Resisting Financialization With Deleuze And Guattari (routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy)

__Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari__ aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas: the understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. Using a critical perspective, this book is informed by a Marxian literature in political economy and the poststructuralist works of Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault. Through this, the author argues that it is relevant to combine Marxism and poststructuralism so as to better understand financialization. The analysis of resistance to financialization also provides a reflection on social democracy and Occupy Wall Street as contrasting ways to resist capitalism. Finally, this book will contribute to the analysis of Deleuze and Guattari through an analysis of their reception within political philosophy. This book provides the intellectual tools needed by academics in order to articulate a critical and revolutionary interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as analyse their reception by political philosophy. It also offers these tools to a more general audience interested in political economy and capitalism. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 9 Author’s note 10 1 Introduction 12 Deleuze and Guattari and financialization 12 Objectives 13 Reading Deleuze and Guattari 14 Buggery by Deleuze and Guattari? 17 Analysis of the reception of Deleuze and Guattari 19 The methodology of the reception of Deleuze and Guattari 22 Applying my Deleuzo-Guattarian reception study to financialization 25 List of chapters 27 PART I 32 2 The elitist interpretation of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari 34 Introduction 34 The philosophy of Badiou 35 The elitist interpretation of Žižek 43 The interpretation of Hallward 48 Mengue’s elitist interpretation of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari 53 The challenging critique of Deleuze and Guattari from the perspective of feminist identity politics 56 Butler’s historicist critique of Deleuze and Guattari 58 Conclusion 59 3 The liberal interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari 60 Introduction 60 The liberal interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari by liberal philosophy: Deleuze and Guattari the friends 60 Saving Deleuze and Guattari from the left 68 The liberal interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari by Marxism: Deleuze and Guattari the enemies 71 Jameson’s ambiguous liberal interpretation: Deleuze and Guattari between the market and revolution 75 Boltanski and Chiapello’s ambiguous liberal interpretation: Deleuze and Guattari recuperated by capitalism 78 De Landa's liberal ambiguous interpretation: the flat ontology of Deleuze and Guattari 84 Conclusion 85 4 The revolutionary interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari 87 Introduction 87 The revolutionary interpretation of Massumi 88 The revolutionary interpretation of Thoburn 92 Autonomist readings of Deleuze and Guattari 97 The Marxist revolutionary interpretation of Sibertin-Blanc 100 The Marxist revolutionary interpretation of Nunes 102 Stengers’s interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari 104 Non-Marxist revolutionary interpretations of Deleuze and Guattari 107 Conclusion 109 PART II 112 5 Understanding financialization 114 Introduction 114 A brief history of finance: from 1945 till the present day 115 Contemporary literature on fi nancialization 121 Politics of the financialization literature 134 Conclusion 139 6 Anticipating financialization 141 Introduction 141 Foucault and the analysis of neoliberalism 143 Deleuze and Guattari: anticipating financialization 149 Deleuzo-Guattarian disagreements 157 Deleuzo-Guattarian literature in finance studies 162 Conclusion 170 7 Resisting financialization 171 Introduction 171 Deleuzo-Guattarian critique of a social democratic response to financialization 173 Resisting financialization through horizontal politics 182 Conclusion 190 Concluding comments 193 References 197 Index 208