Cultural Studies and Deleuze–Guattari, Part 1

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AbstractThis paper offers a pedagogically useful way of understanding some of the complexities of the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari. It critically considers some of the ways this work is used in contemporary cultural theory and politics, and offers some suggestions for how the work of Deleuze and Guattari might enter into conversation with and be taken up within the project of cultural studies.Keywords: DeleuzeGuattariconjunctureontological politicspolitics of theoryaffect AcknowledgementsI want to thank Ted Striphas and Bryan Behrenshausen for their invaluable help with this paper, and Jennifer Slack, Patti Sotirin and Meaghan Morris for their help and support. Jody Berland, Lily Chow and some of the anonymous reviewers provided useful editing suggestions. I also want to thank Jennifer Slack, Marty Allor, and especially Charley Stivale, with whom I first read Deleuze and Guattari and to whom I continue to turn for guidance. Meaghan Morris helped me understand Deleuze and Guattari well enough to begin to offer my own appropriations. And finally, I want to thank my friends and colleagues, John Pickles and Arturo Escobar, for lively and continued conversation. This paper was first given in a graduate seminar that we jointly taught.Notes on contributorLawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The editor of the journal Cultural Studies, his latest book is Cultural Studies in the Future Tense.