Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

Henry Somers‑Hall is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written extensively on Gilles Deleuze and the broader twentieth‑century French philosophical tradition. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (SUNY Press, 2012), Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co‑editor (with Daniel W. Smith) of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012), (with Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams) A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and (with Jeffrey A. Bell) The Deleuzian Mind (Routledge, 2025). Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). James Williams is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University.

• Notes on Contributors A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy: Introduction 1. "A book? What book?" or Deleuze and Guattari on The Rhizome Miguel de Beistegui 2. One or Several Wolves: The Wolf-Man’s Pass-Words Brent Adkins 3. Who the Earth Thinks It Is Ronald Bogue 4. Postulates of Linguistics Jeffrey A. Bell 5. 587 BC – AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs Audrey Wasser 6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself A Body Without Organs? John Protevi 7. Year Zero: Faciality Nathan Widder 8. ‘What Happened Next?’: Hjelmslev’s Net, Arachne’s Web and the Figure of the Line Helen Palmer 9. Micropolitics and Segmentarity Eugene W. Holland 10. Memories of a Deleuzian: To Think is Always to Follow the Witches Flight Simon O’Sullivan 11. Of the Refrain (The Ritornello) Emma Ingala 12. 1227 A.D.: Treatise on Nomadology – The War Machine Paul Patton13. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of CaptureDaniel W. Smith14. The Smooth and the Striated Henry Somers-Hall15. Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines: Form and Function in A Thousand PlateausRay BrassierBibliography

Three of Deleuze and Guattari’s foremost interpreters have assembled a fine and diverse collection of essays from prominent contemporary voices.　 This volume is at once comprehensive and provocative, exploring the many dimensions of one of the twentieth-century’s most vital philosophical texts.　 For those not familiar with A Thousand Plateaus this collection is a great place to start; for those who’ve been reading Deleuze and Guattari for years, this will provide new directions for future reading