Re:Back to Deleuze/Guattari on fascism

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

David's point is well taken: ANTI-OEDIPUS is still crawling through the
Lacanian nightmare (where we can find Mr. Zizek today, on all fours);
only in THOUSAND PLATEAUX does the collective resistance in all its
multiplicity arrive.  I read these in (typically) reverse order, so I
read and still read much of the second volume back into the first - it's
comments like yours that help me keep the context vivid.  Please tell us
about Thelewhatever!



Bryan Alexander                                 Department of English
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, David McInerney wrote:

> 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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