A Politics of Peripheries: Deleuze and Guattari as Dependency Theorists. Issue 1 (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weeks, Samuel
• Is Part Of: Deleuze and Guattari studies. Volume 13:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 79
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: Deleuze and Guattari -- A Thousand Plateaus -- dependency theory -- development -- alternative globalisations -- North–South; Philosophy, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 194
• DOI: 10.3366/dlgs.2019.0342
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2398-9777

Abstract

Abstract : Given that Deleuze and Guattari came to prominence after May 1968, many readers attempt to determine the political significance of their work. The difficulty that some encounter finding its political implications contrasts with Deleuze and Guattari's commitment to radical causes. In response, Patton and Thoburn elaborate on the Marxist elements in the pair's oeuvre, a line of analysis I continue. Focusing on A Thousand Plateaus, I discuss their references to the theorisation of the 'dependency theorists', a group of Marxist-inspired scholars who became influential during the 1960s. Does their engagement with dependency theory provide the basis for a political project?