Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Philosophy, Science, and Virtual Communism

Philosophy, Science, and Virtual Communism AbstractThis paper considers how science, philosophy, and “the virtual” inform the political potential of the communism that emerges within capitalism. It looks to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in particular What is Philosophy?, to set the terms of an anti-capitalist science and philosophy. Their understanding of the contrasting roles of the virtual in science and philosophy is then used to draw points of distinction between the theories of Manuel DeLanda, Jason Read, and Maurizio Lazzarato. DeLanda's work demonstrates the uses of science, specifically the non-linear tracking of emergent phenomena. Read's work demonstrates the uses of philosophy, specifically the historical tracing of the capitalist mode of production. And Lazzarato's work demonstrates a combination of philosophy and science, specifically the theoretical identification of becomings not captured by capitalism. Throughout, the paper employs Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the “the virtual” to map the potentiality of communism within capitalism as suggested by these three approaches. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

Philosophy, Science, and Virtual Communism

Culp, Andrew
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 20 (4): 17 – Oct 2, 2015
Download PDF

Philosophy, Science, and Virtual Communism

Abstract

AbstractThis paper considers how science, philosophy, and “the virtual” inform the political potential of the communism that emerges within capitalism. It looks to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in particular What is Philosophy?, to set the terms of an anti-capitalist science and philosophy. Their understanding of the contrasting roles of the virtual in science and philosophy is then used to draw points of distinction between the theories of Manuel DeLanda,...
Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/philosophy-science-and-virtual-communism-q3pUlD4iwr
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2015 Taylor & Francis
ISSN
1469-2899
eISSN
0969-725X
DOI
10.1080/0969725X.2015.1096633
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

AbstractThis paper considers how science, philosophy, and “the virtual” inform the political potential of the communism that emerges within capitalism. It looks to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in particular What is Philosophy?, to set the terms of an anti-capitalist science and philosophy. Their understanding of the contrasting roles of the virtual in science and philosophy is then used to draw points of distinction between the theories of Manuel DeLanda, Jason Read, and Maurizio Lazzarato. DeLanda's work demonstrates the uses of science, specifically the non-linear tracking of emergent phenomena. Read's work demonstrates the uses of philosophy, specifically the historical tracing of the capitalist mode of production. And Lazzarato's work demonstrates a combination of philosophy and science, specifically the theoretical identification of becomings not captured by capitalism. Throughout, the paper employs Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the “the virtual” to map the potentiality of communism within capitalism as suggested by these three approaches.

Journal

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 2, 2015

Keywords: philosophy; science; materialism; Marxism; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

References

  • The Infinite Contradiction
  • Deleuzian Interrogations: A Conversation with Manuel DeLanda, John Protevi & Torkild Thanem
  • Nonlinear Historical Materialism and Postmodern Marxism
  • Local Solidarity: Historical and Contemporary Experiments in Socially Responsive Business Development
  • Biopolitics/Bioeconomics: A Politics of Multiplicity
  • The Concepts of Life and the Living in the Societies of Control
  • From Capital-Labour to Capital-Life
  • From Knowledge to Belief, from Critique to the Production of Subjectivity
  • Lutté, Événement, Medias
  • The Political Form of Coordination
  • Primitive Accumulation: The Aleatory Foundation of Capitalism
  • A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism
  • The Crazy Before the New
  • The End of the World as We Know It
  • The Lexicon of Postfordism: Introduction to the Collection Lessico Postfordista