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Schizoanalysis has the potential to be to Deleuze and Guattari’s work what deconstruction
is to Derrida’s—the standard rubric by which their work is known and, more importantly,
applied. Many within the field of Deleuze and Guattari studies would resist this idea, but
the goal of this series is to broaden the base of scholars interested in their work. Deleuze
and Guattari’s ideas are widely known and used but not in a systematic way, and this is
both a strength and weakness. It is a strength because it enables people to pick up their
work from a wide variety of perspectives, but it is also a weakness because it makes it
difficult to say with any clarity what exactly a ‘Deleuzo-Guattarian’ approach is. This has
inhibited the uptake of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking in the more willful disciplines
such as history, politics, and even philosophy. Without this methodological core, Deleuze
and Guattari studies risk becoming simply another intellectual fashion that will soon be
superseded by newer figures. The goal of the Schizoanalytic Applications series is to create
a methodological core and build a sustainable model of schizoanalysis that will attract
new scholars to the field. With this purpose, the series also aims to be at the forefront of
the field by starting a discussion about the nature of Deleuze and Guattari’s methodology.
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Cheri Lynne Carr
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction: Alliances and Allies Janae Sholtz and Cheri Lynne Carr 1
Contributors 277
Index 281
viii
ILLUSTRATIONS
Cover Image It’s important to revisit traumas . . ., 2018, mixed media on canvas,
Jeanne Hamilton
1.1 “#59,” 2018, watercolor, ink, chalk, and salt on paper, Fredrica Introne 21
4.1 Self-portrait as memorializer (doing it right this time, with notes), 2018,
mixed media on paper, Jeanne Hamilton 75
6.1 “#4,” 2016, ink and watercolor on paper, Fredrica Introne 109
8.1 “Entropy,” 2004, cotton fabric and acrylic yarn, approx. 150 × 150 cm,
Macarena Rioseco 141
12.1 “Un-poetic femininity (1),” 2015, Eyeshadow powder, dried rose petal,
Inkjet flyer prints with a full gloss coating, Photographic Installation,
Mihee Jeon 209
12.2 “Un-poetic femininity (2),” 2015, Eyeshadow powder, dried rose petal,
Inkjet flyer prints with a full gloss coating, Photographic Installation,
Mihee Jeon 210
12.3 “Un-poetic femininity (3),” 2015, Eyeshadow powder, dried rose petal,
Inkjet flyer prints with a full gloss coating, photographic installation,
Mihee Jeon 211
15.1 “The Other side, Breakthrough,” 2013, wood and varnish installation,
Hollie Mackenzie 260
INTRODUCTION: ALLIANCES AND ALLIES
Janae Sholtz and Cheri Lynne Carr
This collection explores the myriad ways that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s
schizoanalytic methodology can align with contemporary feminist concerns and
practices to generate mutually productive insights for future directions within these
fields. The volume creates spaces for positive encounters between Deleuze and feminism
that enhance and inform contemporary feminist perspectives and concerns and
sharpens the focus of this engagement by specifically considering how Deleuze and
Guattari’s collaborative project proposed in Anti-Oedipus, developed and transformed
through their later, subsequent work together can be an ally to various forms of feminist
methodology. Thus, its thematic focus on schizoanalysis constitutes an innovative and
unique intervention into the already rich discussions which have transpired over the
last decades with regard to feminist responses to Deleuzoguattarian philosophy. Thus,
this is a project is about alliances—exploring how the methods, concepts, and practices
that evolve out of Deleuze and Guattari’s vision for philosophy can be allies to feminist
projects of critique, revaluation, and reimagining of the philosophical, ethical, aesthetic,
and political fields. The overarching questions we explore are: Between schizoanalysis
and feminism, what alliances have been formed or can be imagined? What can
schizoanalysis do for feminist theory? What would a feminist schizoanalysis look like,
or, rather, what can feminism do for schizoanalysis? We hope to create a space to unleash
new ideas, new desires, and new imaginings—a feminist delirium.
As a whole, this collection highlights the strength, richness, and diversity of feminist
perspectives and prerogatives. Issues of reconceiving desire, theorizing embodiment and
materiality, interrogating the status of sexuality and difference, the project of decentering
feminist practice to be inclusive of transnational and de-colonial concerns, critiques
of binary logic and gender from materialist or LGBTQA perspectives, intersectional
and transversal analyses, posthumanist and ecological concerns, and the need for new
political visions in light of advanced capitalism, are all points of connection. The creative
intervention that this book offers operates with two guiding assumptions: (1) To forge
an alternative alliance between feminism and Deleuze and Guattari’s work, we have
to locate the particular invocations of sexuality and the feminine within the broader
conceptual concerns of their work and recognize that any decontextualized emphasis on
certain concepts often eclipses the possibility of engaging their project. Thus, we hope
to broaden the engagement of Deleuze and Guattari’s corpus through rigorous attention
to the scope and breadth of schizoanalysis as a methodology that extends throughout
their work. Though the focus may seem to be narrowed in this manner, we actually
think that the effect will be the opposite: schizoanalysis represents the theoretical and
Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism
1. Why Now?
In the past, Deleuze and feminism have enjoyed what might be considered a rocky
relationship. It is safe to say that the centrality of the issues of sexuality and desire to
the process of desubjectification, the implication that their reconceptualization of desire
as impersonal and machinic demands the dispersal of sexuality into a generalized
becoming, as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s explicit use of language that invokes
feminine constructs, such as becoming-woman and the figure of Alice as a paradigm
of paradoxical becoming, have met with skeptical responses from feminists. So, it is not
surprising that a number of the initial responses and critiques by feminists to Deleuze
and Guattari’s work evince a certain adversarial or protective tenor, implying a reluctance
to give over a certain space to the engagement, and perhaps rightly so, as the suspicion
that Western European male philosophers have either neglected, appropriated, or made
use of concepts concerning women for their own theoretical purposes has considerable
merit. Yet, with the publication of Deleuze and Feminist Theory (2000), we see a notable
desire for more positive engagements with Deleuze’s philosophy. These essays provide
some of the clearest examples of how to put Deleuzian concepts to work within and
alongside feminist theory, as well as providing accounts of the positive stakes involved
in thinking Deleuze alongside feminist figures such as Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva,
and Hélène Cixous. Even while acknowledging the anxiety that Deleuze’s philosophy
has evoked within feminism,1 the overall spirit of the book is one of affirmation, to
produce an encounter between the two that “might give feminist thought a new way of
proceeding” (Colebrook 2000: 15) and to explore potential overlaps between Deleuzian
thought and feminist prerogatives. If it is the case that Deleuze’s philosophy and
feminism share a mutual tendency to understand the general purpose of philosophy as
practical and generative rather than merely reactive and oppositional (see Colebrook
2000), then the question that both Deleuze and feminists have in common is what can
philosophical concepts do? Further, what types of interventions are necessary and what
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Introduction
can philosophy (or feminism, or subjectivity) become? Given this prerogative, it is easy
to see why feminists have primarily focused on the concept of becoming (woman) in
Deleuze and Guattari’s work. Indeed, this is one of the recurrent interests of many of
the contributions to this original volume, and rightly so. There are contributors in our
collection who certainly address this crucial concept (such as Kit Sze Chan in Chapter 10
and Mackenzie in Chapter 15), but we also envision that by insisting on the guiding
theme of schizoanalysis, this collection can add a new trajectory to these discussions.
Almost two decades later, it is time to revisit this relationship in light of the important
developments within feminism itself. It is clear that feminism has provided crucially
important critiques of phenomenology, ontology and epistemology through the
insertion of concerns for materiality, embodiment, intersubjectivity, the environment,
and sexuality, and that it has been at the forefront of these discussions. This has led
to an enormous proliferation of theoretical applications, which have been invoked and
developed under the auspices of the relatively new disciplines such as new materialism,
posthumanism, affect studies, and de-colonial and global feminisms. Many of these
theoretical innovations were just being digested at the beginning of the new millennia,
and our contributors are responding to, critiquing, and expanding questions, themes,
and problems that have arisen in light of them.
It is also the case that the reception of Deleuze’s philosophy has become increasingly
more positive, sometimes concerning just those issues that were once sticking points.
For instance, in a 2012 interview, Braidotti insists, “Deleuze’s work is of high relevance
for feminism: not only does he display a great empathy with issues of difference,
sexuality and transformation, but he also invests the site of the feminine with positive
force” (Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012: 23). The concerns of many feminist scholars
for embedded and embodied accounts of post and nonhuman subjectivity also provide
potential sites of alliance with a Deleuzoguattarian philosophy of immanence and
materialist vitalism.2 In fact, the mechanics of transformation implied in Deleuze
and Guattari’s ontology of becoming aligns with the feminist imperative of exploring
the potential for new forms of subjectivity that privilege relationality, becoming, and
materiality rather than identification, representation, and linguistic performativity.
The implications of a pre-personal and molecular desire also align with posthumanist
feminist philosophies that seek to expand our understanding of our relation to the
environment and our ultimate imbrication within the web of impersonal and cosmic
becomings.3 Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage has been used to enhance
discussions of relationality and to assess different modalities of experience and, in fact,
assemblage theory has become another point of alliance for creative and critical feminist
enterprises.4 Moreover, many transnational feminists propose the transgression/
crossing of borders, both theoretical and literally, as a central to their practice,5 and the
Deleuzoguattarian language of deterritorialization could be a powerful theoretical tool
(ally) in clarifying and conceptualizing how border theories expose and detach from
Western European prerogatives and constrictive territorialities) (see Sholtz’s Chapter 8).
This volume provides a space for many new scholars to encounter Deleuze and Guattari’s
work through the lenses of these proliferations in feminist philosophy and to revisit
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Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism
these initial positions, in light of the various transformations and developments. Finally,
it is important to consider the increased interest in Deleuze and Guattari’s work over the
last several decades, which has spawned an enormous explosion of commentaries that
have increased awareness and understanding of their philosophical project. All of these
reasons lead us to the conclusion that the time is right for this intervention, one that we
might call a creative repetition, as it traverses the familiar territory of the reception of
Deleuze and Guattari, but with a difference.
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