Deleuze, Marx and Politics

Nicholas Thoburn

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A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural
points of resonance between Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of
capitalist dynamics, Deleuze, Marx and Politics is the first book to engage
with Deleuze's missing work, The Grandeur of Marx.Following Deleuze's call for an interpretation that draws new relations and
connections, this book explores the core categories of communism and capital in
conjunction with a wealth of contemporary and historical political concepts and
movements — from the lumpenproletariat and anarchism to Italian autonomia and
Antonio Negri, immaterial labour and the refusal of work. Drawing on literary
figures such as Kafka and Beckett, Deleuze, Marx and Politics develops a
politics that breaks with the dominant frameworks of post-Marxism and
one-dimensional models of resistance towards a concern with the inventions,
styles and knowledges that emerge through minority engagement with social flows
and networks. This book is also an intervention in contemporary debates about
new forms of identity and community, information technology and the
intensification of work.

This book will serve as an introduction to Deleuze's politics and the
contemporary vitality of Marx for students and will challenge scholars in the
fields of social and political theory, sociology and cultural studies.

[Nicholas Thoburn teaches in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College,
University of London.]