ABSTRACT
This introduction presents on overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book considers the limits in political theory by showing how the space for the thought of politics and suicide is carved out and disputed in and beyond Deleuze and Guattari's work. It elucidates Deleuze and Guattari conversations and transmissions with contemporaries and critics so as to delineate the space for the thought of a suicidal politics. The book examines the Foucault's writings on Blanchot's concept of the Outside, which play a central role in Deleuze's activist reading of his work into a vitalist politics of desire. It presents a brief survey of the political theoretical tradition, in representative forms, which illustrates the experimental or exploratory approach. The book identifies the troubling relationship between fascist suicide and revolutionary politics posited here, as well as in the work of Deleuze and Guattari's principle critic, Alain Badiou.
