ABSTRACT
Deleuze and Guattari’s analysis disrupts and reconfigures the assumed philosophical contexts through which we come to understand and shape our worlds. Not least, they throw into question the space of the political as produced by Hobbes through practices of sovereignty. Their challenge is to see things anew, to loosen the hold that modes of thought and inherited understandings impose upon our imaginations and our theorizing, and so to create new possibilities for understanding and responding to our worlds. Crucially, however, this is not work that they can do on our behalf: we are left with the necessity of doing the same kind of work on our own immediate contexts. Also crucially, this is not work that can be done primarily in and through the abstractions of philosophical tradition. Deleuze and Guattari leave us with the imperative not only to theorize differently than we have been taught, in particular to think rhizomatically, disruptively, creatively, but also to connect in particular to struggles over axioms, and the axiomatic.
