Re:Back to Deleuze/Guattari on fascism

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

To Bryan, Gary, Jon et. al.

This discussion is very stimulating.  Unfortunately I do not have the time
at the moment to say very much.  What I will say is this -- I found Jon's
paper *very* interesting, especially when he spoke about the shifts from
_Anti-Oedipus_ to _A Thousand Plateaus_ and of the work of Klaus Theweleit.
What I found interesting was precisely the shift from the Lacanisn
preoccupation with the family form and the Oedipal-complex to a serious
engagement with the libidinal effects of *different* ways of organising
desire, such as the fascist *party*.  The Lacanian approach of taking
Oedipus as a hermeneutic principle and reading into everything seems like a
very self-defeating appraoch to studying the dynamics of fascist parties
(and other organisations, such as Orangist lodges in Ulster, etc).  But the
begiinings of an alternative approach to these questions seem to be there
in the later work of Deleuze-Guattrai and Theweleit.  I found this aspect
of Jon's paper stimulating enough to prompt me to invest in Theweleit's
books (_Male Fantasies_ 2 vols and _Object-Choice_) and in the two
Deleuze-Guattari _Capitalism and Schizophrenia_ volumes.  Now to find the
time to read them.


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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