances with greatly diverging perspectives across differences in race, gender and (particularly in a post-9/11 world) religion never considered by Kant and his contemporaries. For Tampio, this demands a kind of courage that Kant himself articulates, albeit inconsistently: not the courage to follow resolutely the commands of the moral law, but the courage to hold to one's convictions to think critically and creatively (p. 23), to invent new moral principles.Kantian Courage can be usefully compared with another recent reassertion of Enlightenment values, Bronner's (2004) Reclaiming the Enlightenment. Bronner sees progressive Enlightenment liberalism sunk in a malaise because of relentless attacks from positions ranging from counter-Enlightenment conservatism to authoritarian Marxism and from 'half-hearted' liberalism to 'postmodern' relativism. His defence turns, first, on accusing these critics of prioritizing metaphysics over proper political history, of aestheticizing politics, and of failing to keep clear the distinctions between Enlightenment liberalism and counter-Enlightenment totalitarianism and fascism; and, second, on excusing the racism, sexism and other failings of historical Enlightenment thinkers and liberal states as mere products of their time. Bronner's message is simple: do not forget that liberalism is better than fascism, and shoot any messengers with something else to say.In contrast, Tampio holds that dogmatic attachment to the Enlightenment is a significant part of the problem. We must recognize that the Holocaust and other

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Entering Deleuze's Political Vision

Cited by 5 publications

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An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film

An unthinkable cinema: Deleuze’s mutant politics of film

The production of the academicwritingmachine

Kantian courage: Advancing the enlightenment in contemporary political theory

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