Deleuze and Space

Deleuze Connections

by Ian Buchanan (Editor), Gregg Lambert (Editor)

A cutting edge volume in the important series on Deleuzian philosophy Gilles Deleuze was arguably the twentieth century's most spatial philosopher - not only did he contribute a plethora of new concepts to engage space, space was his very means of doing philosophy. He said everything takes place on a plane of immanence, envisaging a vast desert-like space populated by concepts moving about like nomads. Deleuze made philosophy spatial and gave us the concepts of smooth and striated, nomadic and sedentary, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, the fold, as well as many others to enable us to think spatially. This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy and metaphysics. In doing so, it brings together some of the most accomplished Deleuze scholars writing today.

Genres: Philosophy

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Born in rural Western Australia, Buchanan grew up in the suburbs of Perth. He did his BA and PhD in the English and Comparative Literature program at Murdoch University, graduating in 1995. His PhD dissertation, entitled, "Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies" attempted to fuse the work of de Certeau and Deleuze for the purposes of doing cultural analysis

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first essay by Ian Buchanan was my favourite, discussing ‘frictionless’ space, and all the corridors, pit-stops, Starbucks and freeways that make up an indeterminate realm of nowhere spaces, resulting in the idea that “we swim through space more than we dwell there”, as well as Helene Frichot’s notion of the ‘architect as pickpocket’. Overall, the collection of essays is widely varied, which is ok, given the subject. A good way to understand the writings of Deleuze, but also architecture and philosophy in general.