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  • Gilles Deleuze

    by Frida Beckman ...
    Series Book 75 - Critical Lives
    Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze’s remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical developments resonate with historical, political and philosophical events, from the Second World War to the student uprisings in the 1960s, the ... Read more

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  • Culture Control Critique

    Allegories of Reading the Present

    by Frida Beckman ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form.Culture ... Read more

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  • Theory Conspiracy

    Series series Conspiracy Theories
    Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-asconspiracy. By deliberately scrambling the syntax—conspiracy theory cum theory conspiracy—it seeks to open a set of reflections on the articulation between theory and conspiracy that addresses how conspiracy might rattle the sense of theory as such. ... Read more

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  • The Paranoid Chronotope

    Power, Truth, Identity

    by Frida Beckman ...
    Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions – power, truth, and identity – in three different contexts – society, literature, and critique – the book explores and explains the increasing influence ... Read more

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  • Deleuze and Sex

    Edited by Frida Beckman ...
    Series series Deleuze Connections

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  • Organs without Bodies

    On Deleuze and Consequences

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
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    With a new introduction by the authorIn this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such ... Read more

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