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This article, drawing its title from Everything Flows, discusses the ways in which Vasily Grossman's work can help in thinking about the problem of judging totalitarian perpetrators. Against Tzvetan Todorov's assertion that Grossman effects a general absolution of perpetrators though his stress on the paralysing power of the totalitarian state, it offers a more nuanced reading. Grossman seeks to present a human face to the work of judgement: one which does not elide the complexities inherent in judging wrongs. To be sure, he takes seriously the suffocating power of the state, but he establishes its culpability not in order to absolve individual perpetrators but in order to affirm the primary solidarity of humanity. Grossman's concept of 'humanity' emerges as a form of resistance to the state's ideological treatment of humankind, and thus forms the ethical core of his work. Crucially, however, this does not produce a simple prescription for the treatment of perpetrators or comprehensive guidelines for the assessment of guilt and innocence. What Grossman offers instead is an encounter with the agony of judgement.

A collection of essays on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the bodyUsing a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a truly multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement and literature.The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins and becoming in relation to power, creativity and affect. Key features Brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body Contributors include Ella Brians, Claire Colebrook, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Cutler, Patricia MacCormack, Iain MacKenzie, John Protevi, Peta Malins, Philipa Rothfield and Nathan Widder Of interest to those concerned with theories of the body and affectivity, and those interested in performance arts, film and contemporary culture