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This book, a sequel to the first volume of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (2009), presents studies of 16 key figures drawn on by Deleuze, ranging from Lucretius to Schelling through to Foucault. Each chapter introduces the work of the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws on this work and discusses the contribution that it makes to the development of Deleuze's own ideas

AbstractBanaji's essays offer a powerful plea for a renewal of Marxism, a passionate argument to emancipate Marxism from the dead weight of vulgar traditions – with their simplifications, forced abstractions, mechanical reductions, generalised a-historical theorising, and familiar teleologies. To reinvigorate Marxism, argues Banaji, it is essential to use theory creatively, and recognise the need for complexity in thinking about categories. We cannot generalise about modes of production simply by referring to the forms of labour exploitation in the abstract: associate serfdom or coerced labour with feudalism, and free wage-labour with capitalism. Without historical research into the specific ways in which each economy works – its history and logic of operation – we cannot in the abstract characterise a mode of production: we only end up producing a formal evolutionary sequence of modes. Agreeing with the general thrust of the critique mounted in the book, this essay suggests that Banaji's own arguments often reproduce the binaries and linearities he opposes, and remain framed within certain forms of reductionism.

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's (2000) notion of Empire, defined as a decentered & deterritorialized model of global sovereignty produced by political & economic globalization processes, is critiqued. An overview of Hardt & Negri's conceptualization of Empire is presented, illustrating how the traditional dualisms of North/South & center/periphery have been reconfigured & how traditionally marginalized groups have used globalization processes to empower & liberate themselves. Nevertheless, problems with Hardt & Negri's identification of Empire as creating a "smooth space" in which to enact such reconfigurations & analysis of the respective roles that labor mobility & capital play in realizing more equitable conditions of production are identified. Additional attention is dedicated to questioning Hardt & Negri's assessment of the author's (1978) account of capitalism in early modern times & (1994) treatment of the systemic cycles of accumulation. The advantages of utilizing the author's understanding of accumulation processes are also discussed. 17 References. J. W. Parker

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics are being taken up and put to work across disciplinary divides and in interesting and surprising ways. However, the backbone of Deleuze's philosophy - the many and varied sources from which he draws the material for his conceptual innovation - has until now remained relatively obscure and unexplored

AbstractOur reply focuses on three key themes raised in the symposium. First, we discuss an enduring issue in Marxist International Relations: 'the problematic of the international' and the problems of methodological internalism. We examine how our interlocutors have responded to this problematic and why we consider these responses insufficient. Specifically, we suggest that the source of our disagreement is grounded in two divergent understandings of the problem of internalism itself. We then reassert the value of our chosen response to the problematic – uneven and combined development (UCD). Second, we respond to the criticism that our extension ofUCDas a 'transmodal' general abstraction is problematic by further explicating the significance and role of general abstractions in Marxist theory – a point yet addressed by our critics. Finally, we return to the fundamental question at the core of the transition debate: what is capitalism and how do we theorise it?