Réda Bensmaïa is Professor Emeritus, Formerly University Professor of French and Francophone Literature, in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, USA. He has published extensively on French and Francophone literature of the 20th century as well as on film theory and contemporary philosophy.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgementsPreface: Gilles Deleuze and How to Become a Stalker in Philosophy1. Postcolonial Haecceities: On Deleuze’s Names2. The Subject of Art: Prolegomena to a Future Deleuzian Aesthetics3. Cinéplastique(s): Deleuze on Élie Faure and Film Theory4. On the “Spiritual Automaton,” or Space and Time in Modern Cinema According to Gilles Deleuze5. The Singularity of the Event: Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, François Jullien6. The Kafka-Effect: Considerations on the Limits of Interpretation in Deleuze and Guattari’s Book on Kafka7. On the Concept of ‘Minor Literature’: From Kafka to Kateb Yacine8. Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Political in Rachid Boudjedra’s L’Escargot EntêtéNotesBibliographyIndex

How to think the “postcolonial" with Deleuze? With reference to key concepts such as haecceities, audiovisuality, the event, minor literature, and becoming-animal, Réda Bensmaïa offers a series of thought-provoking answers to this dynamic question. At once rigorous and open-minded, and attuned to debates in philosophy, film theory, literature, art, and geopolitics, this book is a tribute to Deleuzean discourse at its best.