Deleuze & Fascism

Brad Evans is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, the University of Bristol. Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland.

• Introduction: Fascism in All its Forms Brad Evans & Julian Reid 1. Desire and Ideology in Fascism Todd May 2. Anti-Fascist Aesthetics Michael J. Shapiro 3. Oppression Desired: Fascism & the Security Imperative Brad Evans 4. Movement and Human Logistics: Pre-emption, Technology and Fascism Geoffrey Whitehall 5. A People of Seers: The Political Aesthetics of Postwar Cinema Revisited Julian Reid 6. Waltzing the Limit Erin Manning 7. Politics on the Line Leonie Ansems de Vries 8. Fascist lines of the tokkōtai Nicholas Michelsen 9. Fascism, France and Film: Inside-Out -Territorializing Aesthetics in The Raven (Le Corbeau) and Hidden (Caché) Ruth Kitchen

"The editors of this superb volume tell us that 'We are all, always,fascists, of multiple kinds'; the fascism that they speak of, via Deleuze,is not limited to the exploits of Hitler and Nazism. This is the fascismof our own time, a fascism that has deepened and extended even since thetime that Deleuze and Guattari penned Anti-Oedipus. This is the fascism ofliberalism itself, the fascism of Kant, of humanism; it is a fascism ofdesire turned against itself, of the most basic aspects of power andauthority. The authors of this volume, extend upon, argue with, probe, andcomplicate Deleuze's insights about pervasive fascism; through engagementswith western philosophy, science fiction, cinema, Marxism, Foucault, andmany other sources, these authors seek to reproblematize and reschematizea fascism that we all partake in, a tendency that, in some sense, we cannever fully escape or leave behind. The beauty of this volume is that itexplicitly politicizes an endemic crisis, allowing very diverse frames ofreference (historical, aesthetic, theoretical) to mutually engage andcontest what must be the greatest challenge of the 21st century."James Martel, San Francisco State University, USA"When Foucault described Anti-Oedipus as a book for combating the inner fascist in us all his statement was taken at face value and never questioned or investigated. Deleuze and Fascism changes that: it turns Foucault’s claim into a question and problematic and pursues the various lines of flight it opens for us. This is a richly interesting collection of essays with a very serious purpose."-- Ian Buchanan, Editor Deleuze Studies