Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Chaosophy Notes: Terror, the Seventh War Machine
- 1 The War on Terror versus the War Machine
- 2 Guattari and Terror: Radicalisation as Singularisation
- 3 Creative Resistance: An Aesthetics of Creative Affect in a Time of Global Terror
- 4 The Inhospitality of the Global North: Deleuze, Neo-colonialism and Conflict-caused Migration
- 5 Suicided by A Life: Deleuze, Terror and the Search for the ‘Middle Way’
- 6 What if, What One Needs to Cure Oneself of is the Cure? The Clandestine Complicity of Opponents
- 7 Terror and the Time-Image: How Not to Believe in the World
- 8 The Image of Terror: Art, ISIS, Iconoclasm and the Question of the People to Come
- 9 Deleuze, the Simulacrum and the Screening of Terror Online
- 10 Islands of Sorrow, Ships of Despair: Nativism Resurgent and Spectacles of Terror
- 11 The Spectacle of Terror
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Introduction: Chaosophy Notes: Terror, the Seventh War Machine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Chaosophy Notes: Terror, the Seventh War Machine
- 1 The War on Terror versus the War Machine
- 2 Guattari and Terror: Radicalisation as Singularisation
- 3 Creative Resistance: An Aesthetics of Creative Affect in a Time of Global Terror
- 4 The Inhospitality of the Global North: Deleuze, Neo-colonialism and Conflict-caused Migration
- 5 Suicided by A Life: Deleuze, Terror and the Search for the ‘Middle Way’
- 6 What if, What One Needs to Cure Oneself of is the Cure? The Clandestine Complicity of Opponents
- 7 Terror and the Time-Image: How Not to Believe in the World
- 8 The Image of Terror: Art, ISIS, Iconoclasm and the Question of the People to Come
- 9 Deleuze, the Simulacrum and the Screening of Terror Online
- 10 Islands of Sorrow, Ships of Despair: Nativism Resurgent and Spectacles of Terror
- 11 The Spectacle of Terror
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
a war-machine whose aim is neither a war of extermination nor a peace of generalized terror, but revolutionary movement. (Deleuze and Guattari 1980: 590, as quoted in Patton 1984: 66)
Am I the enemy of the state … or am I a friend of the state (helping the state in its surveillance practices of keeping constantly vigilant on the lookout for potential terrorists as with the TIPS program)? … No longer is the constitutive nature that of self and society, but rather self and nation. I am part of the nation in-so-far-as I see (particular?) others as threats to the nation. Through an internalization of the state logic of other as becoming bomb, I accept my schizophrenia. I, in fact, am asked by the state to help enact the logic of threat in my everyday life through a self-actualization of surveillance and ever-readiness. (Packer 2006: 382–3)
As the ‘war-machine’ is not about war but about destratified plateaus, it stands as a figuration of alternative nomad thoughts, and yet it runs the risk of being both rhizomatic and at the same time arboreal. Otherwise, how do we account for the desiring-production of terrorism as a war machine combating the state apparatus of capture? Is terror a nomadic or fascicular rejoinder to the ‘military-Keynesianism’ (Buchanan 2000: 113) of the contemporary neoliberal social machine? Terror, being born of and simultaneously militating against the capitalist mega-machine, might invoke Deleuzo-Guattarian ‘toolkits’ or their hermeneutic apparatus to reclaim its validity as a heuristic model of radical nomadism. That said, and notwithstanding its global spread, does terror adumbrate planes of over-codified desire that defeat the real schizophrenisation of desiring-production? What are the ‘dark precursors’ or the ‘flows and schizzes’ of terror? Does it destratify only for the dissolution of desire, arresting its nomadism in its dogmatic figuration of desire? Destratification, the process of liberating oneself from the yoke of strata, is, according to Deleuze and Guattari, both easy and dangerous; it is a transformative mechanism that abhors the death drive.
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- Deleuze and Guattari and Terror , pp. 1 - 29Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022