Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism - (Schizoanalytic Applications) (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capitalist scholarship. It maps the critical new assemblages emerging out of decades of neoliberalism to diagnose contemporary and future discontent. Contributors argue that current critiques of neoliberalism ignore the determining role of colonialism and the accelerated threat of climate breakdown. The volume considers new modes of capitalism, societies built on exhaustion, digital power, education, agroforestry, and literary texts that characterise the post-neoliberal era. Together, these essays remap the antagonisms, discontents and tensions of current post-neoliberal becoming"--

Book Synopsis

Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capitalist scholarship. It maps the critical new assemblages emerging out of decades of neoliberalism to diagnose contemporary and future discontent.

Working alongside other forms of inquiry into the post-neoliberal era, the volume proposes a novel combination of ethics and Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy to understand the post-neoliberal era. Contributors argue that current critiques of neoliberalism ignore the determining role of colonialism and the accelerated threat of climate breakdown. They highlight the precariousness of our planetary existence and propose new forms of inquiry into Deleuzo-Guattarian becoming. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism considers new modes of capitalism, societies built on exhaustion, digital power, education, agroforestry, as well as literary texts that characterise the post-neoliberal era. Alongside these critical positions, the volume uses an ethical framework to challenge dialectical divisions in neoliberal critique. In the process, the essays remap the antagonisms, discontents and tensions of current post-neoliberal becoming.

Review Quotes

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalismexplains why we desperately need another capitalist formula in an acute diagnosis of the post-neoliberal condition. If neoliberalism's content was it cynicism towards the mobilities and fluidities it unleashed, then post-neoliberalism's operationality is even more harrowing as it disjoins with neo-liberalism in a setting up of dead-ends, gridlocks, lines of destruction, and bewildering scenarios. The essays collected in this volume not only take-back Deleuze and Guattari from their market-happy popularizers, but offer new, hopeful reconstructive possibilities through the critical exposure of the cartographies of post-neoliberalism's vast dispositive.
Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada

It seems ever easier to imagine ecological collapse than an alternative to capitalism. Not only does capitalism evolve by either adapting or annihilating its critiques, the advent of a post-neoliberal world doubles down on the trap, and "we only get to sense the impossibility of taking a flight towards new emancipatory openings." These timely and often liberatory essays resist the right-wing ascendance of the latest permutation of the trap and powerfully deploy the work of Deleuze and Guattari to reactivate our capacity to reimagine the self-overcoming of our economic and political global landscape.
Jason M. Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USA

About the Author

Saswat Samay Das is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Ananya Roy Pratihar is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India.

Emine Gorgul is Associate Professor of Interior Architecture Design at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.